ENGLISH 7

Friday, April 8, 2016

Handed in that worksheet and activity.

Completed that test on Chapters 5 & 6. 

Picked up worksheet for Chapter 7.

Graded that test.

Read Chapter 7. Group work on 7 when each person is done reading to the end of novel. Yo will get more time on group work on Chapter 7 on Monday.

ENGLISH 8

Friday, April 8, 2016

A Muslim and Jewish girls’ bold poetry slam

QW: From the poems and what you heard people talk about. React/respond to one -- either of the speaker or the poem. You can also use the one you just saw. Fill one page.Hand it in. Can tape in notebooks next week.

Discuss Found Poem--handouts. Find  yours. Found poetry -- Change the purpose of a poem simply by changing its context.

Try it with a partner.

“Happy poets who write found poetry go pawing through popular culture like sculptors on trash heaps. They hold and wave aloft usable artifacts and fragments: jingles and ad copy, menus and broadcasts ..By entering a found text as a poem, the poet doubles its context. The original meaning remains intact, but now it swings between two poles. The poet adds, or at any rate increases, the element of delight. This is an urban, youthful, ironic, cruising kind of poetry. ”

— Annie Dillard

Get a poetry book. Begin looking at poems. Sign it out, please.

Take it home. Continue reading and looking for favorite poems.

Eventually, you will have to find five of them that mean something to you, explain what they mean, and recite by memory one of them. (Hint, hint, final poetry project.)

HW:  Mon : Found Poem work