Monday/Tuesday April 4 and 5
Collect haikus or limerick
Read Nick Kristof's "When White's Don't Get It, part 6"
Doing the Implicit Association Test
back to poetry
How to write a sonnet
Instruction
Practice
HW) write a 14 line sonnet in iambic pentameter
Wednesday/Thursday April 6 and 7
1)Direct Instruction on sestinas
2) Collective Reading of two sestinas
Sestina Alataforte by Ezra Pound
A Miracle for Breakfast by Elizabeth Bishop
Writing a Sestina by Caroline Davies
Here's the form in case you lose the hand out.
The sestina follows a strict pattern of the repetition of the initial
six end-words of the first stanza through the remaining five six-line
stanzas, culminating in a three-line envoi. The lines may be of any
length, though in its initial incarnation, the sestina followed a
syllabic restriction. The form is as follows, where each numeral
indicates the stanza position and the letters represent end-words:
1. ABCDEF
2. FAEBDC
3. CFDABE
4. ECBFAD
5. DEACFB
6. BDFECA
7. (envoi) ECA or ACE
Classwork: work alone or with a partner to devise a sestina
HW) finish your sestina
Friday April 8
Using vivid language, imagery, and rhythm
write a narrative poem.
Here's How to Write a Narrative Poem
Here's a few narrative poems:
"Coloring Books"
"Repetition of Words and Weather"
Requirements:
5 stanzas of at least 4 lines a piece
A line that repeats or is slightly modified in each stanza
A story that proceeds through the stages of a plot:
inciting incident
rising action
complication
climax
resolution or denouement
HW) finish narrative poem,
underline words and phrases that may be improved
write revised, clean copy of narrative poem
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