You must have at least one of your poems MEMORIZED by Wed.
You will need to recite the poem to me privately.
You must speak of the poetic moves in the poem.
You will receive SUMMATIVE craft grade for your poetic moves and a speaking and listening grade (PIPES) for this poem. This poem can be a group poem (paired)
Rubrics are on left side of the blog.
Most of Tuesday's class will be spent revising your poems and preparing for this.
Sentence Fluency Test - Next WED - Spend 5 mins each night doing some of these exercises
HB CHALLENGE - Find out who these people are, meet them, and come next Friday telling the HB what you think we should do for them. If you need any HB time to work on this - Monday is available. Will you rise to the challenge?
Lesson Recap Figurative Language A=B means C
To build an 'extended metaphor'
1) Start with an anchor metaphor - My life ain't no crystal stair
2) Brainstorm words, verbs, phrases, adjectives associated with A and B side of the metaphor
3) Build the lists into lines of poetry using one from the A and B side
4) Craft the lines into poetry using other poetic devices
5) Revise, edit, and publish into files below
You poem uses a single 'anchor' metaphor and continues to 'extend' that metaphor throughout the poem
Other metaphors that are linked to the anchor metaphor can be clearly identified in the poem
Your poem communicates a message/idea. - e.g. My life ain't no crystal stair - the idea is that she has had a tough life, but never gave up and kept reaching other goals.
Poetry format and structure with an effective title
Minimum 16 lines
This assignment is simply testing whether you can write a poem that contains an extended metaphor. Remember, not every line needs to be a metaphor.
Mentor Poem: Remember your last poem? Many of you still need to turn in your last poem that spoke about your poetic moves. Nicholas did a really impressive job here talking about the different moves he made in his poem.
