Slam Poetry 321

3 things that you are looking forward to learning, developing or using in your poetry over the course of our slam workshops.

1. I want to learn more about the lines and timing in a slam poem. For example, do slam poems have stanzas?

2. I wanted to find out some stuff about rhyming vs non-rhyming poems. Are there ways to incorporate a mixture of rhyming parts and non-rhyming parts in the same poem?

3. Do you have to perform it for it to be considered a spoken word or slam poem? If so, what type of poem would it be if you just wrote it and didn't perform?

2 things that Beth Anne or Greg reinforced that we have already been doing in class, or you have already been doing in your own writing.

1. I thought it was really cool that Greg mentioned that literally anything written is poetry. I've never thought about it in that way but it completely makes sense.

2. I loved how Beth Anne used body language and acting to really add to her poetry. It makes you feel more connected as she performs and helps you to understand what she is saying.

1 poem that you wrote yesterday

I didn't finnish the poem or anything but ths is what I have so far:

Laptop

Laptops clicking open to expose a world of viruses, facebook, pornography. A world of mystery and fear that somehow sucks you in and clutches you into a hug. A hug that seems welcoming yet will come back to haunt you when you least expect it.

All life would close if all laptops closed. We, the human race have become dependent on our laptops. They are the drug of social updates and the life around us that we are too afraid to step into, so instread we open our laptops.

If it were to crash, our homework, our knowledge, our lives would crash. But hey, do we have a choice?

Assignment #10 Mystery History Maker

My Mystery History match was David McTaggart.

1. Were you able to identify your history maker using the clues provided?

Yes, I was. David McTaggart protested against abuse of the Antarctic and the whaling industry. He also dropped out of High School to pursue activism because that's what he believed in. (I don't plan on dropping out but | think it's cool that he stood up for his beliefs.)

2. What do you have in common with this person?

His birthday is only 2 weeks before mine. He started greenpeace and I'm also an environmentalist. We are both Canadian. He retired to live on an olive farm and olives are my favourite food.

3. Why is this person historically significant in Canada?

David McTaggart is historically significant to Canada because he was a Canadian environmentalist who played a key role in Greenpeace Inernational.

Original assignment

Museum of Civilization

Mystery History Maker

More info on David McTaggart

Assignment #14 (Reading Buddies Poem)

This is the poem that I made with my reading buddy Maxine.

Here in the ghetto there is no light

Waiting for sunshine, you're always in fright

Still on children's faces you see delight

If only their futures could be so bright

They try to escape but the guards keep them in

A scream creeps out as they break through

But you know the dream wont come true

The fence will always win.

Professor Scott Reflection

Hey Folks,

Here's a video of my Professor Scott Reflection. You might have to crank your volume up, but maybe not, it really depends on your speakers. Just let the video start and then you can determine your volume level.

If you're having problems with the video it pretty much says this:

(3) What did you learn?

I learned that the width of train tracks were decided because they matched it to the width of distance between a horse's hind legs.

I learned that before they had a good method of transportation it took around 36 hours to get from Montreal to Quebec City.

I learned that a large source of communication in the 19th century was through Shakespeare plays.

(1) What technology interested you?

The telegraph/morse code interested me because it was like the old method of texting.

(3)How did it impact society?

It impacted society because they had a quick way to send messages from far distances (they didn't have phones back then.)

It was much faster than typing so it really came in handy for people.

It was a new and exciting was of communicating.

(2) What questions do you have?

I was wondering if the school, Colonel By was named for Colonel John By (the man that made the Rideau canal.)

I heard Professor Scott mention the word "Dorchester" and I was wondering what is has to do with History because the building I live in is called "The Dorchester."

(1) Tie into a big History idea.

This ties into History is a collection of stories because before they had all this technology people learned things from stories and what they read.