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During April, which is National Poetry Month, we will be reading and writing poems on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We will devote the first 30 minutes of class to the poetry and do our other writing in the last 20 minutes. All poems will be published in a Poetry Portfolio on your website. On the poetry page, insert a table. Put the title of each of your poems in a cell and then hyperlink to your poem which you will insert into a new page. In the calendar below are links to poems on the WWW. Click on the link, read the poem, then using the poem as a model, write your own poem on the same subject or following the model as the directions tell you.

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
	.	1 "Introduction to Poetry" After reading this poem write your own poem about how you feel about poetry - either reading or writing it	2	3 Read Ego Tripping, we will talk about Spoken Word Poetry and Hip Hop music. After re-reading it, write your own poem using this one as a model.
6 "The World is Not a Pleasant Place to Be" Read in your writing groups,discuss metaphors brainstorm things to go after "without" and write your own stanza for a group poem.	7	8 "The Moon" In a short poem, find a new way to describe something ordinary	9	10 "Slow Children At Play" In your groups think of other signs which can be read two ways and then write a poem using an unusual meaning for the sign
13 "Fast Break" Try writing your own poem about a moment in a sport or any other activity that mirrors the tempo of the event	14	15 Read Halloween and then choose a holiday of your choice to write a similar poem about. Note the use of figurative language.	16	17 Read "I Wrote a Good Omelet" Write your own poem where you mix up actions and objects.
20 "Gee, You're So Beautiful That it is Starting to Rain" What is so beautiful to you that it should be taught in school? Write a poem following the model of Brautigan's poem	21	22 Write Hypertext Haiku	23	24 Put your hypertext haiku on your blog or website and hyperlink to each other.
27 Create a Web Portfolio of your poetry. Arrange in the order you want the poems to go and then add a graphic to each poem. These should be hand drawn or scanned photos. Do not use Clip art.	28 Continue working on portfolio	29 Complete portfolio and send web address to your teacher and classmates	30 Poet-tea - share cookies and "tea" and the poems you liked best from classmates portfolios.