AGENDA:

Mary Oliver passed away yesterday morning at age 83.

Wild Geese

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv_4xmh_WtE

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

The Summer Day
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/01/mary-oliver-obituary-the-summer-day



Favorite poem projects

Roc the sonnet

https://wab.org/roc-the-sonnet/

End of marking period

AGENDA:

Sokol/Gannon contests
Workshop #2
Favorite Poet project

Complete portfolios/Reflection:
Separate marking period 1 from marking period 2
Write a reflection piece for whole semester course
Assignments/Poems for marking period 2:

1. 3 prompts
2. Meaning of a Word
3. Ode
4. Villanelle
5. Abecedarian
6. Prose poem
7. Poetry Book Review
8. Confession/Fairy Tale
9. Favorite Poet Project
10. Sokol/Gannon entry
11. Poetry revision
12. Course reflection

Anne Sexton---Jocelyn Brillian

AGENDA:

Present background material on Anne Sexton

Read and discuss "When man enters woman" by Anne Sexton

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-man-enters-woman/

Read and discuss "Cinderella" by Anne Sexton

http://www.units.miamioh.edu/technologyandhumanities/sexton.htm

Work on either a confession poem or a fairy tale poem

More workshop #2/More Favorite Poet

AGENDA:

Workshop #2
Favorite poem project

Workshop/Favorite Poet project

AGENDA:

Per. 1--Workshop new poems

Per. 2--Work on Favorite poet project

CONTESTS!

Welcome Back 2019

AGENDA:

Favorite Poet Project

Happy New Year 2018

AGENDA:

Focus today on the Favorite Poet Project.  Select a poet and a poem.  Create a script for yourself to videotape along with the reading of the poem.

Read the following articles:
https://www.arts.gov/art-works/2016/how-read-and-talk-about-poetry 

https://penandthepad.com/mean-describe-theme-poem-3282.html 

Continue to work on poems for workshop and contests.

Favorite Poem Project

AGENDA:

This is a long term project that involves selecting a favorite poem and creating a video of your reading of the poem and explanation of why the poem has personal meaning for you.

To find out what the project entails, go to the link on this blog:
Favorite Poem Project

We'll take a look at a video example (a break up poem from the Renaissance period) and then you can explore the website.

Michael Drayton's "Since There's No Help"
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-lxi-since-there-s-no-help/

Sonnet XI

Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part, 
Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, 

And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart,
That thus so cleanly I myself can free.
Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows,
And when we meet at any time again
Be it not seen in either of our brows
That we one jot of former love retain.
Now at the last gasp of Love's latest breath,
When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies,
When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death,
And Innocence is closing up his eyes,
Now, if thou wouldst, when all have giv'n him over,
From death to life thou might'st him yet recover. 

Michael Drayton