10 week portfolio/Contests

AGENDA:

Work on 10 week portfolios.

CONTESTS:  Last chance for Bennington. Hollins

Check Google Classroom for missing assignments!

Revision/Work on poems--Workshop

AGENDA:

Revision--Master Class--Billy Collins and Marie Howe

CONTESTS:  Bennington,  Hollins, and Princeton

GANNON:  www.gannon.edu/poetrycontest

Work on Revisions and workshop

Workshop #2

AGENDA:

5 Week portfolio DUE!

Workshop #2---Post a poem for workshop today

Continue to think about CONTEST entries

Famous Quote Poem/Epigraph poem

AGENDA:


1.  BUSINESS:
Set up portfolio folder.  Print out poems.  You should have 5 poems in folder by Thursday for portfolio grading.
Famous quote
Self-Identity
Technical Terms
Break-up (Nails)
Object poem
Metaphor
etc.


2. Select a famous quote postcard (or find a famous quote online).

Work on Famous Quote poem and other poems for your folder
Explore the ideas of the quote and the author.  What is the context of the quote?  Can you find the book it came from?  What about the author?  What does the quote mean to you?  How can it inspire your poem?

3. A little inspiration---Famous Quotes from poets and poems:

https://writerswrite.co.za/17-of-the-most-powerful-excerpts-from-poetry/

https://writerswrite.co.za/33-quotes-by-poets-on-poetry/

https://www.brainyquote.com/

4.  REGISTER WITH SCHOLASTIC.  Look at Bennington:

https://www.bennington.edu/events/young-writers-awards

https://www.weareteachers.com/student-writing-contests/

https://blog.prepscholar.com/writing-contests-for-high-school-students


HOLLINS (Nancy Thorpe poetry):
https://www.hollins.edu/academics/majors-minors/english-creative-writing-major/nancy-thorp-poetry-contest/

Self-Portrait Poem

Self-Portrait with Weeping Woman   Deborah Paredez

I know why I fell hard for Hecuba— shins skinned and lips split to blooming lupine on her throat's rough coat, hurled down the whole length of disaster—I'm sure I'd grown to know by then to slacken as a sail against the current and squall of a woman’s woe. What could I do but chorus my ruddered howl to hers? When you’re a brown girl raised up near the river, there's always a woman bereft and bank-wrecked, bloodied and bleating her insistent lament. Ay Llorona— every crossing is a tomb and a tune, a wolf-wail and the moon that turns me to scratch at the tracks of every mud-dirged girl.

Seniors--College Fair/Senior Trip

AGENDA:

Work on writing for Workshop #2 until 8:15.

College Fair--8:15
Senior trip--9:00

Naomi Shihab Nye--Friday!

AGENDA:
This Friday for BOA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgkAs9Otlig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elNzMoG8Zs0

https://voxpopulisphere.com/2017/02/01/naomi-shihab-nye-ted-kooser-is-my-president/

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/naomi-shihab-nye

https://poets.org/poet/naomi-shihab-nye










https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/11/10/naomi-shihab-nye-kindness/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64WACNcLH3g

Kindness

Before you know what kindness really is

you must lose things,feel the future dissolve in a moment

like salt weakened in a broth.

What you held in your hand,

What you counted and carefully saved,

all this must go so you know

how desolate the landscape can be

between the regions of kindness.

How you ride and ride

thinking the bus will never stop,

the passengers eating maize and chicken

will stare out the window forever.

Before your learn the tender gravity of kindness

you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho

lies dead by the side of the road.

You must see how this could be you,

how he too was someone

who journeyed through the night with plans

and the simple breath that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,

you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

You must wake up with sorrow.

You must speak to it till your voice

catches the thread of all sorrows

and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,

only kindness that ties your shoes

and sends you out into the day to mail letters and

purchase bread,

only kindness that raises its head

from the crowd of the world to say

It is I you have been looking for,

and then goes with you everywhere

Like a shadow or a friend.

From Words Under the Words: Selected Poems

https://poets.org/poem/separation-wall

WRITING:
Work on poems for Workshop #2