The comments that you leave here will apply to the "Poetry In The Wild" column on our grade book.
You can score up to 30 points in the "Poetry In The Wild" column of our gradebook.
You can score 30 points of the total 30 by attending a meeting of LBCC's Poetry Club and writing an account, poetic or otherwise, about the meeting. Your post should be at least 200 words long. You might share about the student poetry you heard read and discussed at the meeting. You might share about any poetry writing tips one of the students received from the group. You might write about a great poem that was read, concentrating not only on the poem itself but also on the way it was read and the emotions expressed.
Your purpose with this post will be to let your readers know about what happens at the poetry club meetings. Are they fun? Informative? Fantastic?
Poetry Club meets Every Tuesday from 3 - 4 in the Hot Shot Cafe on campus.
Your review of the meeting will take care of all the points you need to score for the "Poetry In The Wild" assignment.
OPTION 2:
15 points.
You will discover a list of over 1000 different websites about poetry in the Google Directory linked to here:
http://www.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Poetry/
Please write a 200 word review in the comments area here of one of these sites. Let us know what audience the website might be useful for and how it might be useful.
If you decide to use OPTION 2 to score your Poetry In The Wild points you will need to write reviews about two websites.
OPTION 3 -- This is a single review for the full 30 points. 4/6/2011
Oregon's very own Poet Laureate is speaking in the Library Reading Room at 12:00 NOON. You may attend her reading/presentation and respond in 200 words here. You will receive the full 30 points of Poetry In The Wild points for visiting her reading and writing a 200 word response that you post here. Some thoughts to consider for your post might be:
How does watching and listening to this poet change your relationship to the poetry that you are experiencing?
How does the event touches both your mind and your heart?
Oregon's Poet Laureate will also be offering a workshop at 1:00 -- this is intended for people interested in learning more about writing poetry. You can also earn the full 30 points by responding to your experience attending this event and leaving your 200 word response. Please also include any lines of poetry you developed during the course of her lesson.
So, in summary: You can get the full 30 points for attending the 12:00 o'clock session or the 1:00 o'clock session. If you attend both you still get just the maximum 30 points.
Option 4: This is a brief discussion of your visit to the Open Source Club for 30 points. Please also include a haiku or a limerick.
On Tuesdays, at 2:00 PM some students are getting together NSH 208 to learn about something called The Open Source Software Movement. You can earn 30 points of Poetry In The Wild Points if you visit the meeting and write a poem about any aspect of your experience sharing interest in the topic and learning about it. You can write any kind of poem that you believe will express your impressions in the way that you wish to.
OPTION 5: Love lies and lunacy response 30 points
OPTIONS 6: Write about how a movie, story or play incorporates poetry. 30 points.
OPTION 7: Discuss any set of song lyrics as poetry. What do they gain if we read them without the music? What do they lose when the music is taken away? 30 points.
DEADLINE: WEDNESDAY OF WEEK 10.
You will need to leave something like your name here so that I will know who you are. It's best not to go leaving your name on-line willy nilly all over the Internet so here are some ways for you to let me know who wrote the comment without you leaving a "searchable" trace that will follow you forever:
If your name is Daniel Silversmith, I would be able to credit your post if you leave: Silver-smeeth, D.
Note the hyphen, the slight change in spelling and the use of the initial. All of those alterations will protect your identity online from strangers but allow me to know which person you are in my class.
If your name was Tracy Allen, I could credit a post by Tracee Arlen. Get the idea? As long as the actual initials are correct and the sound is pretty close, I should be able to figure this out.
You might also just scramble the letters in your name leaving the first and last letters the same. My name looks like this when I scramble it:
Crhis Reisely
That's never going to be discovered by a search for my actual name but you can recognize it well enough.
So... just leave your comment here and your points will get added to the gradebook. Remember that you need to score 30 points on the "Poetry in the Wild" assignment. You can visit the Poetry Club once or review two of the poetry websites linked to the in the Google Directory above.
