Final Poetry Project -
to be handed in:
3 Paragraphs
(any drafts)
Prints of sources
5 Poems Printed
Works Cited
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Homework for December 16
Continue work on your poetry project.
For Monday, you should have
A draft of at least the first paragraph, which contains a thesis about some area of your poet's life, background, or experiences that impacted his/her work.
See the post below for the focus of the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs for this final project. Feel free to work on these as well.
For the final project -- to be handed in:
- Final draft and rough drafts of 3 paragraph examination of your poet
- Print outs of 4 resources, copies
- 5 poems printed out or copied by your poet
- Works Cited page of at least 4 sources (one book, one electronic journal, two other sources )
For Monday, you should have
- Collected all of your resources: 5 poems printed out, 4 resources printed to be included when handing in your final project
- Done the reading of the biographical sources that pertain to what you are most interested in about your subject.
A draft of at least the first paragraph, which contains a thesis about some area of your poet's life, background, or experiences that impacted his/her work.
See the post below for the focus of the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs for this final project. Feel free to work on these as well.
For the final project -- to be handed in:
- Final draft and rough drafts of 3 paragraph examination of your poet
- Print outs of 4 resources, copies
- 5 poems printed out or copied by your poet
- Works Cited page of at least 4 sources (one book, one electronic journal, two other sources )
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Poetry Project -
Poetry Research
Project
1.
Gather Sources –
Minimum
sources – 4
One
electronic source, one book, two other sources (could be internet, could be another Gale article, etc.)
2.
Gather poems – 5 in total by your author, which
should be printed out and included with the final paper that you hand in
3.
Notice patterns – in what you read and what you
learn about your own poet
Writing About Your Poet –
Three paragraphs -
First – thesis paragraph about how your poet was impacted by
his/her life, experiences, time in which he/she was living
Second - Explain some
of the major life events that led to your thesis and how he/she was impacted by the areas specified in your thesis - may be related to how, where, when he/she lived, life experiences, political ideas, etc.
Third – Take two of the poems by your author and explain how
your thesis is evident within the language, tone, meaning, etc. of each poem.
Also, utilize and demonstrate your knowledge of our studied poetry terms to
explain each poem. Poem’s titles are in
quotation marks.
Work on sentence structure and language used in your
paragraphs!
To be handed in
December 19, 2013 –
Three paragraphs – final writing plus any drafts, printed
copies of 5 poems by your author, Bibliography page (with at least 4 sources
that you have used to research) – use easy bib or Noodle bib to create
We will work in class on these Saturday, 12/14 and Tuesday, 12/17
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Homework - Week of December 9-14
For Thursday - Select a poet to study, let Mrs. Moody know you choice in class on Thursday. Start to gather some resources on biographical information as well as 5 poems written by this author. Consult the websites in the post below for some credible internet resources.
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