AP Language and Composition Poetry Presentations 2008 |
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General Requirements *You must teach one poem. *No poem can be selected by more than one student. *The poem that you select must be on the list of poems on this page. *You will assume the role of the teacher and teach your poem to the class. Therefore, do not focus too much on biographical information. Instead, focus on the poem. *Rule of thumb: Your classmates should be able to discuss and to write on your poem after you present it. *Report on how the external structure of the poem (the way it conforms to certain predetermined guidelines) influences its meaning. *Identify rhyme scheme; we all need practice. *Relate your poem to literary movements and time periods. *Relate your poems to other poems that we have studied in this class (if possible). *Do not tie yourself to your secondary sources. You're supposed to be working through your research and synthesizing that information to develop your own interpretation. *You will also create a web page to accompany your presentation, and the web page must include: -Biographical information about the poet. -The poem that you are presenting -An outline of the major points of the student presentation (a hard copy must also be presented; it can be e-mailed to me and to the members of the class if you'd like to save paper). -Exhaustive Identification of the literary terms that appear in the poem and citations of the line numbers on which they appear in MLA format. This means that your line references consist only of arabic numerals, not the word line or lines: (1, 7, 6-10). -The URLs for at least three web sites that were useful to you when you created your presentation. The information they present should be collegiate and intellectual in nature. -A Works Cited page in MLA format (a hard copy must also be presented. These cannot be e-mailed to me.) **The Works Cited page should include at least three web sites and three sources that are not found on the internet. Each source should be no fewer than three pages in length and be dated no later than 1985, must be college level material, must pertain to the poems that you are presenting, and should be used by you! *Select two critical approaches and explain how you would interpret your poem from those perspectives. Your interpretations must be authentic. *Two interactive activities not used in the presentation on the web page. Analysis is a required element of these activities. |
Helpful Hints *Start with something simple and concrete like rhyme scheme, type of poem (villanelle, sonnet, ode, etc.), feet and meter, etc. It will calm you down. *Stating the overall theme of the poem early in your lesson can help to focus analysis. *Don't rush through the poem. As you practice your presentation, make sure that you can be understood. *Don't forget to discuss the title of the poem. *Address tone, audience and purpose! *Don't focus on the life of the poet unless it is absolutely essential to interpreting the poem. *Don't be afraid of questions. You want your students to be involved. *Don't plant questions. *Don't let student discussions stray too far off topic or go on for too long. You have material to cover and a specific length of time in which to cover it. *We're all friends here and we're all in this together. You're not being judged, and no one is going to try to sabotage you (if anyone does so, then that person will answer to me). Relax and guide your students through the poem. Better yet, let them walk themselves through the poem while you guide them. *Teach to the entire class, not to a single student or to just a few students. Look at everyone, engage everyone, and include everyone. |
Poems for Teaching "Spring and All" by William Carlos Williams "The Heaven of Animals" by James Dickey "Holy Sonnet XIV" by John Donne "Lemuel's Blessing" by W. S. Merwin "The Bee Meeting" by Sylvia Plath Katie Kalivoda "Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath "The Desert Music" by William Carlos Williams Esther Deaton "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats "Tears, Idle Tears" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Canonization" by John Donne "Dark Night of the Soul" by Robert Penn Warren "Ode on Solitude" by Alexander Pope "The Soul Selects Her Own Society" by Emily Dickinson "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" by Wallace Stevens "Anecdote of the Jar" by Wallace Stevens "The Red Wheelbarrow" plus one other poem by William Carlos Williams (You will need to present two poems since "Wheelbarrow" is very brief) "Jazzonia" by Langston Hughes "The Visitant" by Theodore Roethke "Corner" by Ralph Pomeroy "Kudzu" by James Dickey "Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers" by Emily Dickinson "If I Should Learn in Some Quick Casual Way" by Edna St. Vincent Millay “Ars Poetica” by Archibald MacLeish “Aubade” by Philip Larkin “Parting, Without a Sequel” by John Crowe Ransom “Out, Out—" by Robert Frost “Ex-Basketball Player” by John Updike “Channel Firing” by Thomas Hardy “A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body” by Andrew Marvell Maggie Kellett “I Do, I Will, I Have” by Ogden Nash “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall “A Poem for Emily” by Miller Williams "God's Grandeur" by Gerard Manley Hopkins "All Day I Hear" by James Joyce “There Was a Child Went Forth” by Walt Whitman “The Garden of Love” by William Blake "Death, Be Not Proud" by John Donne Michael Lai "Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen "Indian Boy Love Song #1" by Sherman Alexie "Indian Boy Love Song #2" by Sherman Alexie “On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High” by D. C. Berry "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop "The Changeling" by Judith Ortiz Cofer "in Just-" by e. e. cummings "Cherrylog Road" by James Dickey "The Leap" by James Dickey “One Dignity Delays for All” by Emily Dickinson “The Flea” by John Donne “The Aim Was Song” by Robert Frost "Birches" by Robert Frost “Pathedy of Manners” by Ellen Kay "When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be" by John Keats Christine Shaw "To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell "The Fish" by Marianne Moore "Grace To Be Said at the Supermarket" by Howard Nemerov "The Dead Woman" by Pablo Neruda "Rites of Passage" by Sharon Olds Lisa Sheppard "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver "The Flapper" by Dorothy Parker "To a Daughter Leaving Home" by Linda Pastan "Unlearning to Not Speak" by Marge Piercy "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath Kena Vyas "To the Mercy Killers" by Dudley Randall "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke from Othello by William Shakespeare (III.iii.255-74) from Othello by William Shakespeare (V.ii.1-22) Elizabeth Newcomer from Richard III by William Shakespeare (I.i.1-40) from Richard III by William Shakespeare (I.ii.227-63) "The Death of a Soldier" by Wallace Stevens "Come up from the Fields Father" by Walt Whitman "The Writer" by Richard Wilbur "The Wild Swans at Coole" by W. B. Yeats 2008 Projects “Miniver Cheevy” by Edwin Arlington Robinson Anna “Curiosity” by Alistair Reid Maddie “ Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold Della “Wind” by Ted Hughes Margaret “The Waking” by Theodore Roethke Emily “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth Alec "Remembrance" by Emily Bronte Sloane “Vergissmeinnicht” by Keith Douglas Eric 2007 Projects "Southern Cop" by Sterling A. Brown Anand Agrawal "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant Jarrard Cole "Postcard from a Foreign Country's Stage" by Judith Ortiz Cofer Meg Winthrop “The Story We Know” by Martha Collins Elizabeth Trandel "anyone lived in a pretty how town" by "Design" by Robert Frost Sarah Weinstein "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath Ruby Lai "Sorting Laundry" by Elisavietta Ritchie Rona Chen "When My Love Swears That She is Made of Truth" by William Shakespeare Manisha Reddy "The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles" by 2005 and 2006 Projects “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” by John Keats Dorothy “Love Poem” by John Frederick Nims “The Harbor” by Carl Sandburg “If Everything Happens That Can’t Be Done” by e. e. cummings "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden "To Autumn" by John Keats "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning |
Discusssion Forum and Presentation Schedule Go to http://www.athensacademy.net/forums DO NOT FORGET: October 3rd: Lisa Sheppard, Esther Deaton October 7th: Katie Kalivoda, Kena Vyas October 8th: Christine Shaw, Elizabeth Newcomer *Post your web project to the "Student Web" folder on the Instruction drive by 11:00am on the day after your presentation. _________________
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