1. Understand more poetry terms.
2. Learn all the different types of poem forms.
3. Be able to understand why the author wrote the poem, the author's purpose for writing it.
4. Learn how to analyze poetry better.
5. Grasp the attitude of the poem more quickly.
I chose these goals for my poetry skills because after working through the practice poems I realized how long it took me to fully understand them. I also realized that my vocabulary really needs some work and that I would really like to work on not only my poetry terms but my vocabulary in general because I think that a person's vocabulary is very important. I said that I wanted to grasp the attitude of the poem more quickly or the mood faster because I think that once you understand the feeling of the poem it is easier to analyze the rest of it.
I think there's some overlap in your list of goals, but I really like what you have to say in your paragraph of explanation!
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ReplyDeleteI think you have some really great goals, and I think ours overlap a lot. I agree that vocabulary is really important, but I always struggled with expanding mine. It's sort of hard to just crack open a dictionary and start memorizing! :) Thankfully, we'll learn some really good ones through all of our warm ups and books/plays we are going to read this year!
Erin Donahue
I see a lot of similarities in the goals of everyone in our group :) My opinion is that tackling the tone and message is more important than memorizing more vocabulary. Expanding vocabulary is important, but its not productive to learn a few more random words, because they probably won't even come up and the test, and some others that you didn't study probably will. I think that if you understand the tone and purpose of a poem, you can infer the meaning of unfamiliar words, but often you can understand every single word in a poem and still have no idea what its about.
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