Day+07+-+Discussion+&+Poetry

** Day Title: ** Discussion & Poetry ** Lesson Outcome:  ** Students will be able to: o Write a poem based on a prompt o Work together to arrange lyrics ** Standards:  ** CE 1.1.2 - Know and use a variety of prewriting strategies to generate, focus, and organize ideas. CE 1.1.4 - Compose drafts that convey an impression, express an opinion, raise a question, argue a position, explore a topic, tell a story, or serve another purpose, while simultaneously considering the constraints and possibilities of the selected form or genre. CE 1.2.3 – Write, speak, and create artistic representations to express personal experience and perspective. CE 1.3.1 - Compose written, spoken and/or multimedia compositions in a range of genres: pieces that serve a variety of purposes and that use a variety of organizational patterns. CE 1.5.1 - Use writing, speaking, and visual expression to develop powerful, creative and critical messages. CE 2.1.11 – Demonstrate appropriate social skills of audience, group discussion, or work team behavior by listening attentively and with civility to the ideas of others, gaining the floor in respectful ways, posing appropriate question, and tolerating ambiguity and lack of consensus. ** Materials Needed: ** cut up song lyrics, envelopes, desk space, large sheets of study paper ** Launch: **Mixed Up Lyrics  1. Put students into groups of three  2. Hand out envelopes with song lyrics  3. Students need to put the lyrics in an order that makes sense to them  4. Once they have them arranged how they like, they need to glue the lyric strips to a piece of paper  5. Play the song for the students ** Learning Activity:  ** Questions for students: · Which arrangement do you like better, yours or Ani's? Why? · Why did I have you glue your arrangement down?  § "So we couldn't change it" · In Hard Love "change" is linked to "escape" What are some examples from your reading of change?  § Top of page 104 ** Launch: ** What's in a Name? Play "The Slant" by Ani DiFranco Both Marisol and Diana Tree write about what their names mean. What does John's name mean to him. Why does he chose to use the alias "Giovanni"? ** Learning Activity: **What's in a Name? Students will write about what their name means and/or what their name means to them. If the student doesn't have a story about their name, they can use a relative's name or about a name they wish they had. ** Assessment:  ** Have students write a paragraph or two about their favorite scene and why. This is their ticket out the door.
 * Unit Title: **__Hard Love__ by Ellen Wittlinger

"dog coffee" by Ani DiFranco perpetrating counter-culture she is walking through the park first light ugly and more muscular than the dark pushing poems at the urban silence drawing portraits of the passers-by sitting on the curb combining traffic sounds getting dirty looks and dirty jeans on the dirty ground she says i can't figure out what kind of life this is   comedy or tragedy i just know it's show biz and what if i don't agree with the lines i have to read they don't pay me enough the way i see it   freedom and democracy that's the word from washington every day put america's to sleep with warm milk and clichés and people are expendable along the way your dollar is dependable what more can we say would you like some dog coffee it is all that we've got you can have some you can have not would you like some dog coffee it is all that we've got we're taking care of big business and meanwhile some of the beans rot

"the slant" by Ani DiFranco the slant a building settling around me   my figure female framed crookedly in the threshold of the room door scraping floorboards with every opening carving a rough history of bedroom scenes the plot hard to follow the text obscured in the folds of sheets slowly gathering the stains of seasons spent lying there red and brown like leaves fallen the colors of an eternal cycle fading with the wash cycle and the rinse cycle again an unfamiliar smell like my name misspelled or misspoken a cycle broken the sound of them strong stalking talking about their prey like the way hammer meets nail pounding, they say pounding out the rhythms of attraction like a woman was a drum like a body was a weapon like there was something more they wanted than the journey like it was owed to them steel toed they walk and i'm wondering why this fear of men maybe it's because i'm hungry and like a baby i'm dependent on them to feed me   i am a work in progress dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding offering me intricate patterns of questions rhythms that never come clean and strengths that you still haven't seen