May 4-8, 2020

Option 1

Why Would I Do This? You have one more required poem due next Thursday, May 14th.  If you have not written another poem you would like to submit, try this one, and you can learn about other forms of Japanese poetry.
Objective: I can review the definitions of concision and juxtaposition (L11-12.4) in order to utilize them in creating my own haiku, senryu, and tanka (W11-12.4).
Agenda:

• Entry Task: What type of poem is the one shown below by Richard Wright?  If you know, how can you tell? If you don’t know, what can you identify about this form:
  Whitecaps on the bay:
  A broken signboard banging
  ​In the April wind.
• Follow along to the slideshow, jotting down important points in your journal as we go.  
• After the slideshow review the three types of poetry, in the handout  
• Exit Task:  Write your own haiku, senryu, and tanka then reflect on your experience using these forms of poetry.

Option 2

Why Would I Do This?  If you have yet to write *Short Lit., this is one of your final options.  It also gives you the opportunity to reflect on the importance and value of reading.  
Objective:  I can analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful (RL11-12.4).
Agenda:

• Entry Task:  Open the Letters Doc and glance through all of the letters/pictures. Select one picture that stands out to you and write in your journal why you selected that picture and what you find “fresh, engaging, or beautiful” about it.
• These images come from Velocity of Being:  Letters to a Young Reader; each letter was written by an inspirational figure and then an artist designed the art to go with the letter.  Follow the steps below:
  • Read the letter--copy any words or phrases you think the artist found particularly fresh engaging, or beautiful that you see in their picture.
  • Read the blurb about the author at the bottom of the letter.  Copy any words or phrases you think influenced the letter’s word choice.
  • Copy at least one full sentence from the letter you find “fresh, engaging, or beautiful” 
• Review your attitude/tone and mood wheel.
  • What is the difference between attitude/tone and mood?  Look back to your definitions if you need to.
• What mood did you experience while reading the letter?  Explain your answer in your journal.
• Now, if you were inspired by the letter and artwork, create your own in the attached handout.  This can be turned in for a *Short Lit. assignment; it must include artwork when you submit.  
  
• Exit Task:  If you can, print the letter and picture to go with this page of your anthology.