Thursday, April 28, 2016

Learning Objectives:

• Transform a prose selection into a "found poem"
• Present a dramatic interpretation.

Opening:

1. If you didn't finish, go out to the hall and finish presenting your "Panel Discussion" to another Lit. Circle Group. 

2. Finalize - Staple your Notecard to your Page of Notes.

3. Think on this...Anne Frank wrote a diary, as you know.  She named her diary "Kitty."  Why do you think she did that?

Work Period:
4. Get a computer to share with your seat partner.
Go to Activity 3.12.

• Create a Sticky Note with you and your partner's names on it.
• With a partner, read silently through the "letter" from Anne Frank to her diary, "Kitty".
• After reading, respond to the Key Ideas and Details question in the margins

5. What do you think is a "found poem"?

6. Practice with your partner reading the Found Poem aloud to each other.  

• Prepare/Rehearse a Choral Reading of the Poem with your partner.

7. When your pair is ready - read the poem to another pair using pacing, inflection, pitch, volume and enunciation.

8. Respond to Questions #4-6 online.

Closing:

Tomorrow and Monday you will meet exclusively with your Literature Circle to prepare for the Panel Discussion.

9. Label a Section in your Class Notebook
Panel Discussion Prep Work:

• Find a passage from your Holocaust novel and transform it into a Found Poem.
• Prepare a dramatic interpretation of your found poem - you'll read it to your group tomorrow.