Aim: How can we use the poem, “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams as inspiration for our own poems?
Do Now: WHOLE CLASS DISCUSSION
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.
Several students shared incidents of them taking something from someone when they shouldn’t have. I remembered a time when I cheated in a basketball game, but since nobody noticed I didn’t feel sorry.
After the class discussion, we were instructed to read the poem “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams.
The poem was a note written by Williams’ to his wife after he ate her plums. It became one of Williams’ most popular creations. After we read this poem, the class read variations of “This is Just to Say.”
Your Turn Poem Challenge:
Your Turn Poem Challenge was a class activity where we try our best to create poems similar to “This is Just to Say” in 5 minutes. Tempestt was the winner. He came up with 5 poems and shared it with the class.
Using Imagery In Poems:
The word ‘image’ came from the Latin word ‘imago’ which means picture. Using imagery in poems allows readers to feel what the writer feels. To clarify the meaning of imagery in poetry, our class watched a video explaining the poetic device imagery.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxASvORGoG4)
We read short poems with imagery to fully understand how imagery structures poems.
The last poem we had to read is “Fast Break” by Edward Hirsch. The poem talks about determination in playing basketball. As we annotate the poem, we should look for literary devices and find examples of imagery that portrays the theme. Then, the class had to fill out a chart that identifies 2 literary devices and 2 examples of imagery that connects to the theme of the poem. My group said that there is personification and similes such as “A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn’t drop” and “In slow motion, almost exactly like a coach’s drawing on the blackboard.”
Our homework for this cycle was our 1st Anthology Pastime Poem Homework. We had to write a poem about a pastime as a free verse with at least 20 lines.
Lesson 5
Aim: How has poetic expression evolved in the 21st century?
Do Now: TEAM DISCUSSION
With your TEAMS discuss the following; Do you believe technology and the 21st century are ruining literature as we know it? Why or why not?
Some students felt that technology and the 21st century are ruining literature because the information can be misinterpreted and the structure of the literature may change. Other students felt that technology and the 21st century helps spread literature because people can easily search up literature from the internet.
Rupi Kaur’s Micropoems:
The class watched a video of Rupi Kaur speaking about her success with her poems such as The Sun and Her Flowers and Milk & Honey.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHkFFA5iGlc)
After we watched the video, the class had to read micropoems from The Sun and Her Flowers and Milk & Honey.
Where Can We Find Poetry:
Poetry can be almost found anywhere such as Instagram captions, tweets, and song lyrics.
Epic Poetry:
A genre of classical poetry written as a long narrative, usually about heroic deeds and significant cultural events.
#micropoemchallenge:
To end off the class, each student had to write a micropoem following the prompts:
Reflection:
This lesson taught me that imagery is very important in poetry because it allows the readers to picture what the writer is trying to say. By adding imagery, the readers can understand the main point of the poem more easily. This lesson is important because it teaches me how to identify imagery and other forms of literary devices in poems so that I can grasp what the poems are saying. This lesson will help me in the future because I will know how to write poems efficiently, using imagery and other literary devices in my writing so that my readers can feel my experience in the poem.
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