12.03 - Poem Meaning and Imagery / Book Pass

At the beginning of class today we returned to working with the illustrated stanza sheet for the Poetry Out Loud poems people have selected. Today, we focused on the question on the back at the bottom of the sheet:

Identify some key images from the poem that you feel are important to the overall meaning of the poem.
Describe how these images enhance the overall meaning of the poem.

In class we discussed how these responses should contain the following pieces of information:

1- Identify and explain the theme/message of the poem (using examples from the poem).

2 - Two images/moments that are key to understanding/appreciating this theme.

3 - Discussion of why these images/moments are key to understanding this theme.

Everyone had about 20 minutes to respond to this question. 

Next, everyone practiced reading their poem out loud for three minutes. In doing this, everyone was encouraged to read the poem once through and then repeat reading it until time was up or repeat specific sections until the end of the 3 minutes.

After practicing our poems, we transitioned to picking the next book for our class to read. I had copies of books on hand and everyone had three minutes to look at each book and take notes on it using our book pass note sheet.

We will finish this activity next class.

Homework:

If you did not do so in class, finish responding to the processing question on the illustrated stanza sheet.

Practice your Poetry Out Loud poem.

Complete or revise any other work for the course as necessary.