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Train – Hey, Soul Sister
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVpv8-5XWOI
Hey, hey, heyYour lipstick stains on the front load of my left side brainsI knew I wouldn't forget you, and so I went and let you blow my mindYour sweet moon beam, the smell of you in every single dream I dreamI knew when we collided, you're the one I have decided who's one of my kind
Hey soul sister, ain't that Mr. Mister on the radio, stereo, the way you move ain't fair, you know!Hey soul sister, I don't want to miss a single thing you do...tonight
Hey, hey, heyJust in time, I'm so glad you have a one-track mind like meYou gave my life direction, a game show love connection we can't denyI'm so obsessed, my heart is bound to beat right out my untrimmed chestI believe in you, like a virgin, you're Madonna, and I'm always gonna wanna blow your mind
Hey soul sister, ain't that Mr. Mister on the radio, stereo, the way you move ain't fair, you know!Hey soul sister, I don't want to miss a single thing you do...tonight
The way you can cut a rug, watching you's the only drug I needYou're so gangsta, I'm so thug, you're the only one I'm dreaming ofYou see, I can be myself now finally, in fact there's nothing I can't beI want the world to see you be with me
Hey soul sister, ain't that Mr. Mister on the radio, stereo, the way you move ain't fair, you know!Hey soul sister, I don't want to miss a single thing you do tonight,Hey soul sister, I don't want to miss a single thing you do...tonightHey, hey,hey – Tonight / Hey, hey,hey - Tonight
POETIC PROMISE: Practical Poetry in the
English Classroom
Jason KurtzDell Rapids Public High SchoolJason.Kurtz@k12.sd.us
Pop Music Poets Poetic Images
Poetography Flickr Poetry Slidecasts
Creating Units/Modules Video/Music/Prose/POEMS
Fulfilling the Poetic Promise
WHERE HAS POETRY GONE? In April 2003 in the “My Turn” section of Newsweek, Bruce Wexler claimed
that no one reads poetry anymore. I contend that it permeates our society in a different way, through music. Our students are listening to "poetry" every day. By bringing a medium that students are familiar with (pop music & video) into the classroom, greater leaps in learning take place.
The obvious potential lies in that pop music songs and lyrics can be used as a springboard to literary interpretation. By analyzing the words in a song, as well as understanding the process and clues through which we develop our analysis, students will be able to have greater confidence in supporting their own interpretations of literature, and specifically poetry. Associating the music or lyric with the term or concept that is being taught, also provides a mnemonic device that the student may use during recall.
Many students seem frustrated and hesitant with poetry interpretation because oftentimes, their own suggestions may differ from classroom text's interpretation. However, students usually have no qualms when asked to offer interpretations of popular musical lyrics. In fact, they seem quite eager to defend a lyrical explanation and will readily point out (without even realizing it) symbols, images, and allusions as ammunition to prove their points.
POP MUSIC POETS
How do you know you are in the presence of a poem?
By identifying the conventions of poetry
A simple way to help students identify these elements and conventions is to identify them in pop music lyrics.
Britney Spears - Circus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVhJ_A8XUgc
There's only two types of people in the worldThe ones that entertain and the ones that
observeWell baby, I'm a put-on-a-show kind of girlDon't like the backseat, gotta be first
I'm a like the ringleader, I call the shots(Call the shots)I'm like a firecracker I make it hotWhen I put on a show
I feel the adrenaline moving through my veinsSpotlight on me and I'm ready to breakI'm like a performer, the dance floor is my
stageBetter be ready, hope that you feel the same
[Chorus]All eyes on me in the center of the ring just like
a circusWhen I crack that whip, everybody gon' trip
just like a circusDon't stand there watching me, follow me,
show me what you can doEverybody let go, we can make a dance floor
just like a circus
There's only two types of guys out thereOnes that can hang with me and ones that are
scaredSo baby, I hope that you came preparedI run a tight ship so beware
I'm a like the ringleader, I call the shots(Call the shots)I'm like a firecracker, I make it hotWhen I put on a show
I feel the adrenaline moving through my veinsSpotlight on me and I'm ready to breakI'm like a performer, the dance floor is my
stageBetter be ready, hope that you feel the same
[Chorus]
Let's goLet me see what you can doI'm runnin' this like-like-like a circusYeah, like a what? Like-like-like a circus
[Chorus repeat x2]
A simile is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things, often introduced with the word "like" or "as". Circus – Performed by Brittany Spears – Written by Lukasz Gottwald, Claude Kelly, Benjamin Levin
Simile
Sting – Shape of My Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=037uSAIahho
FLICKR POETRY
TWISTING POETOGRAPHY:Slidecasts
http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/tag/poetry/
“METAPHORS”Sylvia Plath
Visual metaphors and a connection to Rosenblatt’s theories of reader response.
Poetic Images:
I’m a riddle in nine syllables,An elephant, a ponderous house,A melon strolling on two tendrils.O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!This loaf’s big with its yeasty rising.Money’s new minted in this fat purse.I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf.I’ve eaten a bag of green apples, Boarded the train there’s no getting off.
I am a riddle in nine syllables
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils
O red fruit, ivory fine timbers!
POETIC MODULES: VIDEO/LYRIC/IMAGE/POEM
Sting – Moon Over Bourbon Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i_0PkOqLKA
POETRY MODULES: POEM – ROBERT FROST
Acquainted with the Night - Robert Frost
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street,
But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly height, A luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.
POETIC MODULES: PROSE RAY BRADBURY
POETRY JIGSAW Cooperative learning technique that values the group
and the individual Divide students into jigsaw groups (4-5) that are
diverse in terms of gender, ethnicity, race, and ability. Appoint one student from each group to be the leader. Divide the lesson in to 4-5 segments (Emily Dickinson
poems). Assign each student to study one segment (one
Dickinson poem), making certain that students have direct access only to their own segment.
Form temporary “expert groups” by having one student from the jigsaw group join others assigned to the same segment.
POETRY JIGSAW: AUTHOR APPROACH Expert Group
Collectively discusses the main points of their segment and discuss elements to share with their original jigsaw groups.
Jigsaw Group The initial group of
students. Upon their return to
the jigsaw group, the individuals who are now experts in one segment (one Dickinson poem) present their content to the group.
http://www.jigsaw.org/steps.htm
POETRY: GENRE AND AESTHETICS Poetic Schools and Movements
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/193
180. When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer – Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass, 1900
WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick,Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
POETRY CIRCLESPeer-Oriented Learning
Form EvaluatorStructure, rhythm, rhyme
Theme ExaminerUniversal ideas, interpretations
Image CultivatorVisual elements, symbols, figurative language
Background FilterContext: period and poet
http://www.studyguide.org/poetry_circles.htm
POETRY GENERATING LOOPS Creating a contemporary American poem
using conventionsImage Weaver
Provide concrete images for the poem (at least 2)Language Keeper
Supply words and provide word play (5 “exotic”)Metaphor Generator
Supply fresh metaphors or similes (at least 2)Music Maker
Create a sense of music (rhyme, assonance, alliteration, consonance) (try to take language keeper’s words and generate words
that sound musical alongside them—eclectic + electric)
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/poetry-circles-generative-writing-1074.html
POETIC PROMISE: Practical Poetry in the
English Classroom
Jason KurtzDell Rapids Public High SchoolJason.Kurtz@k12.sd.us