More Poetry

Tuesday 22 May 2018 for Periods 2, 5 & 6 and Wednesday 23 May 2018 for Periods 1 & 7

Students read and discussed Langston Hughes' "Harlem," Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 KJV, and Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing."

Periods 5, 6, 1 & 7 talked about using 3x5 cards to study the research process for the research portion of the upcoming exam over poetry and research.  Period 2 needs to ask Mr. Stone about these cards at the beginning of class on Thursday.

Homework:  Select which poem best represents your assigned poet.  This may be the poem you find most frequently selected to include by this poet in anthologies or websites, or it may be you find a critic specifically states a poem that is representative of your assigned poet's unique style and/or voice.  Re-examining the sources you have already consulted will likely give you a list a characteristics that are associated with your poet.

You secondary keyword for these notes is representative.  Here are some tertiary questions with key words underlined:

What is the title of the poem that best represents your poet?

How is the topic of this poem typical of your poet?

How is the style of this poem typical of your poet?

How is the form of this poem typical of your poet?

How is the diction/word choice of this poem typical of your poet?


Make sure you have located the full text of the poem to include in your paper.  Do NOT copy out your selected representative poem on a note card.

You will need to write a paragraph of at least five meaningful sentences about the poem you claim to be representative of your poet.  Take enough notes to make this possible.

Including tonight's notes you should have a minimum of 30 note cards.