Blogger #1 - Haoran Chen - Period 9 - 11/6/20, Day C, Freshmen Lit 2021
Introduction / “Housekeeping”: Everybody settled into the meeting room and attendance was taken. Mrs. Peterson shares her screen and explains a few things before we start our lesson. She announces that this week was the first week of blogging and talks about the few things that should be in our blogs such as links, images, etc. A sample of a past student’s blog is being shown to help us understand how a properly, well done blog should look like. An email will be sent to our parents about parent-teacher-conferences and the times/certain people that would speak to Mrs.Peterson. She suggests that you should only speak with your teachers only if you have challenges or difficulties in class or about the course.
Aim: How can we use the poem, “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams as inspiration for our own poems?
Do Now: THINK/PAIR/SHARE! Describe a time when you or someone you know did something that was “technically wrong” and you should have felt sorry for it but you didn’t?
Do-Now Discussion: A couple of our classmates talked about their experiences when they took something from siblings or friends but didn’t feel sorry or bad about it. Mrs. Peterson describes her experience about when her friend took a blouse from a different person and accidentally spills a drink on the blouse / Mrs. Peterson talks about her childhood experience and that her step-dad broke something from the house. She was blamed for breaking it because since she broke
After discussing the do now, a couple of students read the poem “this is Just to Say”, by William Carlos Williams. Mrs. Peterson teaches us how to properly use the conjunction, but and what it means. She says that using but shows the reason why this did something, however, they aren’t sorry for doing it.
After spirit reading “Variations on a Theme,” Mrs. Peterson talks about how the structure of the poem is different, but it contains the same idea as the other poems. Mrs. Peterson then gives us five minutes to create a “This is just to say” poem and whoever comes up with the most poems in that time gets thirty points for their team. A student with five poems created about her and her sister in only five minutes won the thirty points for their team!
We moved on to learning about using imagery in poetry. Using imagery in poems can express feelings and allow readers know how we feel. We watched a video talking about imagery in poetry with many examples of imagery in poems.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/UxASvORGoG4
Imagery - a poetic device that uses our all of our five senses
Imagery stimulates the imagination and takes the readers to our minds using the five senses. Some of the main key takeaways from the video includes creating poems that evoke our five senses and that imagery is more than what it seems to be. Imagery uses descriptive words to bring out an idea like the story that we have read in our first class about the pizzas. Examples of imagery from the pizza lesson such as , “Spinning of the pizza, the closing of the oven, and spreading of the sauce,” makes the poem more interesting and evoking.
The poem “Fast Break” by Edward Hirsch was then being spirit read and annotated. The poem describes a boy playing basketball. The poem’s structure is basically a really long run-on sentence and barely had any punctuations. It has a very free, unlimited form and uses a numerous amount of words about one thing. Before breaking us into groups to work, Mrs. Peterson talks about the assigned homework. We are responsible for creating a poem about a past experience and you are allowed to use the words from the word bank for some inspiration. She doesn’t want us to give a lot of sentences and wants lines instead. Minimum number of lines is 20 lines of poem.
Student Reflection:
In today’s lesson, I learned about the importance and the usage of imagery in poetry. I also read some poems that were completely new and different to the type of poems that I usually read, which was pretty interesting. Some of these poems, such as “Fast Break”, is like a long, continuous sentence instead of using multiple sentences to form a poem. The reason I learned this was to progress my knowledge of reading and writing. Poetry isn’t really used in the real world but I will try my best to apply this knowledge in the future if it's to write to someone or just for fun.
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