Prepping for Poetry, Part 2: December 14, 2015

Focus: How do we apply our reading and writing skills to poetry?

If you have not conferenced with me on your A Long Way Gone annotations/journals, please turn yours in today.

1. Warming up with your found poetry--getting inside the poet's mind

2. Finishing your reading journals and doing a quick share

3. Outlining the synthesis paragraph and revisiting your hero's journey essays
(Here is the online version of the practice exam)

• Create a Venn diagram to synthesis "Flight 93" with either The Kite Runner or A Long Way Gone.

• Look at the overlapping section and use that to create your thesis.

• Find 1-2 quotations from the poem that defend your thesis (look to your journal).

• Think of 1-2 examples/quotations from KR or LWG that would defend your thesis.

• Running through your hero's journey essays to remind ourselves how to compose synthesis paragraphs.

HW:
Show up to your final with your laptop and brain fully charged. You may also want paper for brainstorming.

1st hour: Tuesday, 7:21-8:46

3rd hour: Wednesday, 8:56-10:21