Honors - Due Tuesday
1. Add to your wordpool.
By Tuesday, your wordpool should have at least 50-100 words.
You might try random books, field guides, manuals for operating…
2. Create 2 new wordpool poems. (3 total)
3. Choose 1 poem, revise, and type. (at least 20-24 lines)
4. Write, write, write: Try any of the writing practice Susan Woodridge suggests (see excerpt from poemcrazy pp. 203-205).
Learning Objectives for today's lesson:
As we celebrate the National Day of Silence, today's learning activities are designed for everybody to participate. Beginning with developing a working definition of poetry, strengthening it with criteria (What is poetry? What makes a poem a poem?), we engaged in "written conversation," passing our Writer's Notebooks around the room.
Then we created "wordpools " on big paper and circulated around the room to add our own words to the wordpools. ("stolen words," "sound words," "imaginary made-up words," etc.)
We concluded with creating a "wordpool" poem.
1. Add to your wordpool.
By Tuesday, your wordpool should have at least 50-100 words.
You might try random books, field guides, manuals for operating…
2. Create 2 new wordpool poems. (3 total)
3. Choose 1 poem, revise, and type. (at least 20-24 lines)
4. Write, write, write: Try any of the writing practice Susan Woodridge suggests (see excerpt from poemcrazy pp. 203-205).
Learning Objectives for today's lesson:
- To develop a working definition of poetry
- To create word pools
- To create wordpool poems
As we celebrate the National Day of Silence, today's learning activities are designed for everybody to participate. Beginning with developing a working definition of poetry, strengthening it with criteria (What is poetry? What makes a poem a poem?), we engaged in "written conversation," passing our Writer's Notebooks around the room.
Then we created "wordpools " on big paper and circulated around the room to add our own words to the wordpools. ("stolen words," "sound words," "imaginary made-up words," etc.)
We concluded with creating a "wordpool" poem.