Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Tuesday, April 26 Agenda



*Bell Ringer: Modern Era Review

*How to Explicate a Poem  (handout + practice/example)

*Movements of Modern Era poetry: Notes and group work (new poetry packet)

Assigned Groups:
  • Read all poems together, then:
  • With your group, plan if any research needs to be done before you present, then do it if necessary
  • Work time on poems: you will TEACH them tomorrow:
  • Annotate, teach (explain in detail) anything/everything you think needs explaining, meanings (literal and figurative), poetic devices, background, connection to Modern Era and poetic movements

*Things to Teach:
  • What is the poem about? Surface (what happens in the poem, story)? Deeper (theme, message, big picture)? (If also in a text book, what are some of the questions the book asks?)
  • What is the emotion of the poem? 
  • Is there any pattern (word, rhyme, image, etc)? 
  • Is there a format? (What does it look like, mechanics, line breaks, etc)
  • What poetry terms are used in the poem? How do they contribute to the meaning?
  • Alliteration, symbolism, personification, rhyme, repetition, figurative language (simile, metaphor, imagery), allusions, others?
  • What rules does the poem follow or break?
  • What characteristics from our notes can be seen in the poem? How does it fit into this era? (imagism, free-verse, objectivism, etc)
  • (Page 4 folks…) Ars Poetica: a statement by the poet about poetry, about his or her beliefs about what poetry is and about what it does. What does the poem demonstrate about poetry? 




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