12.17 - Poem Themes

In today's class we were looking at the themes and significance of the poems that people selected to recite for Poetry Out Loud. To prepare for this, we took a look at a poem together and how to successfully use quotes from a poem with our writing prompt. The writing prompt is included below. The poem we were looking at was "Under One Small Star" by Wislawa Szymbroska.

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Text in blue shows how I set up the quote by paraphrasing part of the line before using the parts of the quote on which I wanted the reader to focus.

After everyone had a chance to respond to this prompt, everyone shared their response with someone near them. We then went around and shared out which lines people had selected to write about (results below):

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Everyone then had the rest of the period to work on their response to the Poetry Out Loud theme prompt. I was on hand to answer questions.

Homework:

Finish the Poetry Out Loud theme prompt if you did not do so today in class.

Finish the “Poetry and Language” sheet if you have not yet done so.

Complete or revise assignments as necessary.