Poetry Requirements
This unit is about rediscovering the beauty, imagination and awesomeness of poetry. I want this to be relevant to you and how we see poetry today. It's not necessarily about Haiku, Shakespeare, and rhyming, but whatever you want, in a form that you want. Consider this contemporary (meaning belonging to this time period) poetry.
Assessments:
As with all units there are speaking, listening, reading and writing components. Each one is important and each one has the potential to be marked (actually, all of this is probably going to marked in some way)
1. You will create three publishable poems. This may be of any length and represents something that is meaningful to you. After the poem, please write what your poem means and why it was important for you. Both the poem and the write up are important so please do not write only a few words with very little meaning. Please feel free to be as creative as you wish. You can create this poem in any way including song, video, art or just about anything. This will have to be different than the symbolism poem below.
-An oral poem (in the style of a poetry slam) - The length of this poem is necessarily long. You will present this poem on poetry slam day. At that time I will mark your poem. Length: 2-3 minutes.
- Symbolism Poem - This poem needs to have a written and an artistic component to it. The artistic part could be a picture, an animation, a sculpture or whatever. The artistic part is the interpretation of the poem. Instead of writing what the meaning is, use artistry to do so. This may be partnered if you wish. However, please know that if there are two of you creating this, the work must be even and the quality should show double the effort.
2. Interpretation
- You (and a partner, if you so wish) are to create a computer-based interpretation of a poem. You may interpret the poem using a combination of symbols and words. The length and poem are up to you.
- Interpret a favorite song/poem- Written explanation. The key idea here is to explain all the symbols, metaphors and ideas. Please tell me why this poem has meaning for you
-A written in-class assessment towards the end of the unit. Most likely, I will give you a favorite song/poem of mine.
3. Oral/Listening You will read your poetry slam poem day. Three days before poetry slam day, students will need to submit their poem to the teacher to inspect. You will then have three days to practice, one of which will be in front of a camera. Students will then watch themselves on the video and critique themselves. Rubrics to follow.
Assessments:
As with all units there are speaking, listening, reading and writing components. Each one is important and each one has the potential to be marked (actually, all of this is probably going to marked in some way)
1. You will create three publishable poems. This may be of any length and represents something that is meaningful to you. After the poem, please write what your poem means and why it was important for you. Both the poem and the write up are important so please do not write only a few words with very little meaning. Please feel free to be as creative as you wish. You can create this poem in any way including song, video, art or just about anything. This will have to be different than the symbolism poem below.
-An oral poem (in the style of a poetry slam) - The length of this poem is necessarily long. You will present this poem on poetry slam day. At that time I will mark your poem. Length: 2-3 minutes.
- Symbolism Poem - This poem needs to have a written and an artistic component to it. The artistic part could be a picture, an animation, a sculpture or whatever. The artistic part is the interpretation of the poem. Instead of writing what the meaning is, use artistry to do so. This may be partnered if you wish. However, please know that if there are two of you creating this, the work must be even and the quality should show double the effort.
2. Interpretation
- You (and a partner, if you so wish) are to create a computer-based interpretation of a poem. You may interpret the poem using a combination of symbols and words. The length and poem are up to you.
- Interpret a favorite song/poem- Written explanation. The key idea here is to explain all the symbols, metaphors and ideas. Please tell me why this poem has meaning for you
-A written in-class assessment towards the end of the unit. Most likely, I will give you a favorite song/poem of mine.
3. Oral/Listening You will read your poetry slam poem day. Three days before poetry slam day, students will need to submit their poem to the teacher to inspect. You will then have three days to practice, one of which will be in front of a camera. Students will then watch themselves on the video and critique themselves. Rubrics to follow.