week of 3/19

3/12/13


Goal: Haiku March Madness!


First Prize: A $5.75 Gift Card!

Second Prize: A "Take 5" Bar

Third/Fourth Prize: One-of-a-kind Photos!

HW: Catch up on whatever you need to catch

up on. Don 't wait on Infinitie Campus. Go to 

http://sparespoetry2013.blogspot.com/ and 

scroll through to figure out what you're 

missing.


And now for the main event:

1. I had to tweak the bracket a little so that it 

worked. Get ready . Your need at least 3 original 

Haikus!

Rules: 

1. One-on-one rounds. Everyone else votes on 

Socrative. Winner advances. 

2. Haikus must be original work. No stealing ideas 

or poems. 

3. Poems must be actual Haikus: Three lines, 5-7-5 

syllable structure. 

4. Everyone must play at least once! 


After the 3rd round, Haikus must be invented on the 

spot. (In 1 minute or less. You may write them 

down.)



To vote: 

1. Go to m.socrative.com on a laptop or smart phone. 

2. If you Googled it, now click on "Socrative Student"

3. Go to Room # 833685

4. Wait for me to start you off!


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Quote: 

"Everything we are is given to us."

---from Michael Lee's Poem "Pass On"

First Step: A couple of invective poems to share? 

Then...

"Pass On" by Michael Lee

and

"Repetition" by Phil Kaye.


Question: Techniques of repetition is used in both "Repetition" and in "Pass On."

With the person next to you. Identify a specific technique that is repetitive. What is the effect of this technique on the listener? Why is repetition effective in either or both of these poems?

Discuss with a partner and be ready to share.

Repetition Exercise: Start with an "ing" word

e.g. "burning"

Then, add a word to it

e.g. "book burning"

Continue adding words until you have a poem like this:

burning
book burning
old book burning
revered old book burning
etc.




HW: Repetition Poem. Post on your blog for Tuesday. 

Write a poem of at least 

20 lines that uses repetition in some way, as 

Phil Kaye’s and Micheal Lee's poems do. You 

could repeat a sound, a word, a phrase, an idea, a 

rhyme, a refrain, or something else. You could 

make a list. 



Use the repetition artfully. Don't overdo it.


Start the poem in one of the following 

two ways:


Option 1: "I lost..."

Option 2: "I found..."