Day Six: Sharing (Publishing) Poems and Smell-a-Rama

 Yesterday we shared the poems we had revised. Most of us shared "Where I am From" poems, but Renee took the macro revision strategy of saving one line from a draft and building a new poem from it. I will be starting a new page soon (the tabs at the top of the blog) for the poems we have published.

We also held a "Smell-a-Rama," an activity that a former co-teacher and I used to do with our middle-school students to prep for writing odes. In our case the writing partners smelled various items, such as lemon zest, thyme, freshly ground coffee, garlic, and mentholatum while jotting down the answers to the following prompts:

Thanks Anne!

We will use these notes of associations or memories to write odes next meeting which will be on Tuesday, March 16, as we are going to once a week. 

Homework: Read some of Pablo Neruda's odes to common things:

1. Here is a link to an introduction to Neruda's work with odes including a couple examples and a template for writing an ode:https://cap.ucla.edu/data/dfs/download/20_Ode_to_Ordinary_Things-_Poetry_ActivitypdfvTVT.pdf
   
   
2. Here is another link from a teacher (in Kenya?) that has links to several of Neruda's poems: (He also discusses translating poetry in this post.)  https://medium.com/dead-poets-society/prompt-ode-to-common-things-e5cd2a0a1777                                                                                                                
3. Here is another link: https://www.theexaminedlife.org/library/odes-to-common-things/