Research Progress Check / POL Tone Analysis

Your time in the lab today is dedicated to research and possibly tone analysis of one of your POL poems. 

RESEARCH:

By the end of the period, be prepared to share with me your notes document of compiled research.  As mentioned in the previous post, there should be "good evidence" of critical reading of sources, as well as a broad reading of sources.  The target I gave you for required sources was 6-10.  Somewhere in that slot should suffice for full credit on this project check, but only if the selected material you've pulled out has been meaningfully culled through and IS NOT merely a collection of unedited chunks of paragraphs or entire pages that have been cut and pasted from the articles.  I'll also be looking for the bibliographic citation for each source in your notes page.  And I'll also be looking for research that covers the opposition's point of view on your debatable question.

If you feel you're done with your research, try to find a pattern to the research.  What are the major categories and points of argumentation that have come across in your research that could use as the body framework for your speech/persuasive argument?  2-4 major sections, if well supported, should be plenty for this 3-5 minute speech.  Much more than that and you're going to run into trouble making the time limit and/or end up just listing off facts and stats.

POL: 

For class tomorrow you will submit a tone map analysis of your poem for credit. 

In a Word/Google document, create a tone map template for your own poem like the one we used for Jenny Kissed Me.  Remember that your entire poem should be accounted for in the tone map.  Feel free to add as many rows to the template as necessary.    

Section	Tone
Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in;	Fond reminiscence with tinges of being amused, affectionate
Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, Put that in!	Still amused (now by Time, rather than by Jenny), but growing a little wary, a little scornful Disdainful
Say I’m weary, Say I’m sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I’m growing old,	Candid, a little sad Lightly or playfully regretful

But add, Jenny kissed me,

Rallying, insistent Marveling, contented

When you're done, take your map and put it into a simple paragraph narrative.  Remember:  your poem will, without a dobut, have a dominant tone, but there should be shifts within it that give you as the reciter something to work with.  The map above (and the one you do for your poem) is the basis for this.  Give a shot.  To be clear, I want this turned in tomorrow as a hard copy, including a copy of your poem.  This is not a blog entry.

Speech Guidelines, POL, etc.

Our plan in the lab today is twofold: continue work on speech research AND select a couple of poems to use for the POL in class competition.

By the end of the period, compose a blog entry on your blog that has the following:

1. Your revised (if necessary) topic and debatable question AND a list of 10 subtopic questions for your topic/question (no answers necessary)
2. Links to at least two poems you've selected form the POL website.

SPEECH: For the speech, I'd like you to humor me a little by composing a list of 10 subtopic questions based on your topic and debatable question. This shouldn't take you long. As a step in the research process, it tricks you into thinking about your argument and how to proceed with finding the support for it. Rather than the yes/no debatable question, subtopic questions are very open ended and can't be answered with simple yes/no statements. They require specifics. They are the answer to the who, what, why, when, and how of your topic. Once you've completed these. Go and find the answers to them.

If you haven't already started compiling a notes page in a Word/Google document, you should start doing that today. On Wednesday (01/11) I'll be spot checking at the end of class for evidence of your critical reading of the sources in the form of cut and pasted snippets AND bibliographic citations for each source you draw from. Remembering, with your final draft of the speech you will submit a MLA Bibliography/Works Cited. For this project I'm requiring 6-10 sources. You should focus most of your research attention on SIRS, Issues and Controversies, and Opposing Viewpoints. I'll allow for more no more than 2 "free web" sources. Just so you know, on Tuesday of next week (01/17) we'll be work shopping the rough drafts of our speeches and possibly doing some small group practice with these.

POETRY OUT LOUD: Go to the POL website and find a couple of poems that you'd be comfortable developing oral recitations of. There are lots of ways to sort the poems. Remember about the assessment criteria as you make your selections. In the blog entry for this part of the assignment, link to your two poems by title. Bring hard copies of these poems to class on Tuesday and Thursday.