Introduction to Poetry and Chapter 8 Corrected

Devotional text: Psalms 77:13-15

Students swapped Vocabulary Energizer books with a classmate and corrected the classmate's Chapter 8 using answers provided by the teacher.

Mr. Stone began the class's discussion of poetry with Billy Collins' "Introduction to Poetry." Collins completed an MA and PhD in Romantic Poetry from University of California Riverside. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. "Introduction to Poetry" contrasts approaches to reading poetry.

Turning their attention to the English I Poetry Review handout, Mr. Stone used the life and writing of Natalie Diaz to discuss the concept of "speaker."

Students looked at a Bible to understand the primary difference between prose and verse: the line.

Mr. Stone went over the definition of "stanza" and the names for stanzas, noting techniques for remembering the number of lines each type contains by the meaning of the first part of each stanza name. Many of the stanza names relate to Spanish.

Mr. Stone used his own poem, "Feed Me Poems," to demonstrate five different types of stanzas.

Homework: Study for the Chapter 7 Vocabulary Energizers Test using the text and/or Mr. Stone's Quizlet stack.