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Friday, November 7, 2014

11.07 - Poem Analysis & Socratic Seminar Practice

We started today's class by taking a look at a poem I wrote about unpacking poems (see below). Everyone read this poem and then responded to the following prompt by annotating the poem and writing in their writer's journal:

Annotate this poem identifying what figurative devices it uses.
Identify a place in the poem that you feel needs work in this poem and suggest edits.

After everyone had a chance to respond to this prompt, we discussed student answers.

Everyone then had time to begin unpacking their poem by annotating it. For homework, eveyone will use these annotations to begin writing about and analyzing their poem (see below).

We then had a short, practice Socratic seminar in which people discussed the article I handed out yesterday about federal prison inmates and the internet. Next week, we will wrap up Anthem with a Socratic seminar.

Handouts:
Unpacking Your Poem

Homework:

Complete your annotations and the unpacking your poem sheet on your Poetry Out Loud poem.

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