new college jan 2012 wk2

Week 2

Learning Plans

What is Poetry?

Writing Exercises

Creative Writing

January 2012

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Previously ….

E is an important letter

We are looking for structure

We are looking for discipline

Lord of the Rings is a popular book

Previously

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We likeWe like

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What is Poetry?

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‘We are making birds not bird cages’

Dean Young – American Poet

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Writing Weaponry

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First draft

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Second draft

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Connection

‘Three studies of the human head’Francis Bacon

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Final poem

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The Exquisite Corpse

‘We have flowed out of ourselves’

Mina Loy – Modernist Poet

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It’s all about perspective

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Choose a poem from one of the books,study it carefully for 10 minutesWhat does it mean to you, why?

Read the poem to your partner and discuss

Use a line or the title as a prompt for a 12 line poem of your own.

The subject can be anything and for children or adults.

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Individual learning plans

1 to 1’s

(half of you this week, half next week)

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Books & Links

Writing Down The Bones – Natalie GoldbergThe Art of Recklessness – Dean YoungThe Making of a Poem – Eavan BolandThe Ode Less Travelled – Stephen Fry

www.swindonwriters.wordpress.com

www.swindonpoetryopenmic.blogspot.com

http://swindonwriterscafe.blogspot.com/

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