week 28--March 21-24

Objectives:
Identify, employ and create advanced diction in poetry
Reflect, revise, extend and make more sophisticated student writing

Monday 3/21
Revise and peer evaluate the Education Technology synthesis essay\
5 word exercise for two poems
      select 5 words from the first poem that are most pivotal
      define, identify synonyms and etymology
classwork = 10 words and definitions etc from 2 poems
HW)  write your own 15 line poem in either rhymed or free verse

Laure-Anne Bosselaar Poems >>
English Flavors

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I love to lick English the way I licked the hard
round licorice sticks the Belgian nuns gave me for six
good conduct points on Sundays after mass.

Love it when 'plethora', 'indolence', 'damask',
or my new word: 'lasciviousness,' stain my tongue,
thicken my saliva, sweet as those sticks - black

and slick with every lick it took to make daggers
out of them: sticky spikes I brandished straight up
to the ebony crucifix in the dorm, with the pride

of a child more often punished than praised.
'Amuck,' 'awkward,' or 'knuckles,' have jaw-
breaker flavors; there's honey in 'hunter's moon,'

hot pepper in 'hunk,' and 'mellifluous' has aromas
of almonds and milk . Those tastes of recompense
still bitter-sweet today as I roll, bend and shape

English in my mouth, repeating its syllables
like acts of contrition, then sticking out my new tongue -
flavored and sharp - to the ambiguities of meaning.

  Tuesday/Wednesday 3/22 and 3/23

Class read aloud NYTimes on teen driving safety
 
5 word exercise for a poem
      select 5 words from the first poem that are most pivotal
     

"More Than Enough" by Marge Piercy

define, identify synonyms and etymology

classwork = 10 words and definitions etc from 2 poems
  write your own 15 line poem in either rhymed or free verse
10 tips on writing a poem

select one of the last five short essays to rewrite
HW) read student exemplar of well-developed version of invasive species essay
 Austin's Invasive Species essay
bring in your essay to revise in next class, along with iPad or other writing device

Thursday 3/24
Revise, extend and elaborate on one of the five term 3 essays
HW) final copy of revision