The Choice Is Yours: November 15, 2017

Focus: What choices do we need to make to begin our poetry papers and projects?

1. Warming up with Choice #1: Project vs. paper

Poetry PAPER:

• Overview
• Sample

Poetry PROJECT:

• Overview 
• Presentation guidelines
• Proposal and student-generated rubric
• Sample

2. Slowing down with Choice #2: Old vs. new (1900 is our pivot point)

3. Enjoying old-school and new-school approaches to discovering poetry and TAKING A FIELD TRIP!

Old School:
Books and anthologies

New School:
Contemporary literary journals
Poetry In Voice (it's like Spotify, but for poems)

HW:
1. For tomorrow: Please read Chapters 13, 14 and 15 and complete your reading ticket.

2. For next Tuesday (Nov 28) : Finalize your poem choice for the poetry paper/project; you will perform a metacognitive on your poem that day. If you're borrowing one of my literary journals, please make a copy of your poem and return the journal to me.

3. NOTE: I left the three most important chapters off our Beloved bookmark for reasons unknown. Here is the slightly adjusted schedule for the week after Thanksgiving:

• Please read through the end of Part 1 for Monday, Nov. 27; complete your reading ticket.
• Read through the 1st half of Part 2, Chapter 1 for Wednesday, Nov. 28 (no reading ticket).
• Read through the rest of Part 2, Chapter 1 for Friday, Nov. 30; complete your reading ticket.

4. If you were absent yesterday, please find 40 minutes to complete the timed writing by Thursday so that you can participate in workshop.