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| Interview |
| Talk to 6 kids and 4 adults about two songs that mean something to you. Ask questions that will get at their feelings about the songs-- get them to use higher-order thinking. Do this interview in the form of a checklist so that we can convert the data into a graph using Excel or Microsoft Graph. Click here for lyrics, okay? |
| Reading |
| Over the next two weeks, your reading homework will be to complete the reactions to the books you have been reading in class on Wednesdays. You must submit two typed pages of reaction to your novel, and one typed page of reaction to the book we are reading together: Won't Know Till I Get There by Walter Dean Myers. |
| Writing |
| You have a choice. To wrap up our writing this nine weeks, you can submit either 500 words excerpted (cut out) of your journal, or you can write two essays. The excerpts from the journal must make sense and follow a theme. If you choose to write the essays, the topics are as follows: Persuasive: Revise the essay about why we need poetry in our lives. Expository: Write an essay comparing one of the songs you have chosen to a poem discussed in class. |
| EXAM |
| As a culminating activity, we will create analog and digital poetry indexes. You will get in a triad and each member will submit two poems and two songs. The poems and songs must form meaningful pairs, and you must write a paragraph explaining the connection. For instance, if you choose a love song, you could pick a poem by ee cummings or William Shakespeare or Marge Piercy to accompany the song. The projects will be put into web pages or MS Excel, and you will hyperlink a table of contents so that the reader can easily search the multimedia project. |
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