NEW UNIT - POETRY
Our focus activity to reintroduce poetry will be an evaluative activity using poetry typography (see links below). The aim of this activity is to acknowledge the power of poetry to concisely and effectively explore ideas.
View each of the videos and read the poems on the handout provided. In your book note down the subject matter and theme of each poem. Choose the poem that you feel was most powerful in exploring a theme and also choose a video that you feel best represented the poem visually. Post a response using the 'comments' link below explaining both of your choices.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjXHRUlKe_M (You Want a Social Life, With Friends' - Kenneth Koche)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-CXa7RePu4 ('No Cure' - Derek del Barrio)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyNxBIDZoV8 ('For Your Tomorrow' - Major John Etty-Leal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f9IAqWcF_0 ('Puppy Mill' - Peggy Wilson)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utcb7JTrX-M ('The Clock of Life' - Robert H. Smith)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tTeZNfwesg ('If' - Rudyard Kipling)
