Forum Debrief, Portfolio, and V
Forum debrief:
Thank you for participating in the problem based learning event. Soon, I will be giving you a questionnaire about the entire process. But for today, please respond to our last required forum post in Mr. Craddock's Class .
When you have completed your response, please work on your portfolio. Some more ideas (see previous post for other ideas):
--Write a non-fiction essay based on something that happened or something someone said yesterday (either the MCC forum or the coffee house, for example)
--Work with a partner to write either a poem or short story. Take turns writing a stanza (poem) or paragraph (story). If you'd like try writing a short chapter or poem each, then allow your partner to carry on with the theme, characters, or narrative in a poem cycle or longer short story broken by section or chapters. You may also collaborate on a script in this way, with each writer writing a scene.
--Find a newspaper or journalism article from a website or magazine. Select words or phrases from the article to shape it into a found poem.
--Write a comic strip or comic monologue about pet peeves.
--Interview someone in the class (or from another class) and use the answers to your interview in a short story, poem, scene, or film it as a documentary, perhaps entitled: "A moment in the life of ..."
--With a partner, write a renga. See details.
Renga, means "linked poem." Unlike haiku or tanka, Renga allows poets to work together in pairs or small groups, taking turns composing alternating three-line and two-line stanzas. Linked together, renga are often hundreds of lines long, though the favored length is a 36-line form called a kasen.
To create a renga, one poet writes the first stanza, which is three lines long with a total of seventeen syllables (haiku). The next poet adds the second stanza, a couplet with seven syllables per line. The third stanza repeats the structure of the first (another haiku) and the fourth repeats the second, alternating in this pattern until the poem’s end.
Renga often uses nature as its theme. Diction is often pastoral (having to do with nature), incorporating words and images associated with seasons and sometimes love. In order for the poem to achieve its trajectory, each poet writes a new stanza that leaps from only the stanza preceding it. This leap advances both the thematic movement as well as maintaining the linking component.
Contemporary poets have relaxed the form’s traditional structural standards, allowing poets to adjust line-length.
Some autumn/winter kigo to help you out:
winter: Freezing rain or freezing drizzle, Sleigh rides; Snowfall, Blizzard; Snow or ice sculptures (snowmen, etc); Football Playoffs: "The Super Bowl"; Ice fishing; Ice hockey; Ice skating; Polar plunges; Sledding; Tobaggoning; Snowboarding; Skiing; Snow shoeing; Snow shoveling; Candles, firewood, fireplaces, etc.; Christmas Eve, Christmas Day; Earth Day; Epiphany (Episcopal, Catholic); Groundhog Day; Hanukkah; Martin Luther King Jr., Day; Lincoln's Birthday (12th February); President's Day; Pearl Harbor Day; St. Valentine's Day; Washington's Birthday (22nd February)
Midterms; Blue jays; Cardinals; Chickadees; Juncos; Mockingbirds, northern
Owls; Sparrows; Crows (Rochester); Titmouse, tufted; Woodpeckers; Poinsettia; Norway pines
autumn: Lingering summer, short day, wild geese, crows, woodpecker, red dragonfly, raking/burning leaves, rose of sharon, BBQ, pomegranate, pumpkin, fallen leaves, shrike (bird), black cat, mushroom gathering, gleaning, harvest, corn field, deer, Labor Day, Halloween
HOMEWORK: Please complete your reading of V for Vendetta. Please note characters, plot points, setting, themes, tone, and political or social message. Take notes on these things, you will be tested on the graphic novel's elements.
Thank you for participating in the problem based learning event. Soon, I will be giving you a questionnaire about the entire process. But for today, please respond to our last required forum post in Mr. Craddock's Class .
When you have completed your response, please work on your portfolio. Some more ideas (see previous post for other ideas):
--Write a non-fiction essay based on something that happened or something someone said yesterday (either the MCC forum or the coffee house, for example)
--Work with a partner to write either a poem or short story. Take turns writing a stanza (poem) or paragraph (story). If you'd like try writing a short chapter or poem each, then allow your partner to carry on with the theme, characters, or narrative in a poem cycle or longer short story broken by section or chapters. You may also collaborate on a script in this way, with each writer writing a scene.
--Find a newspaper or journalism article from a website or magazine. Select words or phrases from the article to shape it into a found poem.
--Write a comic strip or comic monologue about pet peeves.
--Interview someone in the class (or from another class) and use the answers to your interview in a short story, poem, scene, or film it as a documentary, perhaps entitled: "A moment in the life of ..."
--With a partner, write a renga. See details.
Renga, means "linked poem." Unlike haiku or tanka, Renga allows poets to work together in pairs or small groups, taking turns composing alternating three-line and two-line stanzas. Linked together, renga are often hundreds of lines long, though the favored length is a 36-line form called a kasen.
To create a renga, one poet writes the first stanza, which is three lines long with a total of seventeen syllables (haiku). The next poet adds the second stanza, a couplet with seven syllables per line. The third stanza repeats the structure of the first (another haiku) and the fourth repeats the second, alternating in this pattern until the poem’s end.
Renga often uses nature as its theme. Diction is often pastoral (having to do with nature), incorporating words and images associated with seasons and sometimes love. In order for the poem to achieve its trajectory, each poet writes a new stanza that leaps from only the stanza preceding it. This leap advances both the thematic movement as well as maintaining the linking component.
Contemporary poets have relaxed the form’s traditional structural standards, allowing poets to adjust line-length.
Some autumn/winter kigo to help you out:
winter: Freezing rain or freezing drizzle, Sleigh rides; Snowfall, Blizzard; Snow or ice sculptures (snowmen, etc); Football Playoffs: "The Super Bowl"; Ice fishing; Ice hockey; Ice skating; Polar plunges; Sledding; Tobaggoning; Snowboarding; Skiing; Snow shoeing; Snow shoveling; Candles, firewood, fireplaces, etc.; Christmas Eve, Christmas Day; Earth Day; Epiphany (Episcopal, Catholic); Groundhog Day; Hanukkah; Martin Luther King Jr., Day; Lincoln's Birthday (12th February); President's Day; Pearl Harbor Day; St. Valentine's Day; Washington's Birthday (22nd February)
Midterms; Blue jays; Cardinals; Chickadees; Juncos; Mockingbirds, northern
Owls; Sparrows; Crows (Rochester); Titmouse, tufted; Woodpeckers; Poinsettia; Norway pines
autumn: Lingering summer, short day, wild geese, crows, woodpecker, red dragonfly, raking/burning leaves, rose of sharon, BBQ, pomegranate, pumpkin, fallen leaves, shrike (bird), black cat, mushroom gathering, gleaning, harvest, corn field, deer, Labor Day, Halloween
HOMEWORK: Please complete your reading of V for Vendetta. Please note characters, plot points, setting, themes, tone, and political or social message. Take notes on these things, you will be tested on the graphic novel's elements.
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