Timeline


 * Tuesday, April 12th **


 * What makes poetry great?
 * Elements of poetry
 * Read Alberto Rios’ poem, “Seniors”
 * Begin imitation poem

** Wednesday, April 13 th **

**Check Homework Calendar**
 * Read Mary Ruefle’s poem, “The Hand”
 * Analyze
 * Continue working on imitation poem

** Friday, April 15th **

**Check Homework Calendar**
 * Share poems and provide feedback
 * Read Hal Sirowitz’s poem, “I Finally Managed to Speak to Her”
 * Analyze
 * Quickwrite: Free Verse

** Monday, April 25 th **


 * Read and Listen to Music
 * Analyze
 * Begin writing lyric poems using music as inspiration

** Tuesday, April 26 th **

**Check Homework Calendar**
 * Read Lisel Mueller’s poem, “Love like Salt”
 * Analyze
 * Quickwrite: Using a large metaphor
 * Continue working on poems

** Wednesday, April 27th **

**Check Homework Calendar**
 * Read Jane Yolen’s poem, “Fat is not a Fairytale”
 * Analyze
 * Share poems and provide feedback
 * Begin poem #3 (play on words, paraphrase-change society’s perception)

** Friday, April 29th **


 * Read Lynne McMahon’s poem, “Barbie’s Ferrari”
 * Analyze
 * Continue writing poem #3

** Monday, May 2nd **

**Check Homework Calendar**
 * Read Paul Blackburn’s “The Yawn”
 * Analyze
 * Quickwrite: Persuade
 * Introduce Digital Poetry Presentations

** Tuesday, May 3rd **

**Check Homework Calendar**
 * Share poems and provide feedback (revise and put in final portfolio)
 * Read and listen to Taylor Mali and Alix Olson’s slam poetry
 * Analyze
 * Slam Poetry Exercise
 * Work on Digital Poetry Presentations

** Wednesday, May 4 th **

**Check Homework Calendar**
 * Continue working on presentations
 * Work on finalizing portfolios

** Friday, May 6th **


 * Finalize portfolios and presentations

** Monday, May 9 th **


 * Final performances for slam poetry
 * Final portfolios due