Reading the Poet:
You will meet with your team several times over the course of the rest of the quarter. You will have several meetings focused on reading and understanding your poet and the poet's works and several meetings on preparing the final litweb and presentation. One member of the team will act as leader for each of these meetings. Each meeting should have a different leader. As a leader you will prepare ten questions to discuss about the aspect that you have designated for that week and keep the discussion going. At the first meeting of your team, you will divide tasks into four sections and decide how much is to be accomplished by each meeting. Keep a log of all the work you do on this project and what you as an individual contribute to the group each time.
Poets for Discussion:
You and your teammate will choose one of the poets listed below. If you have a poet that you would like to investigate who's not on this list let me know, and I will see if there is enough information about the poet to allow you to be successful with this task.
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Emily Dickinson | |
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Walt Whitman | |
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T. S. Eliot | |
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Sylvia Plath | |
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W. C. Williams | |
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Adrienne Rich | |
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Robert Frost | |
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Gwendolyn Brooks | |
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Langston Hughes | |
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Sharon Olds | |
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e.e. cummings | |
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W. B. Yeats | |
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James Wright |
You will have four team group meetings focused on understanding your poet: (this is a possible plan for a team)
Meeting One, 10/30 -- Historical context -- Library
Meeting Two, 11/3 -- Depth and breadth of work -- Library
Meeting Three, 11/10 -- Critiques -- Library
Meeting Four, 11/17 -- Wrapping it up -- Library
Presentations, 12/2-4-- In-class
Planning for your Litweb for your Final Presentation to the Class
You will work in your teams to develop the details of your final plan for your litweb and your presentation to the class. Your goal is to make the class want to read more about your poet by giving an understanding of the major works, writer's background and style, theme of work and your critique as well as those of the critics. In addition you will be asked to connect the poet to other works we have read this quarter and to the ideas you have individually researched for the first research essay. Use the poet in as many ways as you can in your presentation. To help the class better understand your poet, you are to choose one significant poem that you feel will give the class a good idea of the content, theme and writing style. Remember you want to encourage them to read the poet.
See timelines to help with planning for this complex task. Click here to read more about the research aspects.