After grading your pop quizzes, there were a few things that needed to be covered again. Please CORRECT your quizzes and hand them in again for 1/2 of the original credit. Look back over the past few blog posts for the answers. Please keep your quizzes and homework, since you will be tested on the same material later in the course.
IMPORTANT: there are 5 steps to the writing process: 1. Coming up with an idea (usually using a technique). I often refer to this as brainstorming, but brainstorming literally is only one technique of many, 2. Composing (writing a draft or several drafts of a work), 3. Editing (correcting your mistakes in grammar or syntax, strengthening your writing, cutting or adding details, 4. Revision (changing your work's structure, theme, POV, adding or cutting based on feedback or advice from yourself or others), 5. Publishing (getting your work in print or in front of the public).
Again, some clarification about THEME. To put it simply, a theme is a story or poem's central topic, subject, or main concept. It can usually be summed up in one or two words. Major themes in literature include: life, death, love, and other common themes (see posts below).
Once you have a theme for your story or poem, you can think about its message or moral. What do you want to communicate about the theme? That's your MESSAGE.
In order to deliver the MESSAGE, a writer chooses a PERSONA: a narrator or mask which reflects the speaker's personality.
Today, you will write a draft of an original poem (see directions below). Choose a THEME, choose a MESSAGE for your theme, and create a PERSONA to speak or tell that message.
But first,
During 8th period, I will give you further instructions to develop a second draft of your poem(s).
IMPORTANT: there are 5 steps to the writing process: 1. Coming up with an idea (usually using a technique). I often refer to this as brainstorming, but brainstorming literally is only one technique of many, 2. Composing (writing a draft or several drafts of a work), 3. Editing (correcting your mistakes in grammar or syntax, strengthening your writing, cutting or adding details, 4. Revision (changing your work's structure, theme, POV, adding or cutting based on feedback or advice from yourself or others), 5. Publishing (getting your work in print or in front of the public).
Again, some clarification about THEME. To put it simply, a theme is a story or poem's central topic, subject, or main concept. It can usually be summed up in one or two words. Major themes in literature include: life, death, love, and other common themes (see posts below).
Once you have a theme for your story or poem, you can think about its message or moral. What do you want to communicate about the theme? That's your MESSAGE.
In order to deliver the MESSAGE, a writer chooses a PERSONA: a narrator or mask which reflects the speaker's personality.
Today, you will write a draft of an original poem (see directions below). Choose a THEME, choose a MESSAGE for your theme, and create a PERSONA to speak or tell that message.
But first,
1. Go to this website: Poet Seers.Complete the reading exercise handed to you in class today for 3 poems you read. Please hand this in by the end of 7th Period for participation credit.
2. Using what you've read as models to inspire your own poem, write a draft on a similar theme or in a similar style to those poems you read and liked. Save any draft as DRAFT ONE.Your draft is also due by the end of 7th period. If you finish early, feel free to try writing a second or third poem. Each draft of a new poem you create will go in your portfolio for future use.
During 8th period, I will give you further instructions to develop a second draft of your poem(s).
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