WARMUP: Read this quote from Robert Pollard, lead singer/songwriter/genius behind legendary indie rock band GUIDED BY VOICES. What do you think about his process?
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“I don’t write songs constantly, but I do keep ideas visually. I work every day from about 6am to noon. I keep notebooks full of ideas, titles and lyrics. When I feel the urge occasionally, I’ll combine them and brainstorm song ideas. I work on collages three or four times a week. To me it’s the same process and I frequently combine them. They’re equally satisfying. They both involve breaking down borrowed imagery, particularly from the 60’s and 70’s, and reconstructing it in to something that I hope is more interesting.”
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LEARNING TARGETS: By the end of class you should be able to
- share a plan for your poetry collection
- analyze where you feel comfortable and where you have questions with regards to the poetry terms, literary terms (handout given to you on first day of poetry unit).
ACTIVITIES
- Warmup
- Good Things
- Visual check of vocab packets
- Questions on Vocab.
- Independent time to plan poetry assignment and/or begin writing
POETRY COLLECTION SHOULD INCLUDE
- 4-6 finished poems
- At least twp from this list
- Artifact poem
- Where I’m from poem (introduced Tuesday)
- Season poem (use Steve Shilling’s as an example)
- Found poem (introduced Wednesday)
- Imitiation of Carl Sandburg’s Chicago.
- With each poem, a 1-2 paragraph, in which you reflect on
- your process for planning and writing the poem
- what poetic techniques you incorporated.
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