Good Afternoon,
*No Red Ink: Thesis Statements
*Inspiration Poems: These are due tomorrow, Thursday November 21st, 2019. Please remember to do citations for any photos, video clips or music!
*Spoken Word: You have time to work on these….but first, let’s share out our synonyms from yesterday.
Good Afternoon,
Spoken Word Activities:
*Techniques for Creating Word Play
*Word Play Activity
How are we making out on our Inspiration Poems? Don’t forget to cite your sources.
Time for the following:
1) Inspiration Poems
2) Spoken Word
Good Afternoon,
*Inspiration Poems: Due on Thursday November 21st. How are we making out?
*Spoken Word: Brainstorming activitiy
Warm up spoken word free write activity: Practice writing with imagery that includes all five senses. Students describe an abstract or intangible entity using all senses: what do they look, sound, smell, taste and feel like?
Examples: Choose 2 of the following examples and write for five minutes each using imagery/sensory language.
a. homesickness
b. grief
c. love
d. joy
e. emptiness
f. time
g. envy
Good Afternoon,
-We will be working on Spoken word: we will look at a few samples of Rants…
Warm up spoken word free write activity: Practice writing with imagery that includes all five senses. Students describe an abstract or intangible entity using all senses: what do they look, sound, smell, taste and feel like?
Examples: Choose 2 of the following examples and write for five minutes each using imagery/sensory language.
a. homesickness
b. grief
c. love
d. joy
e. emptiness
f. time
g. envy
Good Afternoon,
*You can organize how you use your time. You can work on either of our two ongoing assignments:
a) Inspiration Poem
b) Spoken Word
Good Afternoon,
*No Red Ink: Pronoun Case
*You can organize how you use your time. You can work on either of our two ongoing assignments:
a) Inspiration Poem
b) Spoken Word
Good Afternoon,
*Just a heads up…spoken word finals are on Thursday December 4th. Usually class finalists need to be chosen several days before this date. If you are really ambitious you can start to give this some thought…we will be starting this week…
-spoken word criteria
poetry-slam-and-performing-poetry
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Sarah Key
“Jellyfish”
“Hands”
“When Love Arrives”
“Somewhere in America”
Taylor Mali “What do teachers make?”
Martin Luther King
-We will be working on Spoken word: we will look at a few samples of Rants…
Warm up spoken word free write activity: Practice writing with imagery that includes all five senses. Students describe an abstract or intangible entity using all senses: what do they look, sound, smell, taste and feel like?
Examples: Choose 2 of the following examples and write for five minutes each using imagery/sensory language.
a. homesickness
b. grief
c. love
d. joy
e. emptiness
f. time
g. envy
Good Afternoon,
Friday Writes:
*time to work on Inspiration Poems
Good Afternoon,
*No Red Ink: Phrases and Dependent Clauses.
Good Afternoon,
*Today we will be starting class with your poetry quiz.
*Coming back to our poems from last week: debrief
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
“If” by Rudyard Kipling
“Oh Captain My Captain” by Walt Whitman
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“I Too Sing America” by Langston Hughes
i-too-sing-america-by-langston-hughes
“Art Reflecting Life” by Thomas King
art-reflecting-life-by-thomas-king
*Venn Diagram: “If” and “The Road Not Taken”
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The Road Not Taken analysis- ENG10
