Presentation Dates

WEDNESDAY – 12/5

Baizhan

Melissa

Mark

Guled

Luisa

Jefly

Ikenna

MONDAY 12/10

Hassan

Cheyenne

Mike

Muhammad

Raymond Lamothe

Raymond Leiva

Aileen

Leo

Tsiane

WEDNESDAY 12/12

Jennifer

Juliana

Lovely

Tony

Jean Paul

Sotheary

Hicham

Resources for Poetry Presentations

The close reading slideshow can be found here. You can also consult this handout on writing about poetry.
 

If you want to make a Power Point of your own, this is a great set of instructions.

The following sites are great places to look for bios of poets and/or recordings of their work:

poets.org
poemhunter.com
biography.com
poetryarchive.org

Homework for Wednesday

Read Ch. 8 & 9. Write a paragraph explaining the use of literal and figurative language in your assigned poem.

IMPORTANT!

BE SURE TO CHECK YOUR BHCC EMAIL FOR AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT TOMORROW'S CLASS!

Son of a Citation Machine

Use this link to create your citation:

http://citationmachine.net/index2.php?reqstyleid=1&mode=form&rsid=3&reqsrcid=MLAChapter&more=yes&nameCnt=1&source_title=Anthology%20or%20Compilation%20(including%20textbook)

Using Quotes. Paraphrases and Summary in a Literary Analysis Paper

You can review the handout we looked at in class here:
http://www.gmc.edu/students/arc/documents/Literary%20analysis.pdf

You can also find a list of signal phrases here:
http://www.plattsburgh.edu/files/2/files/Signal%20Phrases.pdf

Assigned Poems

Hassan – “It’s Raining in Love” by Richard Brautigan

Baizhan – “Death Be Not Proud” by John Donne

Cheyenne – “Legacy” by Amiri Baraka

Melissa – “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron

Michael – “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks

Mark—“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop

Jennifer – “Sex Without Love” by Sharon Olds

Juliana – “Elvis Kissed Me” by T.S. Kerrigan

Hicham – “The Colonel” by Carolyn Forche

Lovely – “Making a Fist” by Naomi Shihab Nye

Guled -- “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” by William Shakespeare

Muhammad – “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost

Raymond (Lamothe) – “Facing It” by Yusef Komunyakaa

Raymond (Leiva) – “Not Waving But Drowning” by Stevie Smith

Luisa – “Song” by Christina Rossetti

Aileen – “Hanging Fire” by Audre Lorde

Leo – “Morning Song” by Sylvia Plath

Jefly – “If Grief for Grief” by Emily Bronte

Tsiane – “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks

Ikenna – “Little Boy Found” by William Blake

Tony –  “A Story About the Body” by Robert Hass

Jean Paul – “Selecting a Reader” by Ted Kooser

Sotheary – “The Body as Braille” by Lorna Dee Cervantes