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Which poem did you like best by Stein or cummings? Why? What are some things Stein’s and cummings’s poems have in common? › Write down at least one similarity about the “form” of the poems › Write down one similarity about the message/theme of the poems What qualities make these poems “Modern”? Time: 4 minutes
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Wallace Stevens & TS Eliot: “Conversation Galante” ONLY › Take Active Notes on ALL the poems AND the biographies… › Complete the THREE T’s for TWO (total) poems in your JOURNALS Modernism In-Class Assessment › 12/6 (1, 2, 3, 4); 12/9 (7) Unit N › 12/2 (1, 2); 12/3 (3, 4); 12/4 (7) › Tianna, Mikyle, Tyler, Sam, Tyesha Coached Project › Annotated Bibliography due 11/25/13 to your liaison teacher (hard copy) Word Bank Tempus Trackers Book Reviews for MP2
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Word Bank Trojan Women Project Rubrics…? Snow Ball Period 4: “Always the Mob” & “Stopping By Woods…” Post-Seminar Questions!? (50 points!) Contest for Female Poets… check your email for deets!
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(The) modern writer (had a) fervent* desire to break with the past, rejecting literary traditions that seemed outmoded and diction* that seemed too genteel* to suit an era of technological breakthroughs and global violence. (Poets.org) The modern writer had a passionate desire to distinguish himself/herself from the past, denying or ignoring the previous ways of writing that seemed outdated and word phrasing that seemed too proper to fit in a time period of technological advances and worldwide violence.
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Take NOTES on your packet as your classmates share! (DUH!)
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Choose your role: › Reader › Discussion Leader › Symbologist › Reporter Time: 10 minutes FYI: Stein was a feminist! Reread OUT LOUD › “Tender Buttons [a Box] “ › “A Mounted Umbrella” Discuss/share and take notes on the 3 T’s for these poems Discuss what each object might symbolize Find, copy, and CITE TWO quotes that reveal the symbolism
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Free write about the following: › Why do Americans need to have the newest, latest product(s)? Consider why people stand in line for hours to buy the iPhone 5s when they already have the iPhone 5. Consider why people spend large sums of money buying things like: a pair of Uggs, Jordans, Tory Burch shoes, a North Face jacket, Coach bags BLACK FRIDAY!? Time: 3 minutes
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Technology: Planned Obsolescence
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Reread “Poem, Or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal” OUT LOUD Discuss the poem’s message › Write it in your journal!
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In your groups, re-write “Poem, Or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal”. › keep cummings’s original message › Update/change the language, form, and allusions Time: 7 minutes
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“A Frightful Release” (Stein) “Red Faces” (Stein) “Susie Asado” (Stein) “i sing of Olaf glad and big” (cummings) “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls” (cummings) “in Just-” (cummings) “r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r” (cummings) What do we NEED to know about these poems? Consider › Form › Theme (message) › Modernist tendencies › Tone/Mood
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