Friday, Dec. 1 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: QUICKLY finish Modern Poem Teaching (4th block)

*American Voices groups:

*What is the American voice: your ‘group’ needs a few different ideas/definitions/aspects to definition –post this on Schoology, then follow the directions on what to do next.

*First Block: The opinions, beliefs, perspectives, choices, morals, and wishes expressed by those in America.  Influenced and shaped by current and past, large and small events as well as individual experiences.  These ideas expressed are demonstrating the ‘speaker’s’ opinions of the state of society and the individuals within it, covering the beliefs and opinions of the American people.

Fourth Block: The American Voice expresses the perspectives, morals, opinions, thoughts and feelings speakers have toward their country, the people in it and the views of others. Influenced by past and present events that changed America and Americans positively and negatively. The voice attempts to influence, change, and better society.

*Dickinson, Bradstreet, Thoreau/Emerson, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and other modern poets

*Overall Question: How does their writing exemplify the (or an) American voice?

*How does their writing show America at their point in time?

*What does their writing say about people and society?

*Thinking of all, what aspect(s) of America are not reflected in the voices so far?

*Write up on Schoology

*Large group on American Voice and Authors so far

*Current Poets Research Introduction: Nikki Giovanni, Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marilyn Hacker, Dana Gioia, Jack Kerouac, Pedro Pietri, Marc Smith, Taylor Mali, Robert Pinsky, Li Young, AND LOTS MORE TO CHOOSE FROM

*Go to blog for example

*Current Poetry Example

By Monday you need to know your poet and have picked out the three poems

*Explications (on paper) due Tuesday