thursday october 30th, 2008 agenda warm up in notebook pp notes: ekphrastic poetry explanation...
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ThursdayOctober 30th, 2008
Agenda • Warm up in notebook• PP Notes: Ekphrastic poetry
• Explanation• Examples• 3 poems, 7 minutes each, 5 minute share
• Pizza (1st hour) / snacks (3rd)• Another warm up
• Scary Story Unit: “The Lottery.”
HOMEWORK STRIKE SYSTEM IN EFFECT: COMPOSITION NOTEBOOK OUT BEFORE BELL
Objective(s):• Practice poetry skills
by writing poems in response to visual stimuli
• Apply complex plot element skills by reading “The Lottery” in class and answering questions at the end in notebook.
Warm Up, 10/30
• What have you thought of the poetry unit so far in this class? What did you like the most/the least? Do you have any suggestions for me? How would it make you feel if I said you are going to write your own poetry today—why do you feel that way?
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Ekphrastic Poetry
• Ekphrastic poetry is poetry written in response to a visual stimulus.
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Ekphrastic Poetry
• In other words, viewing a picture, painting, or sculpture and writing a poem to it.
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Ekphrastic Poetry
• Your poetry can:– Tell a story– Express an emotion– Or be anything you want it to be!
• THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG ANSWER TODAY!
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Ekphrastic Poetry
• Take a look at a blank page in your composition notebook.
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Ekphrastic Poetry
• Take a look at a blank page in your composition notebook.
• Believe it or not, your poem is already on the page. It’s waiting for you to use your pen/pencil !
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Ekphrastic Poetry Examples
• Here are some examples!
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Ekphrastic Poetry Examples
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• Elephants• Standing• Gigantic• Red• Silence • A pillar• Fearfully• Men
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Ekphrastic Poetry Examples• Elephants,• Standing one by one,• Gigantic though they
may seem• Against the pale, red
landscape of• Silence.• A pillar,• Attached to their
backs, • Fearfully mocks the
small world of • Men.
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Ekphrastic Poetry Examples
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Ekphrastic Poetry Examples• The town does not exist
except where one black-haired tree slipsup like a drowned woman into the hot sky.The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.Oh starry starry night! This is howI want to die.
It moves. They are all alive.Even the moon bulges in its orange ironsto push children, like a god, from its eye.The old unseen serpent swallows up the stars.Oh starry starry night! This is howI want to die:
into that rushing beast of the night,sucked up by that great dragon, to splitfrom my life with no flag,no belly,no cry.
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Ekphrastic Poetry Examples
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Ekphrastic Poetry Examples
NO NOTES The place is the corner of Empty and Bleak,
The time is night’s most desolate hour, The scene is Al’s Coffee Cup or the Hamburger Tower,The persons in this drama do not speak. We who peer though that curve of plate glassCount three nighthawks seated there—patrons of life:The counterman will be with you in a jiff,The thick white mugs were never meant for demitasse. The single man whose hunched back we seeOnce put a gun to his head in Russian roulette,Whirled the chamber, pulled the trigger, won the bet,And now lives out his x years’ guarantee.
And facing us, the two central charactersHave finished their coffee, and have litA contemplative cigarette:His hand lies close, but not touching hers. Not long ago together in a darkened room, Mouth burned mouth, flesh beat and groundOn ravaged flesh, and yet they foundNo local habitation and no name. Oh, are we not lucky to be none of these!We can look on with complacent eye:Our satisfactions satisfy, Our pleasure, our pleasures please.
Ekphrastic Poetry Directions
1. I will show you a painting.1. The first minute we will discuss the painting—what we see,
how it makes us feel—the longer you stare at it, the more you notice (no joke!).
2. You will write for 7 minutes. NO TALKING—this is vital! You don’t have to write solid for 7 minutes, but stare at it, write it
3. After 7 minutes have elapsed, I will allow 5 minutes to sharing/discussion.
• Please remember, poetry is whatever you make it; a story, a rhyme, an emotion. Just write and be creative!
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Warm Up #2, 10/30
• You have just won the lottery. How do you feel? What are you going to do with your winnings? How are you going to celebrate?
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“The Lottery”
• What does winning the lottery mean in this story? How does that make you feel? Why does it make you feel that way? NO
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