Your Week, Your Time - 5/21

Hello Sophomore,

You are awesome for checking in and staying updated on assignments and due dates.

There is not much to add or report this week.  You are working independently and with your slam team - writing, reading, revising, re-writing, offering feedback,  practicing, scheming, and planning.  This is YOUR time to really implement all the skills you have taken on this year - voice, tone, poetic devices, speaking skills, writing for purpose and audience, etc...

You are in complete control with what you choose to put together regarding both the portfolio and your spoken word pieces. I know that you are all going to do your very best.  Please ask me for input and advice, I am always willing to let you know how your writing impacts me as a reader.

Be sure to view other spoken word poets online.  You can learn from and imitate style, content, body language, voice control, etc. Get ideas...but be original in your writing and delivery. 

Please note the following due dates.  No work will be accepted late.  Use your class time effectively.

Tuesday 5/22 and 5/29 - Office Hours/Tutoring - after school.
Use this time to type and/or print. Plan on your printer breaking the night before your work is due.  Your last minute freak out session is not my problem.

Extra credit - If you were one of the few individuals that approached me about this opportunity - good for you.  This opportunity has now expired.  The due date is Weds. 6/6

Poetry Slam Competition begins on Tuesday 5/29.  If you are absent when your team performs - you essentially forfeit your grade with this task.

Poetry Portfolio is due on Friday 6/1.  Please see previous posts for the expectations and needed assignments.  Please take as much liberty as you need to make this portfolio unique and true to you.

Goodreads - Please post your book commentary by 6/4.  There will be no time to revise with this entry - so please proofread and make sure the work is yours.  The grade/credit you get will be the grade/credit you get.  Do not write summaries.  Rather, use the checklist and provide YOUR insight and feeling about the book, the content, the conflict, the characters, and the author's use of literary devices.  Include the theme(s) and connections that you or any other reader may or may not have.  Please just be honest.

There will be one last post before the end of the school year.  There will be one last assignment to help you with your final grade.  There is NO final in our class - your attendance and participation on our last day together will be enough.

With that being said, please work hard these last 15 days.  Be proud of the work you are doing - it is a real pleasure seeing how far you have come as skillful writers and wordsmiths.

Write On.

Samakosky