Lucille Clifton is a contemporary African American poet. Her work has influenced generations of new poets and therefore her writing is a good model for our own. She was from upstate New York. In 2010 Lucille Clifton died of cancer. Her awards include a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (one of the highest poetry awards and honors) and she was a Poet Laureate.
As many African-American poets she tends to write about her experiences. She attempts to bring her voice to the forgotten or silent history of African-Americans.
With a partner please look up the following allusions used in Clifton's work. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper to turn in at the end of class with you and/or your partner's name on it. This is participation credit for today's class.
For LAB WORK (after reading Lucille Clifton's poetry): please compose a 1st draft of a poem in Lucille Clifton's style.
1. Choose either a similar theme, style, length, line, meter (free verse), persona, tone, etc. that Clifton uses.
2. Use appropriate imagery, sound devices, and/or allusions in your poem.
IF YOU FINISH YOUR POEM, please continue this class by reading and answering the handout ?'s for the chapter on IMAGERY. See homework below.
WHAT YOU MUST COMPLETE TODAY:
As many African-American poets she tends to write about her experiences. She attempts to bring her voice to the forgotten or silent history of African-Americans.
With a partner please look up the following allusions used in Clifton's work. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper to turn in at the end of class with you and/or your partner's name on it. This is participation credit for today's class.
1. Amira BarakaREAD the handout QUILTING. If you'd like, you may read this with a partner. It is sometimes better to read a poem out loud to hear how it sounds. Sound devices will be more obvious when read aloud. This also is a good way to practice your oral reading skills. As you read, pay attention to meter (if any), line breaks, enjambment, caesura, alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, diction, tone, metaphor, simile, imagery, allusion, stanza form, and so on.
2. Hector Peterson or Soweto Riots (1976)
3. Nelson Mandela & February 11, 1990 (what's the connection?)
4. Walnut Grove Plantation, South Carolina
5. Sotterly Plantation, Maryland, 1989
6. Drug abuse common in African American contemporary culture
7. Rosa Parks
8. Huey P. Newton
For LAB WORK (after reading Lucille Clifton's poetry): please compose a 1st draft of a poem in Lucille Clifton's style.
1. Choose either a similar theme, style, length, line, meter (free verse), persona, tone, etc. that Clifton uses.
2. Use appropriate imagery, sound devices, and/or allusions in your poem.
IF YOU FINISH YOUR POEM, please continue this class by reading and answering the handout ?'s for the chapter on IMAGERY. See homework below.
WHAT YOU MUST COMPLETE TODAY:
1. Take notes on imagery and poetry that we cover in class.HOMEWORK: If you did not complete your reading of the chapter on IMAGERY in class, please complete the reading and answer the questions on the handout regarding IMAGERY. This is due Tuesday, Oct. 9. There will be a unit test on poetry at the end of next week. Gather your notes and study our poetry terms, the writing process, and everything we have covered so far in the craft of writing. Please compose a poem draft in Lucille Clifton's style. Call this: Lucille Clifton Style poem draft #1.
2. Alone or with a partner, look up the allusions Clifton uses in the selected poems from her book: "Quilting". Turn in at the end of today's class.
3. Read (alone or with a partner) the selected poems from the book "Quilting" by Lucille Clifton.
4. Compose a 1st draft of a poem in the style of Lucille Clifton.
5. If you have time in class, please read the chapter on IMAGERY and answer the questions for that chapter as notes. Hand in your notes if completed. Otherwise complete reading and notes for homework.
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