Week Five: Poetry

We read:

1. "Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall

2. "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson

We watched:

1. Buldoc-Simpson's Preaching on Poetry presentation

2."Frankie & Johnny" videos

We wrote:

1. A ballad

2. Final draft of paper 1

In my opinion, the best part of this week was the discussion forum that we did as our face to face class. I was honored to be nominated as a discussion leader and hope that I helped to facilitate a healthy discussion. I really tried to put together questions that I thought would be thought-provoking, and I found that I received great and emotional responses to the questions! I learned so much more than I expected about the poems. I know that Mrs. Simpson would have preferred to have a normal class but I think the discussion forum turned out to be better because the students went so in depth and everyone was able to speak and be heard!