Performance Slam Poem (Group); Gathering 5-10 poem drafts (lab)

Period 3:

Please get together with your performance slam group and rehearse your slam poem. We will perform these poems FROM MEMORY next week.

Each slam poem should:

• each member of your group MUST speak/participate for full credit on this assignment
• poems should have gestures/physical movements (blocking) that enhance the poem
• poems must be memorized

See the rubric for more details about how you will be graded on this performance next week.  Please use period 3 to prepare and rehearse your original group slam poem. See previous posts for details. 

Period 4:

Return to the lab to complete the following task:

• Find 5-10 of your original poems that you have written in the past many weeks (From Oct. 30 until now...) See our blog posts for the last five weeks for details. 
• Type the best drafts of your poems up and gather them together in one SINGLE google file. One poem per page is fine. Use the INSERT PAGE BREAK tool to align your work correctly.
• Starting next class, you will be sharing your poem drafts with 4-5 other students in the class.
• Use the internet to find 1-3 pictures/photos/illustrations/graphics, etc. from the internet and include these drawings/art pieces in your google file.
• Revise your poems to include imagery! Avoid telling--instead: show the story through the senses! [specific nouns and active verbs, metaphors, similes, personification, allusion, symbol, figurative language helps create visual imagery!]
• Make sure you proofread and punctuate your poems correctly. 
• Each poem should have a title. If you don't have a title, use the first line of your poem as the title, or write: "Untitled" (and now it's titled!)
• When you have completed this, please share your google file with me: bradley.craddock@rcsdk12.org

NOTE: You will be assigned to specific groups to gather your work in a literary magazine project next class. 

HOMEWORK: None. You may continue writing in your journal or writing poem drafts.