Please take the first 5 minutes of class today to read the handout "Love Poetry", then gather in pairs/trios/quartets to discuss the different kinds of love poetry. Which of these poem forms have you written before? Which ones are new to you? Which ones sound interesting or challenging?
During the first half of 7th period, please read Andrew Varnon's poem: "Be My Sherpa" and the handout of love poetry (with models). Then, write your own love (or anti-love) poem.
You might find it helpful for your brainstorming to:
Draft Three: Stream of Consciousness
1. Examine your flashbacks. Find moments where your character can include digressions, get stuck on topics, trail off, etc. You are trying to replicate or reproduce how the character’s mind works.
2. Write these flashbacks using stream of consciousness.
Draft Four: Sentence length
1. Keep your sentences short and declarative in your non-flashback section of the story. Remember dialogue sounds more realistic when you speak in short sentences or fragments.
2. In your flashback scenes, find moments where you digress and create long, complex sentences. Use em dashes to indicate digressions. Use semi colons ; to connect related clauses (but don't over use these). Use commas to make a simple sentence into a complex one. Use an ellipsis … to indicate trailing off. Use repetition of phrase to expand a comment.
Ex: “They knew who had shot their fathers, their relatives, their brothers, their friends…”;
Use conjunctions to add phrases to your independent clauses (and, or, but, etc.)
3. Try to find a rhythm in your writing. Most paragraphs start out with short sentences. This allows for a certain length of speed. Then as your sentences get longer and more complex, you can slow or speed the eye of the reader. Usually, you want important information to be delivered slowly. The use of repetition helps create a meter and rhythm for your sentence structure.
HOMEWORK: Complete your Hemingway draft if you did not complete it during class this week (there should be four drafts, each one making your work stronger) I'm interested in the last draft, but keep all your drafts for your portfolio.
Complete the Hemingway collection by reading: "50 Grand", and the "Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
Be prepared for a test on the book when we return on Tuesday, Feb. 25.
During the first half of 7th period, please read Andrew Varnon's poem: "Be My Sherpa" and the handout of love poetry (with models). Then, write your own love (or anti-love) poem.
You might find it helpful for your brainstorming to:
- List objects, ideas, associative words on a page
- Find random words in a dictionary or thesaurus and write them down
- Find a random article from the internet and select a variety of words and include them on your list
- Listen to snippets of conversation and select random words from what you hear and write them down
- Be my...
- I love you like...
- You're my...
- You're not my...
Etc.
Near the end of 7th period, get into your workshop groups and share your poems. Print out any completed work and share as well, if you'd like.
Then, stay in your groups a minute during 8th period. Discuss the Hemingway stories: The Killers, In Another Country, and A Way You'll Never Be. Take notes and use your notes to study for our test on this collection when you return from break (Feb. 25).
Then it's back to writing. During period 8, please continue the next draft of your Hemingway story:
Draft Three: Stream of Consciousness
1. Examine your flashbacks. Find moments where your character can include digressions, get stuck on topics, trail off, etc. You are trying to replicate or reproduce how the character’s mind works.
2. Write these flashbacks using stream of consciousness.
Draft Four: Sentence length
1. Keep your sentences short and declarative in your non-flashback section of the story. Remember dialogue sounds more realistic when you speak in short sentences or fragments.
2. In your flashback scenes, find moments where you digress and create long, complex sentences. Use em dashes to indicate digressions. Use semi colons ; to connect related clauses (but don't over use these). Use commas to make a simple sentence into a complex one. Use an ellipsis … to indicate trailing off. Use repetition of phrase to expand a comment.
Ex: “They knew who had shot their fathers, their relatives, their brothers, their friends…”;
Use conjunctions to add phrases to your independent clauses (and, or, but, etc.)
3. Try to find a rhythm in your writing. Most paragraphs start out with short sentences. This allows for a certain length of speed. Then as your sentences get longer and more complex, you can slow or speed the eye of the reader. Usually, you want important information to be delivered slowly. The use of repetition helps create a meter and rhythm for your sentence structure.
HOMEWORK: Complete your Hemingway draft if you did not complete it during class this week (there should be four drafts, each one making your work stronger) I'm interested in the last draft, but keep all your drafts for your portfolio.
Complete the Hemingway collection by reading: "50 Grand", and the "Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
Be prepared for a test on the book when we return on Tuesday, Feb. 25.
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