Next, you answered the question "What is poetry?" on a sticky note, and posted your answer on the board. Sashko was in charge of aesthetics, and did a fine job, as the picture below indicates:
We then had a fairly brief (but lively) discussion about criteria that would define the relative term "good poem." Your opinions were notable and included words like "evocative," which were all the more impressive at 9:15 AM. For an idea of the criteria that arose, see the picture below:
Having thus primed our brains about poetry and criteria for "good poems," we then asked you to divide into four groups, based on the claim that you chose as the subject of your homework paragraph. The groups were:
Song 1979 is a good poem.
Song 1979 is not a good poem.
Fear is a good poem
Fear is not a good poem.
Within those groups, we asked you to fill out a sheet (find a copy here) that would help you support one of the claims below:
Fear is a better poem than Song 1979.
Song 1979 is a better poem than Fear.
To fill out the sheet, you and your partners first established your own criteria for "good poem." You then gave evidence for ways that each poem did (or did not) meet those criteria. You were working on this up to the end of the period.
For homework, you will need to finish your "Subtotals" piece, which is due on Friday morning.
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