In Class:
Journal-- Write a poem in four-line stanzas about the worst class you’ve ever taken.
In the same way that poetry and art speak to social issues and broad audiences in order to make a difference, as Baca informs us, poems also speak to one another. On a grand scale, poetry tends to be a part of a universal conversation about what it means to be a human being, or how each of us defines the human experience. In a more obvious way, though, some poems speak directly to other poems.
As a class, we read “Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe (1599), “Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh (1600), and “Love Under the Republicans (Or Democrats)” by Ogden Nash (1930) and contrasted the different works:
Then, we compared two spoken word poems, "the mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks and "the father" by Shane Abrams.
Exit ticket: Approximately what percentage of your portfolio have you completed?
Homework:
Work on your portfolio! Due next Tuesday.
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