Thursday, October 3rd

Goals: 

• I can define poetic elements. 
• I can collaborate to write a paragraph about a poem that includes a claim. 

Announcements: 

• For Friday:  Write your own poem and an analysis of the choices you made as a writer to make meaning. 

1. Cut up poem

• With your partner, place the poem in the order that it seems to make sense to you. 
• Write a theme statement for the poem you created. What choices that you made as a "writer" of this poem support that theme? 
  
• Writer's Notebook #11 Read the original version.  How did the order change your understanding of the poem 

2. Poem writing prompts 

• Pick a station (s) for poetry writing: 
  • ​Poetry inspired by art 
    • ​​35 Famous Paintings
    • Detroit Institute of Art
  • ​Blackout Poetry 
  • Concrete Poems
  • Writing Next to Poems
  • ​Sonnets 
  • ​Villenelles