Day 3 – Word Sounds

DISCUSSION

What songs do we know and love?  Sing them.  (e.g., “Moonshadow,” “Mushi-mushi,” “Shut-Eye Town”)

How are poems and songs related?  How do they differ?  Are they different?

What songs do we remember?  Why do we remember them?

POETRY LESSON #3:  Hearing the sounds of the words

ACTIVITY:

Listen, with your eyes closed, to Sting’s song, “I was brought to my senses” (from the Mercury Falling CD). After listening, draw what you heard.

CRAFT:

onomatopoeia

alliteration

word list of “sound” words

TRADITION/PEER POETS:

Caedmon’s Hymn

Gerard Manly Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur”; Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool”; Robert Frost, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”

Langston Hughes, The Dream-Keeper and Other Poems

WRITE:

Write a song, a poem using “sound” words, a poem about a memory of something you heard (“Baby Mozart”??), a poem about a song or a longer piece of music, such as a symphony

HOMEWORK:

Collect the recipes of three of your favorite dishes.  Prepare one of these dishes.  Bring the three recipes and the dish to class next time for the “Poetry Potluck.”