Homework:

1. Look up and print the poems "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll and "The One Beside the Door" by Peter Benoit.

2. Analyze the poem by using the 3 steps we learned in class.

3. Find a ballad (but not a song), a villanelle, or a sonnet which you will use for your YouTube video. I will ask for titles next class.

 

Instructions for YouTube Video:

a) Select a ballad, villanelle or a sonnet (your ballad cannot be a song because we already did songs in our previous presentation).

b) Create a YouTube video of yourself as you recite the poem. Make the video as creative as you can with music, art, drama etc. (You may use other classmates as extras in your video, although you must be the one reciting the poem as the assignment will be graded individually; therefore, each one of you must make your own video.)

c) Videos will not be performed in front of the class. You will provide me with the link of the video on the respective due date (see below) and I will grade your video as I watch it online. Make sure you follow the rubric as you work on the activity, which is also available on the blog.

d) On your first class back after the break you will provide me with the title of the poem you have chosen.

 

Important dates for grade nines:

-Friday, March 25, 2011 or Monday, March 28, 2011 (depending when you have class) Poem analysis test You will have 75 minutes (the whole period) to analyse a specific poem using the steps we learned in class.

 

-Wednesday, March 30, 2011 or Thursday, March 31, 2011 (depending when you have class) YouTube Video due You will provide me with the link of your video during class.