D Block Poetry Project Videos

Here are D Block's Favorite Poems:

Tess



Ally



Nicole



Nick



Chris




Anaya




Scott




Julia



Blake




Alex




Hank




Daisy




Abby



Charlotte




Issac




Rick

Z Block Poetry Project Videos

Here are Z Block's Favorite Poems:

Sky



Seanna



Trevor




Ashani




Mike




Josie




Brendan




Colin




Sam



George




James





Maia




Sandy



Ethan

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

McMurphy's song:



Or do you prefer the Muppet version?

Short Story Unit

Here's a short film version of "Harrison Bergeron":





Want to write like Vonnegut?  Here are his tips for writing with style.

For Form III, we select poems from an anthology:

Introduction to Poetry edited by X. J. Kennedy & Dana Goia:

1. Shakespeare, "Shall I Compare Thee…"



                                           Other sonnets: Collins, "Sonnet" Arnold, "Shakespeare"

2.  Frost, "Out, Out-"




3. Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz"



4. Sexton, "Her Kind"




5. Olds, "Rite of Passage"(with Audio)


6. Williams, "This Is Just to Say"




7. Eliot, "The Winter Evening Settles Down"


8. Tennyson, "The Eagle"



9. Rich, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"
(Text from Prof. Al Filreis English 88 Modern & Contemporary American Poetry)

10. Browning, "My Last Duchess" (with Audio)

11. Plath, “Metaphors” (with a paragraph of analysis)

12. Lawrence, “Piano”

13. Bottoms, "Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt" (Handout—this is not in the book)


Additional Poets & Poems:

Grammar - Parenthetical Expressions / Appositives / Restrictive & Nonrestrictive Clauses

I am a big fan of Grammar Girl for finding clever ways to remember the rules.  Here's her lesson on Appositives.


Looking for more practice sentences?  Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) has a ridiculous number to try.  They can be found here.

And here are some more.