Editing and Drafting Poetry

Sonnets...Who can you praise?

For HB: Take time to foucs on your habits. Make one choice to take control



Lesson Recap: Sonnets

H/W Draft of a sonnet for tomorrow

Student Sample

Not of Shining Stars

By: Joaquin de Jesus

Unlike the blazing glare of shining stars

The silent shade of trees surpasses all 

Reviving like the strumming of guitars

Singing the tranquil breeze of cooling fall

For Rest cannot simply be found but sought

It is a dove that’s shooting in and out

Through tempest seas, extreme canyons, and naught.

But that cannot be what Rest is about

Like the creeping shadow, and not the stars

For tis not the spring, but the windblown fall

The bandages that heal most painful scars

Restores the pain of day during nightfall

The journey home at the end of a quest

Nothing compares to the healing of Rest

Syllablic Verse and Poetry Party

Next Wednesday - Poetry Party Celebration - In the library

You will need to have two poems to share - One must be memorized. You will need to audition next Tuesday in order to receive an invite. You will receive on summative speaking grade for this audition (rubric on left side of blog) .If you do not get invited to the party, you will be given other work to complete. In order to receive an invite, you need to memorize a poem and practice delivering it with PIPES. You just need to prove that you put some effort into the preparation of your poems. The poetry parties will be multiple classes together. The poem you memorize could be one you have worked on before. Any poems you have already drafted can be used at the end. It is expected that you will edit and redraft 'with poets eyes' 

RECAP
Students are encouraged to bring in food and drinks to eat and share at the party.

• One poem must be one you have written yourself
• One poem must be a a published poem (written by another author)
• Author's note needs to be prepared for each poem

Resource :http://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems - + look at the links on my blog on the left side for poems. Finals of the recitation competition will also happen on this day.

Use this to count your syllables
http://writeahaiku.com/ counts syllables

H/W Do not forget that your Extended Metaphor Poems are due Thur - Syllablic verse poems due FriALL classes!
C/D Class Extended Metaphor
E/F Class Extended Metaphor

Poetry: Advanced Figurative Langauge

Recap of Lesson - Defining Figurative Language

Advanced Figurative Language

H/W - Due THUR

Poem should be approx. 16 lines long. (Could be longer but not shorter)

Must be turned in on a slide to the link below e.g.

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C/D Class Extended Metaphor

E/F Class Extended Metaphor

Use this image to help you find ideas for the 'A' side of the metaphor

I will give you 15mins to work on it in class tomorrow too.

Enjoy Laney's TriTime Video

This week

TriTime - End of Unit Reflection

Congratulations on your TriTime presentations today. Just because our unit is over, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't continue to follow your passions. ...Continue to 'change your world!'

Updates:

• Make sure you have your reading book. 
• Read for 30mins each night. 
• 20mins of Membean at home this week (40mins in total)
• POscars continue this week. BE READY!

Tomorrow we do the second half of our poetry unit. We will began by looking at advanced figurative language.