POETRY UNIT 2015

AGENDA  Dialectical Journal- Gallery Walk/ Peer Evaluation and Justification  Poetry Unit Commences  Ready, Set, Choose Your Poet….

DIALECTICAL JOURNAL  Choose your best Key Passage  Star your best entry (make it obvious)  Pass to someone else who will be marking your entry (This does not mean that I will not be marking the entry as well)  You should make edits as you read (asking questions, fixing sentences/typos etc)  On a Q card, which you will staple to the entry, you must explain why you gave the mark that you did. What is something that they could do better and continue to do in the future?

WHY DO WE PEER EVALUATE 1. You become familiar with the rubrics 2. You get to read another person’s essay, which is incredibly valuable 3. You get a gauge of where your mark is 4. I get to see different perspectives when I mark Essentially we should mark very similarly based on the rubric

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POETRY STUDY THEME

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POET STUDY  Poetry project 1. Include a glossary of relevant poetic devices at the beginning of your project 2. Write a response to each poem on the back of the poems that you print out that shows insight and uses quotations and details to support what you are saying about the poem 3. Discuss the author's use of language, imagery, symbol, and tone. 4. Use appropriate literary terms when discussing and writing about the poems in your responses and in your final paper. 5. Write a 3-5 page analytical essay in which you explicate one of the author’s poems, providing details from the text to support your insights on theme and literary merit. 6. Finally using your author as a model, you will be required to write three poems that illustrate your understanding of this author, his writing style and his works

CHOOSING YOUR POET Tasks: 1. Review the list of poets 2. Select 3 poems and save them, print them out. 3. Annotate all 3

AGENDA  Sign Up for your poet  Poetic Device Review- Jeopardy style  Annotation…  Selection of poem for project

POEMS LIKE… A Radio With Guts -Buckowski it was on the 2nd floor on Coronado Street I used to get drunk and throw the radio through the window while it was playing, and, of course, it would break the glass in the window and the radio would sit there on the roof still playing and I'd tell my woman, "Ah, what a marvelous radio!" Still I Rise - Maya Angelou You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries.

WHO’S YOUR POET AND WHICH 6 POEMS WILL YOU CHOOSE?  You will be choosing 6 poems to annotate form your poet.  You will annotate all of these poems thoroughly  Poetic Devices and explanation  Opinions and Questions  Unknown words/ ambiguous concepts  Interpretation  For 5 of these poems you will be writing a personal response (one paragraph long).

Touched By An Angel by Maya Angelou We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

RESPONSE GOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS…  The poem Touched by an Angel by Maya Angelou is about love and how love can impact and change one’s life. I think this poem speaks about how we are all afraid to fall in love, but once we do it is like unlike anything we have ever felt before. Love is a very powerful thing that can liberate us and bring our souls to life. Angelou writes about how falling in love can be scary as it can being out both the best and the worst in a person, but once one finds the courage to take the first step towards love they will never regret it. Angelou symbolizes love with an angel coming into one’s life. This poem made me feel very happy and passionate because it is flowery and light and has a very joyful tone. I really like this poem because it is so positive and blissful. This poem can brighten your day just by spending a few minutes reading it. I can personally connect to this poem because there are many people in my life who love me and I deeply love back. I don’t know what I would do without all my amazing friends and family who I adore.

TASKS AND DUE DATES  Personal Responses for 5/6 of your poem  Typed  Single spaced  Attached to the back of the poem that you annotated.  Stapled together  Personal Responses are due Tuesday March 31 st – You must submit them, but if you need your poems to look at for the next part of the project they will be kept in the classroom for you.

AGENDA  Laptops- the lab was stolen….  The last day to work on Personal Response: Due Tomorrow (Tuesday)  Title page with: Poet’s Name, your name, class and due date  5 poems fully annotated – on their separate pages  5 personal response paragraphs which are on the back of each poem.  Biographical Essay – Annotated Bibliography

POETRY STUDY: PART TWO  Biographical Essay  Where did these poems come from?  Your task is to gain a very specific understanding of the historical time period, social influences, and individual perspective of the author you choose to study. You will write a re paper that connects the author’s works (poems) with his life. In other words, you will show the parallels between the themes, patterns and events he writes about in his works and his own life, which inspired him write about those specific themes, patterns and events.

LINKING SOCIAL CONTEXT TO POET’S WORK  Allen Ginsberg   American poet, leading figures in Beat Generation in 1950’s  Not dissimilar to Ken Kesey  Anti-authoritarian, materialism and sexual repression 

BEAT GENERATION  Post- WW2 writers:  Rejection of received standards, use of illegal drugs, examining religion, rejection of materialism  Bohemian Hedonists  The central figures of the Beat Generation met in San Francisco and then grew in NYC  Racism was still institutionalized- Harlem was a slum, taken advantage of  Sexual repression was common place

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