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Thursday, August 31, 2017

Poetry Karaoke: Upcoming Summative Project




What is poetry karaoke?

That's when you scan a song and then find a poem of more or less the same meter and combine. Then you sync the instrumental with your poetry version.

Wanna see an example? This is Shakespeare's renown Sonnet 18 matched with Pharrell Williams's "Happy".

So take a song scan it and try to match it to a poem. You should only use this search engine to guarantee you have a renown poem. Try sticking to poems before the 20th century. That will almost guarantee that you´ll have some form of meter.

This will be a summative assignment. It will be graded according to this rubric.

This will be due on Friday, September 15th.

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Noredink

I have noticed that not everyone is completing the noredink assignments designed to improve your grammar skills. These grammar skills are evaluated in your writing (i.e, the timed writing we just completed). To further underline the importance of said skills we are going to have quizzes based on the grammar lessons in class.

A capitalization quiz (formative) will take place next Writers Workshop.

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Homework for Thursday or Monday (depending on section)

Read the first chapter of The Awakening as slowly and with as much attention to detail as you can. Use post-its for questions and inferences.

The Awakening Questionnaire

In class we'll be filling this questionnaire out together.