AGENDA April 28-May 2

Homework from Friday: Found poems
Weekly Homework: Find your poem, get it approved, and begin memorizing it. Use list of suggestions.

Notes:
*April is National Poetry Month.
*On May 2nd, at the Center for the Arts, student work from our 3rd Quarter Belief Project will be displayed. Some students will read their poems and essays. You will receive postcard invitations in the mail. Event is from 4:30-6:30. PLEASE COME to support our students!!!
*Students need to bring money for Post-PAWS-Pizza-Party. Party is May 7th for periods 1&4 and May 8th for periods 5&6.
*Final WNB due on May 9 (entries 17-25)
*Wednesday is a late arrival day. Students come at 9:40. Periods 1-4 only that day.
*Poetry Alive on Wednesday April 30: 1:40-2:25.
*Mary Oliver will be speaking at Walk Festival Hall on May 8. Free tickets available at Teton County Library with valid library card.
*Remember 4th Quarter Enrichment options. See me with your choices.

Essential Questions
➢ What was the Harlem Renaissance?
➢ How does poetry reflect and preserve culture?
➢ Can poetry function as resistance/revolution?

April 28
Share found poems
Introduce PHASE ONE OF SPEAKING AND LISTENING: Memorize and perform a poem – performances are May 7 and 8 – work with a partner. This partner will be your support figure, your debate partner, and your main student grader. Final performance grades will be averaged – partner grade, self grade, teacher grade.
*Distribute Assignment guidelines and grading rubric
*Distribute list of poets as suggestions
Weekly Homework: Find your poem, get it approved, and begin memorizing it

Poetry Selection:
Langston Hughes – Weary Blues, Dreams, and Theme for English B
Countee Cullen – Harlem Shadows and A Song of Praise
Bronx Masquerade Selction: Doubtless p. 118
*Terms: allusion, personification, simile, metaphor, extended metaphor, symbol

April 29
Read Aloud: Bronx Masquerade selection: Black Box p. 84 and For The Record p. 79
WNB 24: What bothers you about society or your position in it? What does it look like? How do you confront it? How can you conquer or resolve your conflict with it?
Now: Create a poem from your responses in WNB 24

April 30
LATE ARRIVAL DAY
POETRY ALIVE 1:40-2:25
Administrivia – check in with kids on poems

May 1
Read Aloud: Bronx Masquerade Selection
NLR: Mini-performance workshop: Eye contact, gestures, intonation
Writing Workshop: Finish and share Society Poems
*Sparker – Maya Angelou – Still I Rise

May 2
Bring poems to class for approval/pick partners

Poetry Selection: Women of the H.R.
Jessie Redmond Fauset
Gwendolyn Bennett
Mae Cowdrey

Collaborative Annotation

*HW for Monday: Annotate your poem and bring it to class on Monday.