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Agenda: Check-in Collection Covers and Collection/Slam Aesthetics  Sample Collections and Poetry Performances HW: RJ 16.4 read for 20-30 minutes and record. Get RJs signed. Turn in Collections and Slam Videos Hey  y'all . I'm heading in to Emerson today to pack up my classroom. It's got me feeling all kinds of sad. I hope your morning is going well.  Zoom today is at 1. Bring questions you might have about the end of NaPoWriMo.  Check-in question: where are you going to high school?  Ok, today let's talk about collection covers: Here are a few samples. Make something artful! Think about the aesthetics in your slam pieces as well. Everything is art! During our Zoom, I'll show you a few poetry slam performances from last year. I'm not posting them here because they would hate me for it.  I've loved seeing Poetry Slam pieces as they come in. Makes me miss y'all so much! Do something nice for your teachers. It's Teache...

Agenda: Check-in 15-week Grades and Graduation Requirements Table of Contents Tech shares for putting together collections/poetry HW: RJ 16.3 read for 20-30 minutes and record.  Poetry  collections, Poetry Slam pieces, and RJs due Friday.  Morning all. Zoom today at 9:00 and 10:15.  Check-in: How are you feeling about virtual graduations? Have you seen this?  15-week grades are due Friday. Our graduation requirements haven't changed, but the district grading policy has. What does this mean for you? You can't get a fail is spring, so check your final Fall report card and count the fails and Us. Also, grades can't be lower than your ten week so check what that is. For Spring grades and graduation, you need to pay careful attention to the Us. More than 4 and you can't participate in graduation.  Assignments to add to your 15 week grades:    If you haven't completed your Table of Contents yet, make su...

Agenda: Check-in Writing Your Introduction HW: RJ 16.2 read for 20-30 minutes and record.  Good morning, y'all and happy early Tuesday. Today is also Cinco de Mayo which recognizes an unlikely victory by Mexico over the French in Pueblo. So if you're celebrating, enjoy, and don't be racist. If you aren't sure what this would entail, we can discuss, but most of y'all seem smarter than the average person on issues of race and cultural appreciation v. appropriation. Today's Zoom class is short for Tuesday at 1:00.  Ok, for our check-in question: what are you reading?  Today we're going to work on writing our introductions.  In your introduction you can tell a little about the context of your poems. You can write about how you feel about poetry and who inspired poetry during this time. Here is my sample for this yea r:  Write your introductions today and putting your collections together. I'll se...

Agenda: Check-in Q - Q - Song Revision  Strategies for NaPoWriMo HW: RJ 16.1 read for 20-30 minutes and record.  Happy Monday,  y'all  and May the Fourth be with you. Our Zoom classes today are at 9:00 and 10:15. See you there.  Check-In: How has time been passing for you? Quickly, slowly, both? Something else?  Our quote this week: "Do. Or do not. There is no try." Yoda  What does this Jedi master mean?  Our question: How do you create balance in your life" Song: "Optimistic" by Radiohead What is this song about? Favorite Lyric?  Ok, so this week you are getting your collections together.  Try to revise your poems. Read through each draft and think about:  1) Titles? Dedications? Line breaks? Stanzas? 2) Take out all unnecessary words. 3) Read it aloud and listen for sounds (rhyme, alliteration, assonance, rhythm, word choice). 4) Notice what your poem is ab...

Agenda: Check-in "To the Young Who Want to Die" by Gwendolyn Brooks Prompts for the last day of NaPoWriMo HW: RJ 15.1- 15.4 get signature and turn in tomorrow Submit drafts of 20-30 poems Hey  y'all . Our Zoom is today at 1:00. See you there! Check-in: How do you feel about the end of NaPoWriMo? Will you participate in  Poem in Your Pocket Day ? It's worth 10-20 points extra credit. Click the link for ideas.   Today's poem:   Read through the poem 3-4 times (preferably out loud) or listen to the poet reading it (link is above).   What feeling/tone do you get from the poem?  What is it about?  What poetic elements do you notice happening in this poem?  Annotate and make sense of this poem. Prompts: Write about reasons to live.  From Winter Tangerine: "Write an ode to your heart." And from  Writer's Digest : " For today’s prompt, take the phrase “Total (blank),” replace the blank with a...

Agenda: Check-in "Learning to Love America" by  Shirley  Geok-Lin Lim Prompts for NaPoWriMo Day #29 HW: RJ 15.3 on a poem.  Read a poem and write a poem. Tomorrow is our last day of NaPoWriMo! Make sure you turn in poetry drafts tomorrow and RJs Friday! Our Zoom's today are at 9:00 and 10:15. See you there! Oh, and check for new codes on Schoology today.  Check-in: How does poetry work  differently  than prose?  Our poem today is: Read through the poem 3-4 times (preferably out loud) or listen to the poet reading it (link is above).   What feeling/tone do you get from the poem?  What is it about?  What poetic elements do you notice happening in this poem?  Annotate and make sense of this poem. Prompts: Write about learning to love something like  Shirley  Geok-Lin Lim does about America.  From  Winter Tangerine : "Create a word; then define it." From  Wri...

Agenda: Check-in "It's Not Your Job" by Caitlyn Siehl Prompts for NaPoWriMo Day #28 HW: RJ 15.2 on a poem.  Read a poem and write a poem.  Zoom class today from 1:00 - 1:30. See you there.  Check-in: What is a quality you don't feel like you have but that you really admire in a friend?   Read through the poem 3-4 times (preferably out loud) or listen to the poet reading it (link is above).   What feeling/tone do you get from the poem?  What is it about?  What poetic elements do you notice happening in this poem?  Annotate and make sense of this poem. Prompts: Write about something you think the world thinks you should be but you see as "n ot your job" or write a birthday poem for me (today's my birthday). A poem is just about the best gift I can get! From  Winter Tangerine : "Write instructions for falling in love." And from Writer's Digest: " For today’s prompt, write a massive poem. Th...