DW: Pleasure

Read the Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu

• read for understanding but as well as deeper ideas and meaning
• use of literary devices to enhance the short story
• write comments thoughts, analysis directly onto handout
• be prepared to answer questions about the story on March 28th

DW:  Gratitude

Compose two poems from the choice of three:

• Concrete/Blackout Poem
• Title Poem
• Texting Couplets Poem

Alternative choice:  If you choose to do a Pop Sonnet, you only need to do the one sonnet since it is a more difficult assignment

Concrete/Blackout Poem: 

• Based on the text handed out in class
• Visual poem:  black out words to create a poem
• you can also look at blacking out words to come up with a visual form for your poem
• no adding of words but you are allowed to draw on the page to enhance your poem

Title Poem:

• each student is assigned a section of books in the LC
• come up with a poem based on the titles
• no cutting or taking words…you must use the whole title
• you must use at least 10 titles
• you may add visuals/drawings to enhance your poem

Texting Couplets:

• come up with couplets that are “texted” to and from between two people
• text should be rhyming couplets and have rhythm
• at least 5 exchanges
• must be a conversation thread
• format needs to be what you would see on a phone when texting
• you may not add any visuals to the poem except maybe standard emojis that are available on a phone

Pop Sonnet:

• pick a popular song (safe language please)
• based on the lyrics…come up with a Shakespearean sonnet – remember it is very structured
• use your best Shakespearean vocabulary!
• you should attach a copy of the original lyrics (since I may not know the song)

You will have Friday’s class to work on it as well.

It will be due Friday, March 11th at the end of class

DW:  Admiration

DW:  Fear

We will continue on with your poetry analysis tomorrow…

Vocab Week 4 Quiz:  Friday,  March 10