8th Grade ELA’s Poetic Pause

Beginning on October 6, 2015, one learner will “present” on the poet of the week during our Poetic Pause.

Each Tuesday another learner will present on a new poet/ poem.

Learners can choose any poem/poet from the list, but once a poem/poet has been presented, it cannot be presented again.

Presentations can be digital (PowerPoint/Build a Board) or physical (poster/ brochure/ newsletter).

In your presentation you must include the following:

  1. Recite your entire poem (from memory or read off the page/ screen) – 5 pts
  2. Brief biographical information about the author/ poet – 5 pts
  3. Illustration of the poem (all the poems on the list are about objects). – 10pts
  4. One “interesting” fact about either the poet or poem -5 pts
  5. An analysis the poem – 25 pts
  6. What did the poet mean when s/he wrote it?
  7. When was the poem written (context), and how does this time period affect the poem?
  8. How does this poem relate to your own life or the world?
  9. What did the poet intend for you to feel when reading the poem?
  10. If applicable, what “form” is the poem (haiku, sonnet, free verse, etc.)
  11. Does the poem have a rhyme scheme?

BONUS: For five bonus points, include an original poem that you wrote that mirrors the style, subject or tone of the poet of the week.

25 points of Literary Analysis

25 points of Oration & Participation.

Due on date assigned.

My Date is:______

My Poet is: ______

Dr. Mulholland’s Poetic Pause Choices

Early Middle Ages: 400-1000

A Bookwork by Anonymous

“A Solitary Wildgoose” by Cui Tu

“Grass” by BaiJuyi, translated by LanHua

High Middle Ages: 1000 - 1500

“A Just-Finishing Candle” by Rumi

“On this Summer Night” by Jusammi Chikako

The Renissance: 1500 – late 1600

“Midnight Frost” by Basho

“So Breaks the Sun” by Ben Jonson

“A Burnt Ship” by John Dunne

The Enlightenment: late 1600s-1785

“A Hymn to Evening” by PhillisWheatly

“A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns

The Romantic Period: 1785-1830

“A Sick Rose” by William Blake

“To the Moon” by Charlotte Smith

“I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” by William Wordsworth

Victorian Period: 1837-1901

“The Eagle” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Snow-Flakes” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The Dismantled Ship” by Walt Whitman

“Street Lanterns” by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

“My Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson

“Cobwebs” by Christina Rosetti

“The Railway Train” by Emily Dickinson

Modern Period: 1900-1945

“Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams

“The Cat and the Moon” by William Butler Yeats

“Stars” by Langston Hughes

“A Cloud Shadow” by Robert Frost

“Driftwood” by Witter Bynner

“Boxes and Bags” by Carl Sandburg

“City Trees” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Postmodern Period: 1945- Present

“Manhole Covers” by Karl Shapiro

“I thank You God for most this amazing day”

by e.e. Cummings

“The Cat” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Contemporary

“Ode to a Stamp Album” by Pabulo Neruda

“A Birthday Card” by Ted Kooser

“The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver

“The Death of the Hat” by Billy Collins

“Flash Cards” by Rita Dove

“Famous” by Naomi Shihbe Nye

Learner / Presentation Date
KadenWayer
Kaeli Wedel
Dylan Walker / October 13, 2015
Brooke Tritz
Nick Vu
Emily Wale / October 20. 2015
Jimmy Wale
Avery Tritz
Julia van Oordt / October 27. 2015
Ryan Stanley
Elizabeth Sauerbaum
Connor Stoll / November 3, 2015
Aidan Rice
Sofia Santoro
Eric Sanchez / November 12, 2015
Pierce Reed
Eli Robles,
Meagan Rowlett / November 17, 2015
Gabby Ramirez,
Mary Robinson
Gavin Rissling / December 1, 2015
Ethan Potts,
Matthew Pacheco
Grant Reskey / December 8. 2015
Allie Pincus,
Grace Reskey,
Lauren Polusky / December 15, 2015
Mikey Mira,
Olivia O’Malley
Payton Pierce / January 12, 2016
Angelina Mejia,
Jack O’Keefe
Isabella Pacheco / January 19. 2016
Kayla McIntosh,
Michael O’Connor
& John O’Melveny / January 26, 2016
Audrey Lambros,
Ronan Mundy
Kennedy Neppl / February 2, 2016
Cameron Kaabi,
Ronan Morris
Paige Myers / February 9. 2016
Ashton Acquanita,
Jordan Allain, / February 11, 2016
Patrick Hunter,
Max Montoya,
Laura Johnstone / February 16, 2016
Maura Hayes,
Dante Maser-Moceri,
Caden Jackson / February 18, 2016
Jenny Hatton,
Connor Marking,
David Hornung / February23, 2016
Johnny Giannola,
Katie Macfee
Lizzie Goodwin / February 24, 2016
Avery Acquanita,
Mary Cameron
Julian Barreto / February 25, 2016
Rylan Engels,
Kevin Lynch
Claire Crafts / March 1, 2016
Gordy Foerstel,
Stephanie Kraus,
Anthony Collins / March 2, 2016
Patrick Bayeh,
KateCerniglia,
Merino Bertola / March 3, 2016
Conner DiFilippo,
Adam Gromotsky,
Drew Clark / March 8, 2016
Harrison Clifton,
Griffin Gershensen
Ethan Chung / March 9, 2016
Hunter Benson,
Lauren Clibon
Mia Brady / March 10, 2015
Colton Clark,
James Fermelia,
Logan Bredek / March 15, 2015