Tuesday October 27, 2009

Comp/Lit 9: Introduction to Poetry

• I collected the Short Story Culminating Project.
• The students completed a quick review for the Commonly Confused Words accept, except-can, may.
• I introduced the Committed to Memory Assignment. The students will need to memorize (at minimum) a 15 line poem to be recited on Tuesday November 10.
• I passed out the Introduction to Poetry Packet
• I introduced the Poetry Term Poster. Each student was assigned a different word and will create a poster to be presented to the class.
• We started with poetry today.
• The students brainstormed ideas about poetry and wrote them on the board.
• We read Billy Collins' "Introduction to Poetry" and completed the Poetry Analysis for the poem.
• We read "What is Poetry?" by T.S. Elliot, and "What is a Poet?" by e.e. cummings
• We ended the period by reading "What is Poetry?" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The students got into groups of four and wrote a 10 line poem about poetry.
• Homework: Find a poem to memorize for the Committed to Memory assignment, study the commonly confused words (capitol, capital-fourth, forth); create the poster for the assigned poetry term; complete the poetry analysis for one of 5 poems of your choice on pages 17-18 in the poetry packet.