Facts About Neuroplasticity

Class Plans:

i. Office hours this week:

• Tuesday, 10:15 – 11:15am
• Wednesday, 12:30 – 1:30pm
• Thursday, 10:45 – 11:45am
• Friday, 3:30 – 5:00pm

ii. Getting started: Instead of journals, since you should be writing your final reflection already, we will start with questions about the reflection and portfolio. Has anyone read the FAQs, accessible through the homepage, regarding portfolio grading?

I. Pat Mora Author Presentation

II. Found Poetry Day!

Remember Google Poems? There’s more like that.

• Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld, arranged by Hart Seely
  • Rumsfeld was George W. Bush’s Defense Secretary
  • Found Poetry Set to Opera by Bryant Kong
    • Consider the purpose/ affect
• Directory of VA Benefits, Al Fogel
• I Said No, Diane Curan
• Thorns to Rescue Their Bodies, Annie Christain (handout)
• Making our own, where to look:
  • collage poems (Trump collage example)
    • magazines
    • bills and other personal artifacts
    • junk mail
    • political ads
  • emails/ texts
  • poem lines (don’t forget to credit)
  • textbooks (credit)
  • recipes
  • horoscopes
  • bulletin boards
  • dictionaries
  • tech manuals/ instruction book[lets]
  • book titles in a row (take a picture)
• Found poems work well for hermit crab style poems – poems that appear to be about a recipe, for a example, but are arranged so that they also seem to be about love or parenting or crime.
• Let’s Play until the last 5 minutes of class.

III. Student Exit Slips – No name required:

• What questions do you still have about the final portfolio/ reflection?
• Do you have any questions about publishing individual poems, stories, and cnf pieces? (I will go over these tomorrow, as time permits.)

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Homework: Work on portfolio and final reflection.