1. Warm Up: generate a list of ten topics according to the following:
Generate a list of topics we should either:
Study more intensively in school
Hear more about in the media
Understand from a young age
Better-Educate the next generation about
Or Stop ignoring

2. Please get out your Act II packet
You will have ten minutes to finish summarizing the scenes in Act II before I collect the packet for grading

3. Syllabic Poetry
Poetry whose meter is determined by the total number of syllables per line, rather than the number of stresses

4. Syllabic forms
Sometimes the number of syllables per line is symbolic
Sometimes, poets prefer to work in a pattern— generally poets tend to use an odd number of syllables per line, but this varies based on the poet and poem
Although this can coincide with rhyme, it does not have to

5. Read around Check out the seven poems around the room
Each is about a very different subject, takes a different tone, and is a different length
All of this poetry is written in syllabic form, with special attention paid to the number of syllables used in each line

6. As you are reading around:
Rate the poems from your favorite to your least favorite
Write down one thing about each poem that you either like or dislike
When you are finish reading all of them, and writing down these things, please return to your original seat

7. Your poem should take up at least ¾ of a page
Homework:
Compose a syllabic poem OR a small collection of syllabic poems by Monday
Your poem should take up at least ¾ of a page