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EWRT 30
Class 2
AGENDA
Groups and Participation Points
Discussion: Haiku
Terms 6-10
Lecture: Blank Verse: Form, Meter, and Structure
Guided Writing (Color Poem)
Participation PointsHint: this is not participating!
All participation points must
be earned in class
You will earn some points in teams during discussion.
You will earn some points in teams for reading your original
work.
You will earn some points in teams during vocabulary games
You will earn some points for attending writers’ workshops
There may be other opportunities to earn points.
If you are not in class, you cannot earn points.
2. The teams will remain the same through the discussion, reading, workshops, and vocabulary of one project.
3. You must change at least 50% of your team after each project is completed.
4. You may never be on a team with the same person more than twice.
5. You may never have a new team composed of more than 50% of any prior team.
1. We will often use teams to earn participation points. Your teams can be made up of 3 or 4 people.
Points will be earned for correct answers to questions, meaningful contributions to the discussion, and the willingness to share your work. Each team will track their own points, but cheating leads to death (or loss of 25 participation points).
Answers,
comments, and
questions must be
posed in a manner
that promotes
learning. Those
who speak out of
turn or with
maliciousness will
not receive points
for their teams.
At the end of each
class, you will turn in a
point sheet with the
names of everyone in
your group and your
accumulated points
for the day.
It is your responsibility
to make the sheet,
track the points, and
turn it in.
Sit near your team
members in class to
facilitate ease of
group discussions
Your Poetry
Group!
Get into groups of
three or four. (1-2
minutes)
If you can’t find a
group, please raise
your hand.
Once your groups is established, choose
one person to be the
keeper of the points.
Write down
members’ names
Turn in your sheet at
the end of the class
period.
In your groups: 5-6 minutes
Review the first five vocabulary words.
Be prepared to offer definitions
Read your Haiku to each other.
Identify the conventions you used in your haiku
Prepare one or two to read aloud to the class
The Review
Green
sheet
Syllabus
Website
Terms 1-5
What are the
traditional
Conventions?
Conventions of Haiku
the line and syllable count
the use of a word that marks a season
the “phrase and fragment” style (the description and reflection, usually marked with punctuation).
Volunteers to Read!
What conventions do you recognize?
Terms 6-10
6. Blank verse
A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Shakespeare's sonnets, Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost,
and Robert Frost's meditative poems such as "Birches"
include many lines of blank verse. Here are the opening
blank verse lines of "Birches": When I see birches bend to
left and right / Across the lines of straighter darker trees, /
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
7. Meter
The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems. An
iamb is an example of meter.
9. Metaphor
A comparison between essentially unlike things
without an explicitly comparative word such as like or
as. An example is "My love is a red, red rose.”
10. Simile
A figure of speech involving a comparison between
unlike things using like, as, or as though. An example:
"My love is like a red, red rose."
Blank Verse
Blank verse is a form of poetry, obviously. What sets
it apart from all the other forms is that blank verse
does not rhyme. The meter is usually iambic (a pattern of unstressed syllables followed by
stressed), and pentameter ( a line consisting of five
feet). A line of blank verse would go like this:
Detroit Detroit Detroit Detroit Detroit
OR
I watch the rolling hills fly by my eyes
Though, technically, all lines are supposed to be
exactly iambic, sometimes it doesn't want to quite
work out that way.
Scansion is the act of marking a poem to show
the metrical units of which it is composed. It
means any attempt, by signs, to indicate the
beat of a line of poetry and to mark off the
division of feet.
Each team will scan one verse of the poem
“Mending Wall.” When you are done, write it on
the white board. (5-7 minutes)
http://poemshape.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/robert-frost-iambic-
pentameter-mending-wall/
1. Read the verse out loud and see if you notice a particular rhythm in your first reading.
2. Count the number of syllables in each line, and write that number at the end of the line. Do you see a pattern in the number of syllables?
3. Put an accent mark (/) over any syllables that absolutely have to be stressed. The way you can figure this out is by trying to say the word
several times, each time exaggerating a different syllable. ("AR-tist"
or "ar-TIST”). Put a "u" over the unstressed syllables.
4. Once you see a pattern (for example, unstressed, unstressed, stressed; unstressed, unstressed, stressed . . . ), mark a vertical line
between each unit of the pattern. Those are your "feet.”
5. Read the poem aloud again, this time really accentuating the words you have marked as "stressed." Does it sound right?
6. Count how many feet each line has. It will probably be one of these:
Monometer (one foot), Dimeter (two feet), Trimeter (three feet),
Tetrameter (four feet), Pentameter (five feet), or Hexameter (six
feet).
7. Copy your scanned verse onto the board.
Guided WritingHearing Colors: A poem in blank verse
Pick a color to write about.
Then, assign qualities to your color. I know this is a stretch, but try
to imagine the color with your other senses.
These qualities will help you connect your color to abstract
ideas and events and describe it through alternative mediums.
Soft or hard
Wet or dry
Big or little
Loud or quiet
Natural or man-made
Smooth or textured
Happy or sad
Hot or cold
Dense or porous
Spring fall summer or winter
Thick or thin
Slippery or sticky
Inside or outside
Funny or serious
Old or new
Cheap or expensive
Plain or ornate
Common or uncommon
Casual or formal
Energetic or relaxed
Realistic or fantastic
Strong or frail
Questions to consider in
writing Verse One
If your color were music, what kind would it be?
Who would play it and where would you hear it?
Which song would it be?
Why or how does this music reflect your color?
The color red is the shameless, sexy
Salsa rhythm of racy Cubanos
And Puertorriqueños; fast Timba—drum
Beats: passionate, hungry, fervent, alive.
Verse Two
If your color were dance it would be which?
Who would dance it and where would you see it
done?
Describe the movements of the dance.
Why is this dance like your color?
Verse Three
If your color were a smell, it would be which?
Where would you smell it?
What does it remind you of?
How is this smell like your color?
Verse Four
If your color were a food it would be which?
Where and when would you eat it?
How does it taste?
How does it remind you of your color?
Verse Five
If your color were an event it would be which?
Specific example
When do you go there?
How is your color like your event?
Verse Six
If your color were a place it would be what or
where?
Describe it.
When do you (or other people) go there?
How is your color like your place?
Verse Seven
If your color were a person, who would it be?
Where would you see this person?
Describe this person.
How is your color like the person?
Verse Eight
If your color were an animal, which would it be?
Where would you see this animal
Describe the animal
How is your color like the animal
Verse Nine
If your color were a game, what kind would it
be?
Which one in particular?
Who would play it?
Describe the game.
Verse Ten
If your color were a book, what kind would it
be?
Which one in particular?
Who would read it?
Describe the theme, plot, mood, or purpose.
Ending
Finish the poem with one or two more
lines!
Blank Verse: Conventions
Once you finish writing your poem,
put it into blank verse.
This means each line will have ten
syllables or five iambic feet.
It should not rhyme!
Consider other conventions
Simile:
A figure of speech in which things are compared using the words “like” or “as”
Metaphor
A figure of speech in which things are compared by stating that one thing is another
Alliteration
Repetition of words with the same beginning sounds
Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like the objects or
actions they refer to
Assonance:
Identity or similarity in sound
between internal vowels in
neighboring words. example: hot
dog
Remember
Once you have completed your verses, you can eliminate one or two or even three if they are not
working in your poem.
You can add other verses that help you describe
your color.
This guided writing is set up as quatrains (four lines
per verse), but you can change that if you would
like.
Homework
Post #2 Blank Verse: Color Poem
Reading: Sonnets
Study Terms 1-10