Monday, April 29, 2019
SPOKEN WORD GRAPHIC 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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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.
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
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Kid Poems and "If I had Only Known
If I Had Known
Related Poem Content Details
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.
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Asha Christenson and Wm Carlos Willams
Asha Christensen and Wm Carlos Williams
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)
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
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Invitation
INVITATION
TO GRADE 8 SPEAKERS AND POETS TO PRESENT
AT YOUR
PROMOTION CEREMONY ON MAY 18
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 8th 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.
IF POEM
If Poem for Fun
- 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 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 6th and for
ONE LAST TIME
RIDE MY WAY INTO
ETERNITY
Monday, April 8, 2019
Sunday, April 7, 2019
F.L.I.R.T. POETRY ANALYSIS
POETRY ANALYSIS USING FLIRT
PREZI
F.L.I.R.T
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Form/ Structure
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Can you make any comments on the way the poem looks on the page? Does each stanza (paragraph) tell you something different?
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Language
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What examples of interesting language can you find? (persuasive language, emotive language, short or long sentences)
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Imagery
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How does the poet paint images in the reader’s mind? Can you find examples of metaphors, adjectives, adverbs, similes, personification.
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Rhythm / rhyme
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Does the poem have a rhythm? Do any of the words rhyme? Can you find any examples of alliteration or onomatopoeia?
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Theme/ topic
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How would you describe the main ideas or message of the poem? What is it trying to tell the reader?
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Wednesday, April 3, 2019
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)
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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