"Let My People Glow" Lebohang Nova Masango

"Let My People Glow" by Lebohang Masango

"Madiba" by Bothale Boikanyo

Madiba Poem

SPOKEN WORD GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

SLAM (SHOUT OUT) POEM

GUIDELINES, TIPS, ORGANIZER
Link to Spoken Word Idea Generator and Organizer

1.      This is the most important step:

a.       WHAT ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT?

b.      What in YOUR world makes you mad, what makes you cry, what makes you crazy, what makes you jump for joy?

c.       What is something you cannot stop thinking about (passion and obsession are very closely related?

d.      Think outside of yourself

Write a few things down – brainstorm with a couple of friends – stay focused

2.      Start with a general outline of the poem.

a.       What is that “thing” that “issue” you wish to shout out about? __________________________________

b.      List 8 or so aspects or reasons you want to shout?

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2.	6.
3.	7.
4.	8.

3.      Now, here is an option about how to begin the writing process.

a.       Choose an event relating to the “issue” to begin the poem. You can just start vomiting ideas on a page, but if that’s too hard, then the event will help you portray the perfect feel, thought, and image to your poem. Set TONE even. If you have a specific idea that you want to relate, having the perfect event will help you get across your words. The event should be important or transformative to YOU. Name the event and the results – in other words, DESCRIBE the sequence of that event.

4.      Examples/Reasons

a.       Why does this issue get under your skin?

b.      What have you seen, heard, experienced?

5.      Now, how do you feel about the topic/issue–

a.       Get visual (Every time you think about this issue you want to puke, to laugh,  to crumble, or it makes your heart pounds, etc. – what does that look like?

6.      What’s the remedy for the issue?

a.       What is the solution?

b.      Is the problem solvable?

7.      Plug in some figurative language.

a.       What kind of comparisons can you make? 

b.      What can you allude to?

c.       What is it like?

8.      Think about a visual or something you can use as a backdrop when you perform.  Not necessary, but you might have a brilliant idea – if you do, then use it.

TIPS

* The one great thing about poetry is that it comes from the heart, body, and soul of the poet. No poem is wrong, and no poet is wrong for writing the poem.

The only thing you can do wrong in a poem is to not care about what you are writing about.

* You can express just about any emotion or idea in a poem, and as long as you know what you want to say, the words will follow. Vomit them up, clean it up later.

* Include fact, fiction, and personal reality to your poem. Include various myths to help your narrative poem along.  Allude to things.

* Use vivid, power words and strong adjectives to help create the picture. As a poet, you don't want to throw away your words to simplicity, such as "The brown dog chased the orange cat." Yes, the image is created, but what shade of brown, did he have spots? Was it a tabby cat? Were they thin, starving strays, or plump house pets?

 

* Go bold. Go big!

Guidelines for Spoken Word

GUIDELINES FOR SPOKEN WORD POEM    

DUE May 13 (EFH) May 14 (C)

SPOKEN WORD poetry is poetry that is written on a page but performed for an audience. Because it is performed, this poetry tends to demonstrate a heavy use of rhythm, improvisation, free association, rhymes, rich poetic phrases, word play and slang. It is more aggressive and “in your face” than more traditional forms of poetry.

Solo or with 2 or 3 partners

2-4 minutes

Must have an overall theme - cannot be random

Must come from a place of angst, a place in your heart, - passion is the driving force

Minimum 6 stanza w/6 lines in each stanza

Must memorize

USE exciting words - refrain from the mundane

CUT out the fat

USE poetic tools that help you create rhythm

            Alliteration, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, similes, personification, repetition, line

          Length, etc

READ aloud and make changes

PRACTICE with your group - be dramatic and passionate

Kid Poems and "If I had Only Known

Kid Poems and "If I had Only Known

If I Had Known

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BY ALICE MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON

  If I had known

  Two years ago how drear this life should be,

  And crowd upon itself all strangely sad,

  Mayhap another song would burst from out my lips,

  Overflowing with the happiness of future hopes;

  Mayhap another throb than that of joy.

  Have stirred my soul into its inmost depths,

                    If I had known.

  If I had known,

  Two years ago the impotence of love,

  The vainness of a kiss, how barren a caress,

  Mayhap my soul to higher things have soarn,

  Nor clung to earthly loves and tender dreams,

  But ever up aloft into the blue empyrean,

  And there to master all the world of mind,

                    If I had known.

Asha Christenson and Wm Carlos Willams

Asha Christensen and Wm Carlos Williams

Today:

Poetry Packet
A poem to analyze to write!

A poem to watch

• Write this next poem in your notebooks
• Think about it
• Write about it
• What does it mean
• Share
• Write your own poem in the style of William Carlos William

This Is Just To Say

William Carlos Williams, 1883 - 1963

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

Poetry Assessment Due Dates

GUIDELINES FOR SPOKEN WORD POEM    

DUE May 13 (EFH) May 14 (C)
Poetry Asssessment May 16 (C) May 17 (HEF)

SPOKEN WORD poetry is poetry that is written on a page but performed for an audience. Because it is performed, this poetry tends to demonstrate a heavy use of rhythm, improvisation, free association, rhymes, rich poetic phrases, word play and slang. It is more aggressive and “in your face” than more traditional forms of poetry.

Solo or with 2 or 3 partners

2 to 4 minutes

Must have an overall theme - cannot be random

Must come from a place of angst, a place in your heart, - passion is the driving force

Minimum 6 stanza w/6 lines in each stanza

Must memorize

USE exciting words - refrain from the mundane

CUT out the fat

USE poetic tools and figurative language that help you create rhythm

            Alliteration, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, similes, personification, repetition, line

            Length, etc

READ aloud and make changes

PRACTICE with your group - be dramatic and passionate

Invitation

INVITATION

TO GRADE 8 SPEAKERS AND POETS TO PRESENT

AT YOUR
PROMOTION CEREMONY ON MAY 18

Current students who

have a motivational message relating to school

or

a nostalgic message covering your 3-year MS experience

are invited to audition for the privilege of speaking on behalf of the 8^th grade during the ceremony.

If you are interested, have a look at the following calendar:

1)     Speak to Ms. Moreau by May 3 if you are interested;

2)     Have an idea of what message you might like to relay to your classmates and if your presentation is a speech or a spoken word poem and check in with Ms. Moreau once a week on your progress;

3)     Practice, rewrites, refinement and memorization by May 13 – you will work with Ms. Moreau on rewrites and refinement.

Sarah Kay

Sarah Kaye: "If I Should Have a Daughter"

IF POEM

If Poem for Fun

IF POEM

• Begin with the prompt “if” and imagine the possibilities in life, both now and in the future.  
• Any word can follow the word if, the most common being “I”.  
• But challenge yourself to find another word, especially a noun, i.e: if pigs flew; if the world; if dolphins; etc.  
• Use your imagination.  
• Be silly or serious.  
• Here are a few examples of IF poems.  Use YOUR NOTEBOOK TO work out your poems, which should probably be at least 4 TO 6 STANZAS OF 4 TO 6 LINES EACH.
•  

'if' by rudyard kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will, which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

 “if” by Donna Moreau

If I were 100 years old

My hair would be thin

My teeth would be gone

My mind blown apart

By all the strange wonders and evil things

I’ve seen in my long, lonely, and lovely life

If I were 100 years old

I would be too old to enjoy

My food

My kitties

My man

Maybe they’d be waiting for me somewhere in the clouds

If I were 100 years old

I’d lose my walker

Toss out my glasses

Throw off my granny gown

Strap on my leathers for

ONE LAST TIME

Hop on my Harley

Rev up the engine

Throw it in 6^th and for

ONE LAST TIME

RIDE MY WAY INTO

ETERNITY

Dylan Roth Walks into a Bible Study

Dylan Roth Walks into a Bible Study

F.L.I.R.T. POETRY ANALYSIS

POETRY ANALYSIS USING FLIRT

PREZI

F.L.I.R.T.

F.L.I.R.T

F Form/ Structure	Can you make any comments on the way the poem looks on the page? Does each stanza (paragraph) tell you something different?
L Language	What examples of interesting language can you find? (persuasive language, emotive language, short or long sentences)
I Imagery	How does the poet paint images in the reader’s mind? Can you find examples of metaphors, adjectives, adverbs, similes, personification.
R Rhythm / rhyme	Does the poem have a rhythm? Do any of the words rhyme? Can you find any examples of alliteration or onomatopoeia?
T Theme/ topic	How would you describe the main ideas or message of the poem? What is it trying to tell the reader?

Spoken Word Guidelines and Due Dates

GUIDELINES FOR SPOKEN WORD POEM    

DUE May 13 (EFH) May 14 (C)
Poetry Asssessment May 16 (C) May 17 (HEF)

SPOKEN WORD poetry is poetry that is written on a page but performed for an audience. Because it is performed, this poetry tends to demonstrate a heavy use of rhythm, improvisation, free association, rhymes, rich poetic phrases, word play and slang. It is more aggressive and “in your face” than more traditional forms of poetry.

Solo or with 2 or 3 partners

2 to 4 minutes

Must have an overall theme - cannot be random

Must come from a place of angst, a place in your heart, - passion is the driving force

Minimum 6 stanza w/6 lines in each stanza

Must memorize

USE exciting words - refrain from the mundane

CUT out the fat

USE poetic tools and figurative language that help you create rhythm

            Alliteration, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, similes, personification, repetition, line

            Length, etc

READ aloud and make changes

PRACTICE with your group - be dramatic and passionate

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Thursday, April 19, 2018

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Dylan Roth Walks into a Bible Study