BLOGWORK FOR WEDNESDAY APRIL 9

POST AN AD, COMERCIAL, OR PUBLIC SERVICE ANOUNCEMENT THAT YOU REALLY LIKE, AND TELL ME WHY. ALSO START BRAINSTORMING IDEAS FOR YOUR OWN AD. IT CAN BE ABOUT ANYTHING. YOU MUST PROMOTE AN IDEA, A PRODUCT, OR ANYTHING YOU FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT IN NO MORE THAN 20 SECONDS. YOU CAN USE YOUR OWN IMAGES OR COPY THEM FROM CYBERSPACE.

BLOGWORK, Friday, March 28th

After posting a YouTube version of your favorite English song and the lyrics in the side column, navigate and investigate the net to find out about her/his biography. Post an article entitle "WHO IS your artist's name"

BE SURE to include:

where he or she is from, how they got started in the music world, their first and famous songs, and some interesting or curious anecdotal information.

DO NOT LIMIT YOUR SELF TO THE COPY/PASTE TECHNICQUE. READ THE INFORMATION YOU FIND AND PUT IT IN YOUR OWN WORDS.

FOUNDATIONS

EASTER BREAK BLOGWORK

CHOOSE one day of your EASTER HOLIDAY and WRITE a diary of that day. Be sure to include a DIALOGUE ...either between you and someone else, or two or more people whose conversation you've listened to on that day. HAVE FUN with this. BE DIFFERENT AND CREATIVE. I don't want a boring report of the day's activities. Make it interesting and introspective. Or funny, or sarcastic, imaginatively narrated, or . . . .

my classmates' blogs

BLOGWORK FOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5

1. FINISH YOUR "SAD STORY WITH A HAPPY ENDING" BLOG
2. GO TO THE CORRECTIONS PAGE AND VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE 3 BLOGS
3. ADD A COMMENT TO ONE OF THESE BLOGS (COMPLEMENT OR CRITISIZE IT)
4. PUT A LINK TO HIS/HER BLOG ON YOUR BLOG (FAVORITE CLASSMATE BLOG)
5. USE YOUR "PROFILE" TO FIND SOMEONE WHO SHARES AN INTEREST WITH YOU AND PUT A LINK TO THEIR BLOG ON YOUR BLOG
   

WHAT IS POETRY ??

Grasping at the Indefinable

There are as many definitions of poetry as there are poets. Wordsworth defined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings;" Emily Dickinson said, "If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I know that is poetry;" and Dylan Thomas defined poetry this way: "Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing."

Poetry is the chiseled marble of language; it's a paint-spattered canvas - but the poet uses words instead of paint, and the canvas is you.

Poetry is evocative. It typically evokes in the reader an intense emotion: joy, sorrow, anger, catharsis, love

One of the most definable characteristics of the poetic form is economy of language, considering a word's emotive qualities, its musical value, its spacing, and yes, even its spacial relationship to the page.

There's your definition of poetry. Because defining poetry is like grasping at the wind - once you catch it, it's no longer wind.