Warm-up: Please click here to give some needed feedback about our Debate Unit.
Today we will...
- Finish debates if necessary.
- Go over your debate feedback.
- Discuss our next unit....poetry!
- Billy Collins ~ "The Country" (Previous Poet Laureate of the U.S.)
- Jesse Parent ~ "To the Boys Who May One Day Date My Daughter"
- Maya Angelou ~ "Still I Rise"
- Kanye West ~ "Self Conscious"
- Jefferson Bethke ~ "Counterfeit Gods"
- Propaganda ~ "Too Creative"
- Watch a Slam Competition...in great accents!
- Phil Kaye ~ a TED talk about Poetry in a maximum security prison.
- Neil Hilborn ~ "OCD"
- Kaye & Kay ~ "When Love Arrives"
- Kioni "Popcorn" Marshall ~ a 12 year old poet from NYC
- And just for fun, a clip from Dead Poets' Society
HW: Make sure that you have access to quizlet.com or the quizlet app on your ipad tomorrow.
