January 28, 2019

Objective:  I can define and discuss poetry in my own words and consider my own feelings around reading and writing it through reading from published poets (SL11-12.4).
Agenda:

• Entry Task:  Write your own definition of poetry as if it were your job to write for a company that publishes dictionaries.
  
  • As a class, let’s share at least 10 parts of our definitions by writing them on the board.
    
  • Dictionary.com definition:
    
    • the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
      
    • literary work in metrical form; verse.
      
• Cut and paste “Observations about Poetry” into your journal (“Poetry”)
  
  • Underline any quotes you love
    
  • Revise your definition of poetry as you see fit using some of the new ideas presented
    
• Cut and paste “Ars Poetica” by Archibald MacLeish into your journal.  
  
  • Read the poem—underline any lines you love.
    
• Cut and paste “Poetry” by Marianne Moore into your journal.
  
  • Read the poem—underline any lines you love.
    
• Write your own poem on poetry--any style, any form, any devices!
  
  • If you use any lines from today’s poems or “Observations about Poetry”, put them in quotation marks to show they are not your own.
    
• Exit Task:  Share your poem with a partner. Discuss whether or not you think it meets your own definition of poetry. Why or why not?