Hello Sophomores,
Please note the schedule below. Be ready to engage with our guests. Please take notes on ideas, tips, strategies...anything that can assist you with your writing, your portfolio, and your Slam Team performances. Make sure you are writing and revising daily. Enjoy our last few weeks together.
Due Dates:
Portfolio -Due on Weds. 5/29
Slam Tournament Round One - Begins Weds. 5/29
Final - 6/10 - Period 1, 6/11 - Periods 3,4
* Be sure to study the poetry terms in your packet
Poetry Club - We meet TWO more times 5/22, 5/29. Attend/Share/Perform/Practice...
Your Homework for the entire week is to work on your portfolio. Please use the checklist that you were given in class. This project is not about completed works, rather it is about your BEST works.
Monday
* Spoken word poet - R. Preston Clark
* Watch Preston perform his amazing poem " An Ode To My Pen"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRm4j3RL9jY
Tuesday
* Spoken Word poets - Rolland and Sherwin
Wednesday
* Visit from our Counseling Department - Tobacco
Thursday - Short class periods due to Senior Portfolios
* Sonnets
* Write your own Sonnet!
* Read/Annotate/SIFT/Respond - Shakespeare - Sonnet 130
http://shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/130.html
Friday
* Slam Team WRG - Prep for Round One
* Read, Write, Revise, Plan, Share, Practice
There is NO SCHOOL on Monday 5/27.
WRG on TUES 5/28 to prep for Slam Round One
Work Hard! Play Hard! Slam Hard!
S(l)amakosky
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