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Golden Shovel Poems

AGENDA:

Introduce Golden Shovel poems.

Write a Golden Shovel poem:

Golden Shovel Poem

HERE ARE THE RULES FOR THE GOLDEN SHOVEL:

• Take a line (or lines) from a poem you admire.
• Use each word in the line (or lines) as an end word in your poem.
• Keep the end words in order.
• Give credit to the poet who originally wrote the line (or lines).
• The new poem does not have to be about the same subject as the poem that offers the end words.

If you pull a line with six words, your poem would be six lines long. If you pull a stanza with 24 words, your poem would be 24 lines long. And so on.
If it’s still kind of abstract, read these two poems to see how Terrance Hayes used a Gwendolyn Brooks poem to write the first golden shovel:

• We Real Cool, by Gwendolyn Brooks (original poem)
• The Golden Shovel, by Terrance Hayes (golden shovel poem)

As you can see, the original golden shovel takes more than a line from the poem. In fact, it pulls every word from the Brooks poem, and it does it twice.
This form is sort of in the tradition of the cento and erasure, but it offers a lot more room for creativity than other found poetry.

Write a Golden Shovel poem. You can go to poets.org or poetryfoundation.org to find poems.

READING: How to Eat a Poem

WRITING:  Work on 30/30 poetry prompts.  Workshop next week?

Bennington Young Writers

http://www.bennington.edu/events/young-writers-awards

BOA Birthday Bash

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Mariangelis, Kaneil, Jyeshia, Raina, Asher

Poetry analysis

AGENDA:

EQ: How can poetry be analyzed?

Review HANDOUT: POETRY ANALYSIS


In small groups, read poems from How to Eat a Poem and analyze one poem using the handout:
Poetry Analysis Worksheet

WRITING: Work on 30/30 booklet poems.

Poet Laureate- Herrera

AGENDA:

Finish work from Thursday.

READ: How to Eat a Poem

STUDY AND READ:  Herrera
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/articles/detail/70252

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/52286

ACTIVITY: Begin 30/30 chapbook

Welcome Back/What is Poetry?

AGENDA:

1. Review of Course Criteria

2. What is Poetry? isearch

http://www.runspotrun.com/literary-terms/what-is-poetry/


https://www.arts.gov/operation-homecoming/essays-writing/what-poetry

http://www.shmoop.com/poetry/how-to-read-poem/what-is-poetry.html


http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/article.html?id=398

In groups, make a chart or poster that explains what poetry is and its basic elements



3. Readings from How to Eat a Poem


4. Begin 30/30 Project