Plan for Wednesday

Welcome back from vacation! I hope you had a good one -- and are enjoying all the snow. Pretty crazy, huh?

(1) As a class, re-read the tips from Billy Collins (see Friday the 13th post) on reading poetry aloud.

(2) Choose a partner and spend 10 - 15 minutes reading your chosen Read Aloud poems to each other. If anyone is ready to practice with Leah, that would be great. If you don't have your poem, choose any poem by another person and practice with that.

(3) #6 Point of View / Voice Poem:

Write a poem in which you write in 1st person and take on the voice, vocabulary, and point of view of someone or something other than yourself.

A few possibilities:

• write from the point of view of your cat, dog, horse, etc.
• write from the point of view of a grandparent, or a baby, or a homeless person.
  
• write from the point of view of an inanimate object.
• find a news story in today's paper and write from the point of view of one of the people involved.
• find an animal shelter listing of a cat or dog -- and write a poem from the perspective of that animal.

When writing, you might choose to situate the person, animal, or object in a particular moment and a particular place -- and then go from there.

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Use any remaining time to touch up previous poems.

"Y'all" are producing some really good material. It's time to start thinking about moving toward a product. Where would you like to go from here in terms of producing a collection of poems? (We'll talk about this next time).