Finals Week Fall, 2012

12/21/12

Poetry Final

1st Step: A word about grades

2nd Step: Share Poems

3rd Step: (If time) What Poetry Is (Carl Sandburg)

Week of 12/11/12

12/13/12

Goal: Wrap Up.


First Step: Housekeeping. Disclaimer.

Go to Infinite Campus. See if you have any "blanks" or "M" grades. Then, on a piece of paper, everybody answer the following questions (even if you've already told me these things.)

1. Do you have any missing poems (old work)?

2. If you turned them in, where are they? (Edmodo, your blog, your portfolio?

3. Is your 6-week paper missing? If you turned it in, where is it?


8. Did you turn in your portfolio as a hard copy or a Wix site)?

9. If it's a Wix site, What is your Website URL? 

10. If it's a Wix Site: where did you post the URL?

11. Give me your paper copy of a poem for the final packet.

12. Did you submit to Muse on Edmodo?

13. Anything else you need to tell me about your grade? Last chance!

Portfolio viewing.

Now, Carl Sandburg:


12/11/12

Goal: Wrap up Portfolios. 

HW: Duh. Portfolio due on Thursday. 

First Step: "So You Want to be a Writer" by Charles Bukowski

Time to work on portfolios.

Examples from the other class first. 



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Research and contemplation activity: Zen Drawing (theater)

Pick an object from all of the options and find a quiet spot.
Sketch it in as much detail as possible. Think of the drawing as meditative. Silence is an absolute must. The quality does not matter, only getting in touch with the object through the enjoyment of drawing it matters.

If you finish before time is up, think of and list everything your object is made of and all its previous incarnations back to the beginning of the universe. (Coke cup example). Nothing created, nothing destroyed. 
"I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles." (Walt Whitman).

week of 12/4/12

12/6/12

Goal: Revisit Tuesday's topic and share some work. Spend some time on the portfolio. 

First Step: 

10 groups: 

1. read your poem in your group and mark your favorite moments. 

2. Be ready to read the poem with the class and talk about one specific thing you really like about it.

Portfolios

An Online option:

http://www.wix.com/ (some examples and advice)

Friends website

Time to work on portfolios


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12/4/12

Goal: More Wrap-up. What's the connection between love and poetry?

Don't forget your portfolios! You have 9 days. I had to change the due dates 

Portfolio


Homework (for Thursday): Write a love poem to an abstract concept. (Example: "Love Poem to Justice" "Love Poem to " or "Love Poem to Envy" of "Love Poem to Sadness")

• Needs to contain at least five concrete images (descriptions that appeal to our senses)
• Needs to ask one rhetorical question (a question that is not meant to be answered)

First Step: "Love" by Stephen Dunn. (On the doc camera)

Now Your small Edmodo groups, discuss these concepts. Post your answers on Edmodo. Be ready to discuss in 15 minutes or so.

1. How do you measure love? How does society measure it? Is it about excitement and pleasure or about commitment and emotional connection? Explain.

2. How do you think popular images of love influence you as a teenager? Do you think it might be different with other age groups? Explain.

3. Do you think popular contemporary images of love reflect your own experiences of love? If so, how? If not, how?
4. Last class we talked about the connection between poetry and our place in the universe. What is the connection between love and poetry.

Discuss

Talk about "Love Poem to an abstract concept" assignment. Brainstorm a list of abstract concepts to consider.