Jeffrey Renn showed us today what is possible when it comes to reciting poetry.
You can google authors aloud, recitation ideas, etc to really improve the way you read your poems.
Try taping yourself doing the reading you are planning for the English classes, including the introductions. Talk about poetry. About listening. About what is going on in the poem. What you were trying to accomplish etc
Listen to the tape. Are the ends of your sentences hard to hear, do you end too quickly and start into the next poem too quickly, etc.
Thursday, I'll have you each present one poem to the class and I will be marking you.
Criteria:
1. Strong introduction
2. Pacing, eye contact, awareness of audience, voice modulations, articulations
3. Poem choice. Choose poems that will entertain or keep the audience's attention.
4. Body language, breathing, audibility, enthusiasm
5. The poem is read for meaning. Your voice makes sense with what the poem is saying. You don't rise up at the end of lines for no reason at all other than nerves.
FEEL YOUR NERVES. TAKE TIME TO CALM YOURSELF BEFORE YOU BEGIN.
