Monday, October 2, 2017

Workshop Wednesday

Workshop Wednesday

AGENDA:

Wednesday will be our another Poetry Workshop.  Please pick one of your poems to workshop.  I will make copies of them Wednesday morning for the class to look over. Also start thinking about Bennington contest and if you want to attend the BOA Dine and Rhyme on Oct. 20

So far you should have 5 or 6 poems that you can revise and prepare for Wednesday:
  • Paradox and Oxymoron
  • Golden Shovel poem
  • Ashbery poem
  • Dialectical
  • Self-Portrait
  • Object
  • and maybe today's assignment on W. S. Merwin 
1. Go to:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems/detail/52501 

Listen to the poem:
https://audioboom.com/boos/147537-the-nails-w-s-merwin

2. Go over Teaching Tips

3. Read discussion questions. Post responses to discussion questions as a comment.

4. Explore all the learning lab content.especially the essay about the poem and other resources:
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/merwin/
http://www.merwinconservancy.org/2013/01/poem-of-the-week-the-nails/
https://moonlightowl.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/the-nails/ 

5. WRITE: Look over Writing Ideas and create a poem

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