Agenda

Timeline:

• Friday, November 22 – have your idea and some of the process (brainstorming evident in your journal)
• Monday, November 25 – a few more delivery and Journal Writing Activities
• Tuesday and Wednesday – writing/practicing/ intro to the novel
• Thursday and Friday – November 28, 29 = In-class performances!!! Be ready to go 🙂

Monday, November 25

• tone, pacing and delivery practice/activity
• Tuesday and Wednesday – continue to write and practice your spoken word
• It will proceed alphabetically from from whoever goes first; roughly half the class will go on Thursday and the other half on Friday:
• The order of the line-up unless someone wants to go in your place:

Friday, November 22

• I will be calling people up with their journals for evidence of brainstorming around the following:
  • topic – what is your Spoken Word about?
  • purpose – what will you communicate to your audience? What might the take-away be?
  • tone – serious, poignant, funny, satirical?
  • format – a slam poem? a story? a mash-up of the two?
  • delivery – by yourself? or with another person?
• I will also be checking for 4 entries in the journal (see below)
• Fifth Journal Entry – Complete # 9 from the English Studies 12 Warm-Up Exercises
• you should have your idea for your Spoken Word, but if you don’t:
  • UTILIZE the resources on the Writing and Grammar tab of the blog
  • SPEND some time reading some of the poems in the Padlet posts – don’t copy but some of the entries might spark an idea
  • LOOK at and try one of either #4, 6, 7 or 8 in the English Studies 12 Warm-Up Exercises
• REMEMBER:
  • All work for your spoken word must be completed in the Journal
  • I will be looking for integration into your story and/or Slam poem integration of some of the skills we have been practicing

Thursday, November 21

• We will read some of the Concrete Abstract Poems
• anyone will to share their I am From poem?
• Fourth Journal Entry is #5 – The Communication Poem from the English Studies 12 Warm up document. See the ‘recipe’ on the blog
• for tomorrow: be up to date in your journal (four entries so far) AND have your idea for your spoken word: topic, sense of purpose (what you want to communicate or share), tone? (funny, serious, satirical) format? (story or slam poem or a mash-up of the two?), by yourself or with someone? etc.

Wednesday, November 20

• option for Spoken Word – a story! we will watch some and map how they fit the narrative steps outlined in the Plan, Perfect, Practice, Perform document
• You should have your Second Journal Entry completed (#3 I am From poem)
• Third Journal Entry – #2 in the English Studies 12 Warm-Up Exercises:
  • Concrete Abstract Poem (link in the WG tab)
    • Write your concrete poem in your journal and then in the padlet
    • password = on the class TEAMS notification

Tuesday, November 19

• two more masters – based on Identity – see the document on Identity in the WG tab of the blog under this heading: Documents to help you generate ideas for your topic:
  • for Eyes Wide Open take notes on the paper
• Warm up Activities
• Second Journal Entry is #3  – I am From poem from the English Studies 12 Warm Up Exercises

Monday, November 18

• view various ‘masters’ of Spoken Word – take note of: purpose, language and delivery manipulation
• first Journal Entry: #1 from the English Studies 12 Warm-Up Exercises