Monday 9/12

Today we looked closely at "I Wanna Hear a Poem" by Steve Coleman and realized that while slam poetry is free verse by nature, it still employs poetic devices and we looked at some of these.  Thanks to Emily and Cody for sharing their poetry and to Rachel for enthusiastically reading Coleman's poem in class! While Cody and Emily did try their hands at poetry, many of you did not follow the very explicit directions from yesterday please reread these directions and be sure the comments are indeed in your writer's notebooks as they will receive a grade. Your HW for tonight is to generate 2 pages of writing in your Writer's notebook. The writing should begin with an inventory of things about which you feel passionate.