AP Literature and Composition Poetry Project

·        Choose a poets you find accessible and challenging. The one stipulation is that one of the poets be alive, someone who is current in literary publications, the other must be apart of the literary cannon. Remember, you will spend most of the term examining the work of this particular writer, so choose someone who will hold your interest. ·        Begin by reading the poets in Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense. You have a wonderful choice of poems to start with there. Take time to read books by at least five poets before you make your decision. I also have a list as well. ·     Create an index card for each poet you have investigated. ·        For the project you will complete a Poetry Blog discussing at least 20 poems (Ten from each poet) and following these directions:   o   Create your own Blog page for the poems.   o   You will have a posting for each poem.   o   With each poem, include your commentary. The length of your commentary should be 300 - 500 words for each poem. Use your Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense text as a resource.   o   Include a link on your post for a visual 01' auditory image that relates to your poem. Also include images that relate to your poem.   o   Your commentary should be informal, in a conversational style, and may include personal reaction or response to the poetry. However, you must include observations about stylistic elements that can be developed later in the formal, analytical paper you will write in the future. You want to address the following information:       A. The poet's name and the title        B. A general description of the themes you noticed,       C. The type of figurative language or imagery used (abstract or concrete/ subject matter),       D. The structure (regular or irregular rhyme and meter), and       tone      Submit your first Blog post by Friday January 31, 2014, at 4:00 pm. Each subsequent post should be up every other day. All students must visit at least three other blogs and comment.

You will have to show proof that you have responded to all of your classmates.   o       The second step of our project is to complete a poetry analysis. After you have received a grade and feedback on your post, write a formal analysis of one of the poems you have explicated on your Blog post. Examine the stylistic elements of the poem and explain how these elements convey a particular theme or tone. You will present one of these critical essays to our class. For the essay, you are to use either biographical information or literary criticism you have found on your poet from another source. Submit your papers to me on February 27, 2014. A Works Cited page will be required. Extra credit: Letter to your poet: o       Email your author or find a mailing address through one of the following sources: ·        Current Biography ·        Contemporary Authors ·        Call the 800 number for the publisher. Be assertive and patient as you negotiate your way through the corporate maze to find what you want ·        If your author works at a university or is affiliated with a college, call the academic department and ask someone how you can write to the author. Letters should be mailed or emailed before our last class, May 2. Turn in a copy of your letter or email to me so that I can read it before it is mailed.

 

Suggested contemporary poets

My former students have found their work with these poets particularly rewarding. The poet you choose must be living, and you should be able to find both biographical and critical material about him or her. c

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/country/America/contemporary/Americanpoets.html

Kim Addonizio	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	Carolyn Kizer
Sherman Alexie	Carolyn Forche	Maxine Kumin
Julia Alvarez	Dana Gioia	Stanley Kunitz
Margaret Atwood	Nikki Giovanni	Thomas Lux
Amiri Baraka	Albert Goldbarth	Paul McCartney
Marvin Bell	Jorie Graham	David Mason
Wendell Berry	R. S. Gwynn	Heather McHugh
Robert Bly	Rachel Hadas	W.S. Merwin
Eavan Boland	Robert Hass	Joni Mitchell
David Bottoms	Seamus Heaney	Paul Muldoon
E. K. Braithwaite	Anthony Hecht	Naomi Shihab Nye
Fred Chappell	Jane Hirschfield	Sharon Olds
Judith Ortiz Cofer	Andrew Hudgins	Mary Oliver
Leonard Cohen	Mark Jarman	Robert Pack
Billy Collins	Jay-Z	Linda Pastan
Annie Dillard	X. J. Kennedy	Marge Piercy
Diane diPrima	Carolyn Kizer	Robert Pinsky
Rita Dove	Yusef Komunyakaa	Adrienne Rich
Bob Dylan	Ted Kooser	Kay Ryan
Martin Espada	Galway Kinnell	Charles Simic

 

Poetry Project resources for contemporary poetry

Paul Simon	Timothy Steele	Anne Waldman
Stephen Sondheim	Mark Strand	Alice Walker
Dave Smith	James Tate	Richard Wilbur
Gary Snyder	Diane Thiel	C. D. Wright
Cathy Song	Natasha Trethewey	Kevin Young
Gary Soto	Quincy Troupe	Al Young
A. E. Stallings	Derek Walcott

 

Questions for Chapter 8 4-B

1.       What preoccupies Guitar’s dreams on a daily basis?

2.       What was Guitar able to predict based on the climate of the country’s culture?

3.       How does Guitar respond to Milkman’s proposal?

4.       What is the conflict the two men have in reference to getting the gold? What does this say about where each one is mentally?

5.       There was something Milkman wanted to know about Guitar. What is it?

6.       Read the section coming up very carefully and then discuss the symbolism of the white peacock.

7.       How do you think the following quote relates to the story’s theme? What can you predict will happen as a result of this analysis?

“Can’t nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”

8.       How does the bird set the men up? What would the two men do with their money?

9.       What plan do the two men put together?

10.   What was so ironic about the bag of “gold”?

11.   What does Milkman hear as they grab the gold? Where do we believe that noise is coming from?

12.   Who sees them and what does the person wonder?

Questions for Chapter 10 Continued... Due FRIDAY!!! 3-B

1.       Where were Milkman’s grandparents from?

2.       What was the one wish Milk had for Circe?

3.       Why did the lady of the house end her life, according to Circe’s understanding?

4.       Who is Jake?

5.       What is happening to Milk while he is literally searching the cave?

6.       What does Milkman find in the cave?

7.       How does Milkman end up leaving the plantation?

8.       Why is the man insulted by Milk offering money?

9.       What questions does Milkman have at the end of Chapter 10?

10.   Where does he go to find those answers?

Recruitment Fair at the GA Dome

RECRUITMENT FAIR

Representatives from 39 HBCUs will be on hand to speak with thousands of prospective students at the 2014 Honda Battle of the Bands Recruitment Fair. Attendees learn valuable information about HBCU admission requirements and about requirements for joining an HBCU marching band. HBCUs offer a variety of scholastic majors and opportunities in various fields, providing the ultimate academic and cultural college experience.

WHAT

HBCU Recruitment Fair

WHEN

Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

WHERE

Thomas Murphy Ballroom

Georgia World Congress Center

Questions for Chapter 10 3B

1.  Chapter 10 begins with the allusion of the folktale, Hansel and Gretel. What can we predict will happen based on this allusion?

2.  Where is Milkman at the start of this chapter?

3.  At what point does Morrison revert into flashback?

4.  Discuss the tension evident in the conversation between Milkman and Guitar. What makes the reader aware that this conversation is awkward?

5.   What is it that black women want from black men? What do while men and white women want?

6.  Why do the Seven Days protect black women?

7.  What excuse Guitar give for the way he views Macon Dead?

8.  What is Guitar’s interpretation of the way Pilate handled the situation at the jailhouse?

9.  Describe the “willingness to love” that Guitar’s mother had shown when her husband died?

10.                   Both men have their own reasons for needing the money? What were those reasons?

11.                   When Milkman arrives in Pittsburgh, where does he leave his luggage?

12.                   Who is Reverend Cooper? What does this man tell Milkman about his family history?

13.                   What has happened to Circe? How did things end up with the people that killed their father?

14.                   Describe Milkman’s grandmother’s appearance.

15.                   What does Macon Sr.’ s success say to the men around him?

16.                   Who is the woman staying in the house of the people that killed his grandfather? Describe Milkman’s first meeting with her.

17.                   Why is this meeting a bit of magical realism?

18.                   Who does this woman think Milkman is  when she meets him?

19.                   What was Milkman’s grandmother’s name?

20.                   How did Macon and Milk’s grandmother meet?

21.                   What happened in Hunter’s Cave, according to Circe?

22.                   STOP at 147

Song of Solomon Chapter 7 for 4B

1.  What is the main idea of the paragraph on page 163 (the first paragraph of Chapter 7)? How does this paragraph relate to Milkman’s desires?

2.  Why does Milkman feel used?

3.  What happened to Macon and his sister Pilate after their father was killed?

4.  How long was their stay with Circe? What was ironic about them staying with Circe?

5.  How does Pilate get her earring?

6.  What took place on the third day of the children’s freedom?

7.  What was the basis of the children’s argument?

8.  What does Macon, Jr. ask his so to do?