Welcome to Ms. Wood, our UVic student teacher who will be working with our period 4 class. Ms. Wood did an interest survey with the period 4 class today so if you were absent, ask her for a copy.
If you were absent today, you need to get a peer to edit poem 3 and give you a mark out of 10. You also need to do the vocabulary test at lunch. You must also complete the poem assignment described below. Call you homework buddy to read you the poems studied during class.
Revising a poem means making it the best it can be: clear, exuberant, surprising, challenging, truthful etc
Follow the criteria list closely, especially your top 4 and the ONE that you have trouble remembering.
Tonight: Write a poem about an animal, an object, or a city. Research real facts about this "thing" and include them in the poem and also include lies about the animal, object or city that you feel really describe the thing well. You may use the examples I gave you during class today or look for examples in the poetry books you have with you.
Bring the typed poem to class tomorrow. You may not print during class so print at home. Do not email me a poem. Print at lunch in the library or in class.
You will be editing this poem (#4) during class using the criteria sheet.
You will submit the poem and all of your comments and mark it out of 10.
I am going to mark your ability to revise.
What are you letting get through?
Cliched language such as tears rolled down her face, blood turned cold, loyal dog etc?
Dull imagery?
No sense of sound and rhythm (Use a thesaurus, cut lines for double meaning)
No surprise (Does it sound like Britney Spears? If yes, go back to the drawing board).
Good luck.
Use the models. Use the research.
If you use phrases from the National Geographic magazines, be sure to italicize them.
If you borrowed a magazine, please return it.
Thanks.
