Ms. Nakada's Virtual Classroom: Day 22

Agenda:

Check-in

Poetry Collections and Poetry Slam Videos

"Toy Boat" by Ocean Vuong

Prompts for NaPoWriMo Day #22

HW: RJ 14.3 on a poem. 

Read a poem and write a poem. 

Happy Wednesday. Somehow, the weeks are flying by. We're already almost done with our four week of distance learning. Crazy. 

Zooms are at 9 and 10 today. See you there. 

Check-in Question for today: What do you wish teachers knew or would do differently in the transition to online learning? 

Before we look at our prompts, let's talk a little about our poetry collections and the poetry slam. 

For your collections: put together a collection of your best 10-15 poems due May 6th. (50 points)

Include an introduction and table of contents. 

Number your pages. 

Revise your poems to make them as strong as possible. 

For our poetry slam: 

Submit a video of you performing a poem by May 8th. (30 points)

You can do someone else's poem with a response or your own original poem. 

They should not be longer than 3 minutes. 

You can work by yourself or in a small group. 

Here is a sample video of poets performing youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman's poem. 

Our poem today is by Ocean Vuong. 

• Read through the poem 3-4 times (preferably out loud). 
• What feeling/tone do you get from the poem? 
• What is it about? 
• What poetic elements do you notice happening in this poem? 
• Annotate and make sense of this poem.

Prompt: Write a poem about inspired by a historical or political event. 

From Winter Tangerine: "Imagine your body as a planet. What do you orbit?"

From Writer's Digest: 

"For today’s prompt:

Write a love poem and/or…

Write an anti-love poem. Because some folks just aren’t that into love poems.

Remember: These prompts are just springboards; you have the freedom to jump in any direction you want. In other words, it’s more important to write a new poem than to stick to the prompt."