Content Objective: I can analyze and combine complex ideas and express them through poetry.
Language Objective: I will identify and analyze my personal prototype and connect these ideas with my environment and create found poetry that reflects this connection.
Essential Question: What is your personal prototype and how does environment play a role in it? What is found poetry and how can it help you express complex ideas?
Agenda:
1. Poem of the Day
2. Quick Write:
3. Quick Write, part 2:
4. 5-Minute Blitz Research: What is found poetry?
5. Let's make our own centos: Round 1
6. Round 2: Copy/paste your poem below the original.
You have 5 minutes to rearrange your lines however you want. Do not edit or delete any words.
7. Round 3:
Copy/paste your previous version underneath the previous round.
Take 5 minutes to erase any words you do not want to include.
8. Round 4:
Copy/paste your previous version underneath the previous round.
Take 5 minutes to add any words you want to add.
9. Recite your poem. Consider these questions:
10. Reflection:
Assignments:
Language Objective: I will identify and analyze my personal prototype and connect these ideas with my environment and create found poetry that reflects this connection.
Essential Question: What is your personal prototype and how does environment play a role in it? What is found poetry and how can it help you express complex ideas?
Agenda:
1. Poem of the Day
2. Quick Write:
- What is your personal prototype?
- Where do you see yourself going with this long term?
- What is the next step on this journey?
3. Quick Write, part 2:
- What is environment?
- What is YOUR environment?
- How does environment play a role in your personal prototype?
4. 5-Minute Blitz Research: What is found poetry?
5. Let's make our own centos: Round 1
- Choose a line from the book on poetry in front of you by opening to a random page and pointing your finger to a line.
- Copy this line into your GoogleDoc
- Pass your book to the person to your right, take the book from the person to your left.
- Do not change the order of these lines in round 1.
- Your poem will have at least 20 lines.
6. Round 2: Copy/paste your poem below the original.
You have 5 minutes to rearrange your lines however you want. Do not edit or delete any words.
7. Round 3:
Copy/paste your previous version underneath the previous round.
Take 5 minutes to erase any words you do not want to include.
8. Round 4:
Copy/paste your previous version underneath the previous round.
Take 5 minutes to add any words you want to add.
9. Recite your poem. Consider these questions:
- How would you read this poem out loud?
- Which words/syllables would you stress?
- What kind of voice would you read this in?
10. Reflection:
- What were your main considerations in creating and editing your found poem?
- What were your struggles/successes?
- How much of yourself were you able to add to your cento?
Assignments:
- Quick write (1&2)
- Cento (4 Rounds)
- Reflection
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