What Will Your Verse Be? January 22, 2019

Focus: What will your verse be? 

1. Warming up with three good things and the Grammar Focus #4 assessment

2. Perusing the overview of this mini-project with a little inspiration from "What Will Your Verse Be"?

3. Contemplating other Whitman's and Hughes' verses: "I Hear America Singing" and "I, Too" with the MMM approach

4. Composing your own response poem to "I, Too"

HW:
BY THIS FRIDAY, please watch the Harlem Renaissance documentary linked below. It will give you the background on the Harlem Renaissance that you need to succeed this week. You can start the documentary 15 minutes into it. 

*WARNING: If you choose to watch the first 15 minutes (not required), there are upsetting photographs of lynchings between minutes 5 and 7.*

So you could watch about 15 minutes a night, or you could watch it all in one gloriously informative off hour.  Do what works for you and your schedule.

Documentary link: Making a Way Out of No Way

On Friday, you will be asked to take about 15 minutes to fill out a reflection sheet on the documentary. It will be divided into Level 1, 2, and 3 thinking. As long as you watched the documentary, you will be just fine. No need to memorize anything.