English 10A Monday, September 12th You need your netbooks!!!!!!

Vocab Warm-up Quiz Friday Please turn on your chromebooks! Plan Evaluate

Yesterday notes pg. 11 Took what you wrote last week in your writer’s notebook. Underlined anything that catches your attention Arranged those lines into a poem Rearranged the lines Either share or turn in your poem of 12-15 lines by Wednesday jkiel@alleganps.org

“We Real Cool,” Gwendolyn Brooks We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

“since feeling is first,” e.e. cummings since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry —the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids’ flutter which says we are for each other: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life’s not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens VI Icicles filled the long window With barbaric glass. The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it, to and fro. The mood Traced in the shadow An indecipherable cause.

Introduction To Poetry by Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light  like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

Using slashes on your paper, show where the line breaks should go. I wake in the dark and remember it is the morning when I must start by myself on the journey I lie listening to the black hour before dawn and you are still asleep beside me while around us the trees full of night lean hushed in their dream that bears us up asleep and awake then I hear drops falling one by one into the sightless leaves and I do not know when they began but all at once there is no sound but rain and the stream below us roaring away into the rushing darkness

Rain Travel W. S. Merwin Rain Travel I wake in the dark and remember it is the morning when I must start by myself on the journey I lie listening to the black hour before dawn and you are still asleep beside me while around us the trees full of night lean hushed in their dream that bears us up asleep and awake then I hear drops falling one by one into the sightless leaves and I  do not know when they began but all at once there is no sound but rain and the stream below us roaring away into the rushing darkness

Today is a day of imagination Typography by Taylor Mali Why Falling in Love is Like Owning a Dog Explaining My Depression to my mother

http://www. readwritethink http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/line-break-explorer-30018.html

6-word Epitaphs 6 words to tell a whole story For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn. I told you I was ill Free Money!...Reality. Foreclosure. Bankruptcy. Failure Married for money. Divorced for love. Peed on carpet. Now outdoor cat. Not quite what I was planning

Share Form small groups (3-5) Take turns reading your epitaphs Describe what word choices you were forced to make Poems are also short stories with very specific word choice

Where I’m from Get out your writer’s notebooks and write down at least one thing for the following prompts (in Google slides – MAISA stuff)  

Exit slip = Choose TWO of the following and write a log entry in your writer’s notebook 1. How did it feel tor a group of readings to respond to your writing? 2 What intentional decisions did the response group notice in your writing? 3. What did the response group notice that helped you see your writing in a new way? 4. What did you learn by responding to the writing of your groupmates?