Lesson 44

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

WELCOME BACK 

Today’s lesson 

• Starting with period 4 (last period of the year!)
  
• These last few months: 
  
• Poetry project (1x)
  
• Reading test (1x) 
  
• Today: introduction poetry project!

Poetry project 

• What is poetry to you?
  
• What is it according to other sources?
  
• Find poems
  
• Choose a group favourite
  

What is poetry to you? 

What is poetry to you? 

• Write down in one sentence what poetry is according to you, try to also explain what the most important thing is about poetry (Do you think it should always rhyme? Or is it more about the message? What do you think is important about poetry) You have 3 minutes.
  
• Now look it up on your iPad. What is poetry according to other sources (such as Wikipedia/online dictionary etc.) What are your findings? Does it differ from your own view? Write it down – you have 5 minutes.
  
• Class discussion on your findings
  

What is poetry to you? 

• William Wordsworth defined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
  
• Emily Dickinson said, "If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I know that is poetry."
• Dylan Thomas defined poetry this way: "Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing." 

00:46

What do you already know about the characteristics of a poem?

01:48

True or False: A poem always needs to be lyrical.

1. True
2. False

02:50

Do you think song lyrics is poetry?

Yes

No

03:34

The Greek word “poiesis” means “to _____.”

1. Live
2. Destroy
3. Create

What is poetry to you? 

“ANOTHER LOVE,” WRITTEN BY TOM ODELL  

I wanna take you somewhere so you know I care

But it’s so cold and I don’t know where

I brought you daffodils in a pretty string

But they won’t flower like they did last spring

And I wanna kiss you, make you feel alright

I’m just so tired to share my nights

I wanna cry and I wanna love

But all my tears have been used up   

•  We cannot be in a relationship if our soul is with someone else. The entire song “Another Love” is an elegy to that very situation. No matter how hard we try, our will is just not there, and sooner or later we must leave. 
  

Tupac

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's laws wrong it learned how to walk without havin feet.
Funny it seems but, by keeping its dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.
No one else even cared..
The rose that grew from concrete.

Find poems 

• You have 15 minutes to find 3 poems that you really like. Write down the titles and authors.
  
• TIP: https://poets.org/poetry-teens
• Which poem, out of all 3, do you like best and why – write that down
  

Choose a group favorite 

• Get in groups of 3 and TPS your poems (the one poem you liked the best)! Make sure you not only recite your poem but also state why you like it so much (and why others should choose this as their most favourite poem as well). You have 10 minutes.
• You need to pick one single poem because you’re going to explore that poem further in the next lesson.

• Recite your poems aloud and tell us why you chose this one