DUE ON THURSDAY POETRY ASSIGNMENT 1

 FIRST, PRINT AND BRING THE FINAL PROJECT ASSIGNMENT TO CLASS ON THURSDAY!!!!!!!!!!!! I PUBLISHED IT AS A PAGE AND WILL GO OVER IT FIRST THING IN CLASS ON THURSDAY!


********NOTE - I HAVE POSTED MY POWER POINT FROM TODAY ON THIS BLOG- PLEASE REVIEW ALL OF THE TERMS- YOU WILL NEED TO KNOW " Sound Devices & Tone/Mood"

Here it is again: YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT AND PRINT IT. I HIGHLY SUGGEST YOU DO THAT

http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/jbrady8116-1099524-power-point-poetry-lesson-plan-102/




Part I - Listen to "The Introduction" &"The Power of Poetry"
 http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/listen-to-poetry

Part II -Read ALL of the poems on pgs.469-474 

Romantic Love: An Album
If you have a different edition of the text it should be in the poetry section and titled " Romantic Love an album"  

Poems include: 
The River Merchants Wife
 Stop All the Clocks, Cut off the Telephone
To My Dear and Loving Husband,
Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds by Shakespeare
 Women have loved before as I do now

In Your Notebook: Choose one poem in this album that evoked the strongest emotion in you. Construct a 2 paragraph response explaining what details in the poem contributed to your emotion. You can reference anything that you learned today in my introduction to Poetry. Think about Tone (see definition of Tone in the text p.475) and theme.   Be sure to use concrete examples and quotes in your response.  We will share in a Fishbowl on Thursday!   Note: Parenthetical Citation for poems (Auden 5-8).  Author and lines

Watch the Video "Stop All The Clocks" by Auden 
this poem is in the album and in the movie "Three Weddings & A Funeral" 

AND " listen to the audio 

"To My Dear and Loving Husband"  12:15 we did this already

Be sure to scroll down it is in the poetry out loud section! 

http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/listen-to-poetry

This is so exciting!!!!!

Auden and Bradstreet wrote because they were "members of the human race." Beauty, Romance Love... Those are the things we stay alive for. " "What will your verse be?"
MAKE SURE YOU WATCH THE "DEAD POETS CLIPS"!!!!!!!!!


See YOU Thursday! !