Poetry Out Loud presentations!

	Period 1 Thursday			Friday
Lyssa	City of Sleep		Henya	Beautiful Wreckage
Ricky	It Couldn't Be Done		Zachareah	Love Lives Beyond the Tomb
Gabriel	After Working for 60 Hours		Dariana	Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
Mikalah	Stopping By Woods		Thomas	Chord
Brandell	Arrow and the Song		Wilson	Discrimination
Shadea	???		Vivian	Arrow and the Song
Abraham	Invictus		Gabriel	After Working for 60 Hours
Richard	Across the Bay		Jeanette	Self Help
Aislinn	My Papa's Waltz		Kevin	Silence
Elaina	Arrow and the Song		Mauricio	A Farmer Remembers Lincoln
Nisa	I'm  a Fool to Love You		Dayshon	Invictus
Dwonya	Caged Bird		Virginia	April Midnight
Adele	Pied Beauty
Justin	Saturday's Child
Joel	???

Period 3

	Thursday			Friday
Lukasz	Hunger Moon		Angel	The Waking
Elsy	Waving Goodbye		Juleen	When I was Fair and Young
Nina	The Obligation to Be Happy		Grabiela	???
Laucilene	At the Vietnam Memorial		Ana	Let it be Forgotten
Jolie	The Blues Don't Change		Cassandra	The Legend
Edward	In a Dark Time		Angela	Abandoned Farmhouse
My Nguyen	Experience		Isamar	13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Keena	April Love		Jaedah	Domestic Situation
Ethan	If Mama Could See		Jacques	Lazy
Aaliyah	Deliberate		Theyana	All this and More
Jonathan	Hope is the thing with Feathers		Emmanuel	After Working 60 Hours
Lucy	Beginning		Cristian	The War in the Air
Isaiah	Caged Bird
Tiarra	Enough
Duy	Four Portraits of Fire

Period 4

	Thursday			Friday
Nicolas	A Poison Tree		Valeria	Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Braxton	I Am		Jalen	Days Gone By
Monica	???		Emily	The Cities Inside Us
Vangjel	They Flee From Me		Kianna	The Enpty Dance Shoes
Nhon	Plaint in a Major Key		Steven	What to Say Upon Being Asked to be Friends
Nicolas	A Poison Tree		Jason	Not Guilty
Cristiano	When I Consider		Victoria	The Bad Old Days
Brian	Lazy		Diem My	Winter Remembered
Aaija	Alone		Fong	Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
Eric	The Road Not Taken		Amanda	I, Too
Molly	???		Ford	The Uniform
Carlos	April Midnight		Stephanie	The Road Not Taken
Vanessa	The Kiss		Yunling	Two Guitars
Brian	The Man He Killed		Jehry	Solitude
Kevin	Corn Maze
Monica	???

Period 5

	Thursday			Friday
Jonathan	Eating Poetry		Jocelyn	Self Portrait
Stevelyn	Saturday's Child		Karen	A Thank You Note
Megan	???		Stephen	The Waking
John	We Wear the Mask		Julia	The World is Too Much With Us
Tamia	I am the People, the Mob		Steven	Their Bodies
Allison	The End of the World		Alexa	Sanctuary
Eric	April Love		Linh	Be Music, Night
Holly	Broken Promises		Wendy	Enough
Samantha	???		Jessica	Spring
Nickson	I Felt a Funeral in my Brain
Vicky	My Grandmother's Love Letters

Memorizing your POL poem

Now that you have selected a poem for our Poetry Out Loud recitation, time to get memorizing. Here are three ways to help with the memorization:

1) record you saying the poem. Listen to it. Listen again. And again. Repeat.

2) watch a youtube performance of your poem (ideal) or a student video (not as ideal). Hopefully, someone uploaded an actual POL performance. Watch and see how the student becomes the speaker of the poem.

3) use Quizlet to enter your poem as a series of lines. Scatter. Done.

Meme TKAM

Meme Elements 
-a direct quote from To Kill a Mockingbird
-a phrase employing the argot of teenagers, or allusion to a meme
-an image from the film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird 
-skillful composition of text and image

11/12 Can you read? Dual narrative voice & humor

Can you read?

Today's class asked this question of material previously "read" for homework. However, our struggle to even summarize two pages of To Kill A Mockingbird so challenged us that it seems that we can't read.

The good news: identifying dual narrative voice helps us understand our "job" as a reader

The bad news: reading is hard

Be honest with your reading. When you get to the bottom of a page, and you have not understood what was said, stop and go back. Break down sentences into meaning chunks; build from what you know, and ask strong questions when confused.

Be honest. You can't read.

11/7 child and adult world

Expanding our discussion of the dual narrative voice in To Kill a Mockingbird we are looking at how there are places where Scout and Jem struggle to understand adult topics:

• race separation
• class separation
• poverty
• education
• family
• religion

Often, it is Atticus or Miss Maudie who clues in the children on what is going on. We also notice that Jem is starting to understand more than Scout.

11/5 TKAM Thematic topics and Film reading

The first chapter of To Kill a Mockingbird introduces us to how Harper Lee uses five thematic topics in the novel:

• decorum
• traumatic violence
• race & class separation
• dialect
• ancestry

In starting our reading of the film, we wondered how the film could adapt "dual narrative voice." While the book switches between older and younger Scout, the film focuses on younger Scout with a voice-over of older Scout.

10/23 (R)eader RASH on "Everyday Use" + instagram

Solid, solid, solid work with the critical reader passages today! Alice Walker's story is layered, and our RASHing unpacked lots of interesting and unexpected ideas. We introduced five Thematic Elements of Southern Literature (decorum, dialect, traumatic violence, ancestry, race+class separation) and will print images related to these topics for making posters tomorrow.

#nofilter
Here is my original photo of "The Museum of Bad Art" (visit as a Culture Vulture!)

and here is the photo "instagramed"

even without the filter, the image is "filtered" by my selecting what to put inside the frame