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Poetry Slam poems: Gr 12

Block B & D: be ready to present your poetry slam poems on Monday.  You may pre-record an audio or video clip or present in class.  Must be 2-10 minutes long.  Looking forward to it!  Prizes for best poems :)

Block H: be ready to present your poetry slam poems on Tuesday. You may pre-record an audio/video clip or present in class.  Must be 2-10 minutes long.  Looking forward to it! Prizes for best poems.

 

Eng12 Block B

Questions for poem due Monday.  See below:

 

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“Dulce Et Decorum Est” By: Wilfred Owen

 1. The last line of the poem (and title) is a famous Latin quotation from the Roman poet Horace. It means, “it is a sweet and glorious thing to die for one’s country.”  What is the poet’s comment on this statement?

2. Which elements of the poem seem "unpoetic"? (Not typical of what one imagines to be poetry).

3. What does the poem gain from moving from plural pronouns and the past tense to singular and the pronouns present tense?

 4. How do the comparisons in lines 1, 14, 20, 23-24 contribute to the effectiveness of the poem? Explain the imagery in detail.

English 10: Speeches!

Be ready to deliver your speech that is 5-7 minutes on Wednesday, December 19th.  You will be graded on:

 Poise (dress, precision, platform manner, eye contact)

Voice (clarity, precision, projection, pace, pitch)

Style, Organization, Language and Mechanics (development of topic, grammar, appropriateness; argument clarity, cohearence, and whether your argument is logical)

Content (insight, originality, intro/body/conclusion, adequately developed, variety of information, length)

Audience appeal (interest and response)

Grade 12: Block B and D Homework for Wed. Dec 12

Analyze the poem "Cut" by Sylvia Plath and "mark-up" the text following the TPCASTT analysis method (I've attached one if you can't find yours).  Also, make sure to find one simile and all the metaphors.  Explain how the imagery contributes to the meaning/ your understanding of the poem. See Poem attached.

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Block B and D Gr 12: Metaphor poems Due Mon. Dec 10

After reading Emily Dickenson's "It Sifts from Leaden Sieves", create your own metaphor poem.  Use "it" like Dickenson, so that the reader has to interpret your metaphor.  Remember to create vivid imagery.

CRITERIA:

-Your poem can be written in free verse or you can create a rhyme scheme.

-Create vivid imagery

-It must be 10-15 lines (if you have a 1 word line for stylistic effect just remember that it doesn't count as one of the 10-15 lines.

TIP:  Before writing the poem, brainstorm as many things you can about your "it" – object/season/thing.  Remember that Dickenson's poem compares snow to may things associated with white etc: "a crystal veil", powder, the sleeves of a queen's puffy shirt or her bloomers!

Here's a sample one I found:

First it is a sailboat bobbing gently in the ocean foam Then it is like a spring lamb bounding across a sky-meadow And then it is a sweet swirl of vanilla ice cream in a blue china bowl And now it becomes a mound of fresh, fluffy popcorn Changing into a circus elephant, plump and gray Forming a tropical island covered in sparkling white sand And it is soft and puffy like pink cotton candy And now I watch it float peacefully away over the purple horizon.

Answer: it is a cloud!