Adopt-a-Poet Project AP Literature Assignment: poetry, lives, literary movements, beliefs Explore and research the and of one of the poets listed below (or another poet approved by me). Find poems online, in the library, and/or in our anthology; memorize a few poems; explore their philosophies. In other words, adopt your poets and become the class expert on them. a 3-4 page essay in which you make a statement, a claim, about the poets and their work. Use facts about the poets' lives and times only if they help prove your thesis about the poets and their poetry. This essay is not a biographical sketch; instead it is an analysis of the poems you choose (not just the poet). You will lead the class in a mini Socratic Seminar about one of the poems by your poet. In paper thesis addition to using your and your to guide your seminar, you will develop dependent questions to use as the basis of your seminar discussion. We will practice how to write insightful text-dependent questions in class. Be sure to have a handout with some basic biographical information, pictures, the text of the poem you would like to discuss, and the questions for your classmates to prepare for the seminar. Try to get all the information, the text of the poem, and the questions on one sheet (both sides). Be ready to lead your seminar on your assigned day. Poets to choose from: 20th Centuni: Pre-20 Centurl,' th W.H. Auden Matthew Arnold Elizabeth Bishop William Gwendolyn Brooks Robert Browning Carl Sandburg Elizabeth Barrett Browning e.e. cummings Robert T.S. Eliot Lord Byron Robert Frost Samuel Taylor Coleridge Seamus Heaney Emily Dickinson Langston Hughes John Donne Naomi Shihab-Nye Thomas Hardy Neruda A.E. Housman Octavio Paz John Keats Sylvia Plath Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ezra John Milton
Adopt-a-Poet Project AP Literature Assignment: Explore and research the poetry, lives, literary movements, and beliefs of one of the poets listed below (or another poet approved by me). Find poems online, in the library, and/or in our anthology; memorize a few poems; explore their philosophies. In other words, adopt your poets and become the class expert on them. a 3-4 page essay in which you make a statement, a claim, about the poets and their work. Use facts about the poets' lives and times only if they help prove your thesis about the poets and their poetry. This essay is not a biographical sketch; instead it is an analysis of the poems you choose (not just the poet). You will lead the class in a mini Socratic Seminar about one of the poems by your poet. In addition to using your paper and your thesis to guide your seminar, you will develop dependent questions to use as the basis of your seminar discussion. We will practice how to write insightful text-dependent questions in class. Be sure to have a handout with some basic biographical information, pictures, the text of the poem you would like to discuss, and the questions for your classmates to prepare for the seminar. Try to get all the information, the text of the poem, and the questions on one sheet (both sides). Be ready to lead your seminar on your assigned day. Poets to choose from: 20th Centuni: Pre-20 th Centurl,' W.H. Auden Matthew Arnold Elizabeth Bishop William Gwendolyn Brooks Robert Browning Carl Sandburg Elizabeth Barrett Browning e.e. cummings Robert T.S. Eliot Lord Byron Robert Frost Samuel Taylor Coleridge Seamus Heaney Emily Dickinson Langston Hughes John Donne Naomi Shihab-Nye Thomas Hardy Neruda A.E. Housman Octavio Paz John Keats Sylvia Plath Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ezra John Milton
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