Wednesday Wanderings

 Attend Virutal Town Meeting

Work on poetry and turn in poems (Sound and Golden Shovel) for Friday workshop.

Golden Shovel Poem

 3. Introduce the "Golden Shovel Poem" and Terrance Hayes

From Writer's Digest: Golden Shovel: Poetic Form By: Robert Lee Brewer | June 24, 2014 Earlier this year, I came across a mention of the “golden shovel” form created by Terrance Hayes and made a note to check it out. I’m so happy I did, because it’s a fun poetic form. 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. ***** Workshop your poetry! HERE’S MY ATTEMPT AT A GOLDEN SHOVEL: “Aging Well,” by Robert Lee Brewer -after Basho as translated by Allen Ginsberg The funny thing about growing old is you never know how to respond until after the fact. Like a frog that sits and then eventually jumps there’s absolutely no thought given to the process. You’re young; then, kerplunk! https://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/what-is-a-golden-shovel-with-peter-kahn/ www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/golden-shovel-poetic-form https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55678/the-golden-shovel https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/92023/introduction-586e948ad9af8 4. Write a Golden Shovel poem: Resources: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems?page=4 HOMEWORK: Create a "Golden Shovel poem" for Friday workshop

Sound Elements in Poetry

 1. Review last class assignment

Homework: Finish your imitation poem and upload/post for credit today or receive a missing grade! Finish your sound poem for Tuesday and upload/post on this assignment page 2. Sound Elements https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7a5JSNeyqI Alliteration Assonance Consonance Onomatopeia 3. Go to website: https://poetryhandbooksummer.blogspot.com/p/summer-exercises.html 4. Activity: Do the exercises on the website for exploring sound. Try to compose a poem. Be sure to finish exercise from last class and post for credit by today.

Response to Jericho Brown

 4. Jericho Brown:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-M0_eGmHWY https://poets.org/poem/tradition First Quickwrite : Post a comment about this poem (5 minutes) for participation credit on the padlet see padlet below DISCUSS

Response to Jericho Brown

https://padlet.com/10538811/2lijdri1tj4yxpn9

Welcome Back, Sophomores!

 

Welcome Back, Sophomores!

AGENDA:

Welcome Back

1. Introduction/Review Course Criteria/

Sign on and star Blog: craftofwriting2015/blogspot.com
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Go back to Google Classroom  

2. About Mary Oliver

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mary-oliver

3. Exercise: Poetry Imitation--Imitate a Mary Oliver Poem
https://projectreadutah.blogspot.com/2009/02/imitatingcopying-poetry.html

The Deer

You never know.
The body of night opens
like a river, it drifts upward like white smoke,

like so many wrappings of mist.
And on the hillside two deer are walking along
just as though this wasn’t

the owned, tilled earth of today
but the past.
I did not see them the next day, or the next,

but in my mind’s eye –
there they are, in the long grass,
like two sisters.

This is the earnest work.  Each of us is given
only so many mornings to do it –
to look around and love

the oily fur of our lives,
the hoof and the grass-stained muzzle.
Days I don’t do this

I feel the terror of idleness,
like a red thirst.
Death isn’t just an idea.

When we die the body breaks open
like a river;
the old body goes on, climbing the hill.

~ Mary Oliver ~

5.More about writing poetry:
https://www.creative-writing-now.com/how-to-write-a-poem.html

Week #4 MP4--Work-in-Progress MultiGenre Project

AGENDA:

Work-in-progress-- MultiGenre Projects
I hope you are doing well. I have not heard from many of you, and you need to try to make contact so that I know you are okay (even if you are having difficulty getting work done)! I miss you and care about you. I keep checking your grades to see if you are at least getting work done for other classes.

1. This is the second week of working on your project at home by doing the writing , drawing, collecting images, creating documents, and/or taking photographs, etc. You can be so creative with this and show off all your writing abilities in different genres.

Next week (Week 5) , May 18-22, will involve presentations on Zoom.
FINAL PORTFOLIOS will be due June 8 (instructions to come)
Send Senior Coffeehouse videos to Linden Burack by May 15.

2. Please UPLOAD at least 4 items for your multigenre project by this Friday, May 15, in Google Classroom for grading this week.
I will also post a "checking in" assignment for classroom credit.
You also receive credit for attending Zoom Office Hours--Thursday, 11 am.

3. Feel free to email me with questions and concerns.
It looks like grades for this marking period will be: PD (Pass w/ Distinction, 85-100), P (65-84), INC (has not met the standards for this course). If this is a semester course for you, you may not receive 1/2 credit for it and cannot redo it in the summer.

Stay well and safe!

Week 3 MP4--Assignment #3--WORK ON PROJECT/REPETEND

AGENDA:
Work on your projects at home.  Upload text, images, "artifacts" and other elements of your work to show your progress to Google Classroom for FRIDAY, May 8.

FIND A REPETEND FOR YOUR PROJECT:

What is a Repetend?

Because multi-genre projects are unique and non-linear, they require a lot of work from a reader.  You, as a conscientious writer, do not want to let your reader get confused as they move from genre to genre. If you provide your reader with reoccurring images or phrases, or a running commentary or even a narrative or story, you will create unity that will help your reader better understand your central theme. This can be much like making sure to weave your thesis throughout a traditional essay paper. We will use a repetend to provide that link among the elements of your project.

A repetend is a repeated phrase and/or image that is used in every genre of your multigenre project.  Repetends help to connect all of the pieces and are sometimes used to convey the message of the paper.  

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Ways to incorporate repetend in your multi-genre project:

• include the same phrase, sentence, or passage on each genre page as a heading or somewhere else in the text
• include a description or design in each piece (written or graphic), placed strategically for easy recognition

• create a character and follow his/her reactions to pieces

• create a character involved somehow in each piece of writing--an ongoing little story
• create a cartoon strip at the top or bottom of each genre page that comments on the ideas presented

Repetend Used: "And the beat goes on"  "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."  Tree, extended metaphor (seed, roots, branches)  Visual: Baby footprint  "The Land of Opportunity"  "Shattering Love or Seeking Justice"

Paper Topic: Woodstock  Neil Armstrong  Alvin Ailey  Abortion  Family History Project  Capital Punishment

http://shepardacademyjuniorblockspring.weebly.com/creating-a-repetend.html

More resources:
https://www.mshogue.com/ce9/multi_genre/multigenre.htm