Thursday, September 8, 2016

50 questions Exercise/ goldenshovel

AGENDA:
EQ: What are the four poetic temperaments according to the Gregory Orr essay?
What do you think about the ideas in his essay?  Do you agree or disagree? Does his essay provide a "literary theory" about thinking about poetry?    What is your poetic temperament?  Can you merge the other temperaments?

1. Review and discuss Gregory Orr's essay: Look at the poems referred to in the assignment.

2. Share out 50 questions poems.  What did you think of creating these?  Did you feel your imagination freeing?

3. Introduce the "Golden Shovel Poem" and Terrance Hayes

4. Write a Golden Shovel poem:

Resources: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems?page=4

Sign out text books

HOMEWORK: Create another 50 questions or "Golden Shovel poem" for Thursday that we can workshop
on Thursday

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