![]() Bring 6 hard copies of the first draft of your poem to class tomorrow, and we will begin workshopping with peers. Just like last time, the iambic pentameter assignment will be the homework for this evening. I will circulate the room and offer help, and make sure everyone stays on task. (30 minutes) the remaining time of the period will be spent in drafting an iambc pentameter poem. Your poem can look like anything, it doesn't have to be a sonnet, but it does have to follow iambic pentameter, at least for three subsequent lines somewhere in the poem. See how many lines you can get to fit the guidelines for iambic pentameter. You are tasked with creating a poem that uses at least three lines of iambic pentameter. For today's class activity we will practice writing poetry in iambic pentameter. Although random poetry made up of existing lines usually generates perfect iambic pentameter, the possibilities are fairly limited. ![]() Now this is not iambic pentameter, if this was iambic pentameter, what would it look like? ![]() Take the next five minutes to complete diagramming the meter of the song. You are to follow along on your lyric sheets and annotate the stressed and unstressed syllables. ![]() The first acitvity will be a close reading of the song "Rapper's Delight' by the Sugar Hill Gang. (15 minutes) I will now pass out the lyrics to "Rapper's Delight." You will have a chance today to look at the concept of meter. You will be able to use iambic pentameter to build a coherent poem with a discrete tone. ![]() (5 minutes) housekeeping, attendance, announcements ![]()
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