Friday, September 13, 2013

Pictures That Storm: Section 3, Collaborative Writing

Today, during 7th period, please gather in your assigned groups.
Group A: Mitchell, Jaymee
Group B: Radezia, Karla
Group C: Tyshay, Austin
Group D: Saisha, Izzy
Group E: Isaiah, Joshua
Group F: Aleah, Jacob
Group G: Grace (Grace, join any group that is missing a partner)
Yasmine & Tyshon, or anyone missing/absent today, please do the writing task alone.

Writing Task: 
1. Read section 3 in Pictures That Storm Inside My Head: "In Twos and Threes They Whisper Past My House."
2. Taking turns with your partner, each of you should take turns to select a word from each of the poems you read in section 3. This should be a total of 8 words (there are 8 poems in section 3).  Each partner taking turns will pick 4 words (4 x 2 = 8)

Example: 
Partner 1's words: black, look, smile, schoolbus  (4 words chosen from 4 poems)
Partner 2's words: gunwale, tea, casts, strike (4 more words chosen from 4 other poems)
3. Partners will write 1 line of poetry beginning their line with one of the chosen words.

Example:
Partner 1's first line, beginning with one word from his/her list: Look at the sunrise in its beauty...
4. When your partner has completed a line of poetry, let the other partner select one of their chosen words and complete a second line of poetry.

Example:
Partner 2's line, (2nd line of the poem): Like a gunwale resting on the bow of a ship. 
5. Continue to do this until you have written 4 lines of the collaborative poem, and your partner has written 4 lines of the collaborative poem.

Example:
Look at the sunrise in its beauty
Like a gunwale resting on the bow of a ship.
Black stars invisible behind night's eyes
Strike us dreamers as a cold memory. Who will
Smile today after a shadow
Casts its net of grief over our heads?
A schoolbus of children is not as loud as our dreams who drink
Tea and chat about the empty promise of the day.
When you have composed your collaborative poem, please turn it in for participation credit.

In the lab, please continue to work on the assignments for MODULE 0 in eLearning.

HOMEWORK: None.

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This course stresses understanding the characteristics & techniques in the literary genres of fiction, poetry, and dramatic writing. This course will continue to build on students’ reading and writing skills begun in previous creative writing classes. Readings and discussions of works by major writers in the field will be examined as inspiration and models of fine writing. This educational blog is designed for the use of the students at the School of the Arts in Rochester, NY.