4/12/14
In Class:
Journal-- Reflect on last week's Poetry Jam--both your performance and performances of others. What did you take away from the experience?
Screened and discussed "Shrinking Women" by Lily Myers.
Introduced final project and reviewed an example portfolio.
In pairs, students defined and provided examples for the following poetic devices: assonance, consonance, alliteration, cacophony, onomatopoeia, and hyperbole.
Began discussing the notion of poetry as a means to rectify social injustice: "Poetry’s
mission is to subvert, to question, to challenge, provoke, to flail
one’s vulnerability and voice into the marvelous whirlwind of poetry’s
awe, flagging at the horns of the raging beast that is society's gluttonous comfort." - Jimmy Santiago Baca
Screened and discussed "Amand'la" by Slam NUBA (Dominique Ashaheed and Ayinde Russell). Read and discussed "The Physics of Being Mexican-American (Quantum Mexicanics)" by Ralph Haskins.
Exit ticket: Give an example of personification.
Homework:
Read the three remaining poems on Arizona SB 1070.
Find one song/poem that address a social injustice.
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