I collected the compositions on the two poems about education.
I handed out a criteria sheet for your poetry manuscript which is due Jan. 21 (a Monday). Be sure to get a copy on Monday.
We read a poem by Lorna Crozier "Summerfallow" and a poem by Patrick Lane, "The Macaroni Song" and circled what we found "surprising" or "unexpected" in each poem since when we write poems, surprising our readers is the goal. Not a Hollywood surprise where a killer arrives to stab the protagonist but a simple surprise such as lying down in a field in the middle of a poem about a field.
You can probably find these poems on line.
We read two poems by Carla Funk and two student poems as models for this weekend's homework. Write a poem about an animal, insect, city, or object. Your job is to make us see it in a new way due to the effectiveness of your description. Focus on the techniques we have been discussing all week.
If you need more examples, search the poems on www.poetryfoundation.org.
Here's the link:
Find poems . . . .
Next week we are in the computer lab from Monday to Thursday as Ms. Marshall needs our room. Meet in the centre lab on Monday.
