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
- continue to write and practice your spoken word – Tuesday and Wednesday
- Sahn Kim has volunteered to go first; so it will proceed alphabetically from there; we will have around 15 go on Thursday and 15 people go on Friday:
- The order of the line-up unless someone wants to go in your place:
- Thursday: Sahn, Alexandria, Amelia, Megan, Londyn, Kiera, Cate, Jayden, Ivan, Nika, Hannah, Alexander, Thomas, Maddie, Claire
- Friday: Elizabeth, Antonio, William, Kara, Violet, Seannah, Maelle, Owen, Arielle, Taylor, Mona, Calia, Mia, Amina, Kara
Friday, November 22
- Make sure that you uploaded your favourite Abstract, Concrete poem to the Padlet – link in TEAMS
- Warm-up Activity – share some of the poems
- Fourth Journal Entry (#5 on the Scales document) – Communication Poem – instructions in the WG tab of the Blog
- while people are working on this writing activity, 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?
- while people are working on this writing activity, I will be calling people up with their journals for evidence of brainstorming around the following:
Thursday
- Anyone willing to share their I Am From poem?
- One 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
- Third Journal Entry – #3 on the Scales Journal document – recipe is on the blog:
- Concrete Abstract Poem and Padlet link in the WG tab
Wednesday
- Another Master – take note of the devices first on the handout – then we will watch the performance
- In your journal, write down:
- a thematic statement of purpose
- your favourite line from the Sarah Kay’s Slam Poem
- Identity prompts: Second Journal Entry is #4 in the Spoken Word Scales – the ‘recipe’ for I Am From poem is in the Writing and Grammar tab of the blog
Tuesday
- view various ‘masters’ of Spoken Word – take note of: purpose, language and delivery manipulation
- first Journal Entry: #1 from the Spoken Word Scales English Honours 9
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 🙂