1. Entrance Ticket
What do you think of when you think of poetry? What makes poetry different from a play, a novel, an essay, etc?

2. Homework: Read the article
January 30th, 2014
Essential Question: What is poetry?
Agenda: 1) Entrance Ticket 2) What is Poetry? 3) Found Poetry 4) Sharing Found Poems 5) Exit Ticket
Homework: Read the article

3. What is poetry?
Poetry: a literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm

4. AKA NOT HELPFUL. O4

5. POETRY IS...
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. - Salvatore Quasimodo
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. - T. S. Eliot
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. - Jean Cocteau
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. - James Joyce

6. Found Poetry
Found Poetry: poems that are composed from words and phrases found in another text
Directions:
1. Read through the Found Poem instructions
2. Using the text that you brought in, create a found poem!

7. Found Poem Example What’s similar????
Passage from Holes by Louis Sachar (pg. 27):
“There was a change in the weather.
For the worse.
The air became unbearably humid. Stanley was drenched in sweat. Beads of moisture ran down the handle of his shovel. It was almost as if the temperature had gotten so hot that the air itself was sweating.
A loud book of thunder echoed across the empty lake. A storm was way off to the west, beyond the mountains. Stanley could count more than thirty seconds between the flash of lightning and the clap of thunder. That was how far away the storm was. Sound travels a great distance across a barren wasteland.”
Found Poem
The air became humid
Beads of moisture ran down
The handle of his shovel
It was almost as if
The air itself was sweating
Thunder echoed across the empty lake
A storm beyond the mountains.
Thirty seconds between the flash
And the thunder
Sound travels a great distance
Across a barren wasteland
What’s similar????

8. Sharing Found Poems Practice Sharing to a partner
Give your partner feedback on the following:
Use of Details
Logical Progression or Sequence
Clear, Consistent Tone
Share!
This time it will not be mandatory, but I still would like everyone to practice reading their work aloud!

9. Exit Ticket
What do you like to read (this can also include tumblr, blogs, social media, etc - just be specific?
What do you look for when choosing something to read?
What do you like and/or not like about reading?

10. Takeaways Poetry is vast and hard to define.
Poetry seeks to describe what it means to be human, in particular what it means to feel something.
Poetry can be about anything, and it can have many different forms.
For these reasons, poetry has lasted for thousands and thousands of years.