12.03 - Poem Message and Imagery / Noodletools Sign Up

At the beginning of class today, everyone practiced reading their poem out loud for three minutes. In doing this, everyone was encouraged to read the poem once through and then repeat reading it until time was up or repeat specific sections until the end of the 3 minutes.

Next, we returned to working with the illustrated stanza sheet for the Poetry Out Loud poems people have selected. Today, we focused on the question on the back at the bottom of the sheet:

Identify some key images from the poem that you feel are important to the overall meaning of the poem.
Describe how these images enhance the overall meaning of the poem.

 

In class we discussed how these responses should contain the following pieces of information:

1- Identify and explain the theme/message of the poem (using examples from the poem).

2 - Two images/moments that are key to understanding/appreciating this theme.

3 - Discussion of why these images/moments are key to understanding this theme.

 

Everyone had about 20 minutes to respond to this question. 

 

We then went down to the library to get everyone signed up on Noodletools for our research project related to people's projects. In the sign up, everyone used the following information:

MLA - advanced for citation style

Project Names = FirstName LastName - Project (Senior Citizen Outreach, Ice Rink Renovation, or Winter Clothing Drive)

Projects were shared with the drop box "Civic Action 2013"

 

Homework:

If you did not do so in class, finish the processing question on the back of your illustrated stanza sheet for your poem.

 

Practice your Poetry Out Loud poem.

 

Work associated with your project as appropriate.  

Complete missing work and revise any assignment that scored below a 92.

 

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