PHEW! I never thought we'd make it.
You've got your poetry projects due when we get back from break. If you have any questions while you're working on the projects, please leave me a note here. I won't be checking my work e-mail often, if at all, over break and I want to be sure to get back to you ASAP. I will collect these in class on the 20th/21st.
Also, when we get back I will be checking your analysis logs for your paper. Remember that you're looking at literary devices used in the poem that you are analyzing. Go into depth - explore the different literary devices and how they show the theme of your poem.
Finally, Honors students, you should start reading Great Expectations. You have a reading schedule and study questions for the first twenty-five chapters. Remember that there will be extra credit available for those that read over break and I will give you this extra credit when we get back from break.
I hope that you all relax, sleep in, and read!
Have a great break!
PS - Happy Passover :)
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Mr. Miller i was wondering if we should double space our poems???
on the previous post... could u email me at lgfloss4u@msn.com and let me know, i will not have computer acces for a week, this is my mom's email she can check it and let me know
Thanks
Hey Mr.Miller!! I hope your having a great break! For my found poem, can I put lyrics from songs together and cite the lyrics? or should I use poems?
Katie - Feel free to use song lyrics. Just don't forget to cite them in the way I explained in class.
A few questions...
How should I cite lines?
Did progress reports come Wednesday/Thursday?
Are the analysis log and poetry project the only things due Monday?
What did we do Wednesday?
Thanks.
Could you write the way you cite the lyrics and different poems and things again?
and also for the way that we put together the book do we HAVE to make it or can we put it in a binder?
Hey Mr. Miller for the limerick poems how many syllables are in a couplet and a triplet? E-mail me at sjhallen@earthlink.net. Thanks
Wow - All these comments already.
Ivan - To cite the lines for your found poem do the following: At the bottom of the page make a list and say Line 1 - "Title of Poem" by: Author.
The only things due are the analysis log and the poetry projects.
On Wednesday we looked at Hip Hop as poetry. You'll need to get handouts from me and notes from a classmate.
Anita - Look at the above note for how to cite lines. As far as putting it together - a binder is fine.
I forgot to ask earlier
I looked up the syllables for a limerick, and it said 99669, 88558, and 88668. I did 88558, is that OK?
That's fine. The syllable counts for limericks are within a range. 8-10 for the triplet and 5-7 for the couplet.
Mr. Miller, for the last poem that we have to do (the one where we can do any other form of our choice), can i do another found poem.
Donovan - That's great you want to do another found poem. Just make sure you that you cite your lines.
Mr. Miller,
I have a couple questions about a couple of the poems. For the sound poem, do we take a subject and then just translate the subject into only onomatopoeas? For the found poem, how do you cite it? Like i think i want to use song lyrics, but i don't know how to cite them. Thanks :)
Catie - For the citation of the lines for the found poem, look at the comment I gave to Ivan. That'll tell you how you need to cite for this. For the sound poem, think about writing a poem about a really noisy place or time - you'll want to include all of those onomatopoeia when writing the poem. There needs to be a bit more (I think) than just a random arrangement of sound words.
Does that clarify?
Yeah kinda. For like the sound poem, would it be like okay if I did the subject of like a kid washing a dog.. Then, take the words and describe the story in the use of onomatopoeia? Does that make sense?
And another thing, i would like to do a cinquian for my choice poem. Can you tell me about the structure so that i can do it right?
Catie - Your idea for a sound poem sounds great. Go with it! As for the cinquain, check out www.types-of-poetry.org.uk -- you can find the info there.
Thank you so much! But I could not find anything that gives more detail on the sound poem. Is it supposed to rhyme in any way? Certain number of syllables? Certain number of words per line? Sorry so many questions.
Nothing that specific with the sound poem - just have fun with it :)
Hey Mr Miller, my limericks are sad and i was wondering if they have to be happy or not.
They don't have to be happy. I'm kinda interested in reading some sad limericks.
Hello Mr. Miller I hope spring-break is going well for you, but i have a question about the poem we have to site(dont know if that is correct spelling). Does the poem have to flow completely because everything im putting together always has a problem....
Anthony - Part of the thing with writing a found poem is to create new ideas. I'm not looking for a solid rhyme scheme and rhythm - in fact, sometimes when a poem is really jumpy it can work.
Put the lines in the best arrangement you think possible.
Mr. Miller,
Do the haikus NEED to be about nature?
Nope. Have fun with them.
hiii okay so what are we suppose to do for the couplet? do we just have like every two lines rhyme like AABBCCDDEEFFGG etc?
also i was looking aT THat poetry website you gave us and i thought it said that for the limerick its triple: 7-10 and then couplet 5-7 for the syllables, does it have to be 8? cause i did 8,7,5,6,7..should i change it?
i had the same question melissa had about the couplet poem, and also, i don't completely understand what a catalogue poem is & it was not on the website you gave us
For the couplet poem you are just making couplets - meaning that the rhyme scheme needs to be AA, BB, CC, DD, EE, etc. As for the catalogue poem, you are giving information about all of the parts of a bigger idea or concept.
I don't know if you're also checking your email otherwise, so I'm telling you that I'm sending you my reflection for you to look at.
Hey again, how long do you want the catalogue poem to be?
No specific length if it's not stated on the assignment sheet. Just make sure that you've addressed all parts of your topic.
Hey Mr. Miller, it's Connor. For the couplet poem, are we doing a series of couplets or just one? Sorry, I'm confused because I don't have my sheet and I'm going off of what a friend sent me.
Connor - You're doing a series of couplets - at least five to give you a ten line poem.
Mr. Miller, okay I know that it's at the end of the week but I need to make sure I typed my poems right. I know that the reflection has to be double spaced but do all the poems have to be as well? Thanks
Mr. Miller,
I know there is extra credit if you read up to chapter 25 in great expectations. However, what reading is mandatory to have finished the day we get back? Thanks,
Emily
Catie - single space your poems and double space the reflection.
ETM - Read as much as you can. I'm going to give you a week to play catch-up but when we start the actual study of the novel we will move pretty quickly. You should try to be at least to chapter 20.
Okay thanks,
and also, just looking at your comment to catie.. i double spaced my poems also, along with my reflection..and i've already mounted them and everything. do i have to re-do them? :\
You don't have to redo them.
When you say we can break the rules for one of our poems, does that mean I could have 6 syllables in one of my haiku lines?
I can change the words easily, but I've already done my drawing for the page, so I would have to do it in pen. Is it OK for my to cross something out and write something in pen, if it isn't OK for me to have 6 syllables in one of the lines?
Ivan - When I said break the rules I meant grammar rules. However, you can go ahead and have six lines in one of your haikus.
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