Blog assignment
Words are used for different purposes. Some of them hurt, others give us hope or sound like music. These are called poetry. This is about time you listened to some of them and tried to "hear" their tune.
In this assignment you will have to do the following:
1. Choose two out of the following poems:
1) We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
2) When I was one and twenty by Alfred Edward Housman
3) The road not taken by Robert Frost
4) Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
5) "Hope " is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson
6) Football by Louis Jenkins
2. Analyze them by finding out:
1) what aspect of life the poem relates to
2) what the poet's message is
3) what poetic means ( metaphor, simile, personification, symbolism, repitition) are used to convey the message
4) how the subject of the poem applies to your life
3. Post your analysis on my blog
4. Choose any two different posts and evaluate the analysis of one of the poems in each of them. Do not pick the poems that you have analyzed in your post.
5. Complete the evaluation form attached in the end of the assignment. Do not copy all the rubrics, just the criteria and the grade you are giving.
Every student's final grade will be the average of the teacher's assessment and peer evaluation. 20 points will be deducted if a student does not evaluate the peers' posts.
מחוון להערכת תוצר למידה
| Criteria | Rubrics | |||
| Analysis requirements | All analysis requirements are met 20 | Three out of four analysis requirements are met 15 | Only two analysis requirements are met 10 | Only one analysis requirement is met 5 |
| Content | The analysis shows deep understanding of the poem 50 | The poem was analyzed rather well 40 | The poem was analyzed well but some important issues are missing 20 | The analysis shows poor understanding of the poem 10 |
| Vocabulary | The use of varied advanced vocabulary 10 | The use of appropriate vocabulary 5 | Occasional mistakes in the choice of words and expressions 3 | Poor vocabulary, numerous mistakes in the choice of words 0 |
| Grammar | No mistakes in the use of grammar structures 10 | Some mistakes in the use of grammar structures 5 | A lot of mistakes in the use of grammar structures 3 | The mistakes make the understanding problematic 0 |
| Mechanics | No mistakes in spelling and punctuation 10 | Almost no mistakes in spelling and punctuation 8 | Occasional mistakes in spelling and punctuation 4 | A lot of mistakes in spelling and punctuation 0 |
