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Answer the following in Open-Ended Response format (answer, support, halt!) in your spiral (in whatever section makes the most sense to you). In his "I Have a Dream" speech, what does Dr. King

want his audience to do as a result of listening? Support your answer with evidence from the text.

Discuss answers.

Questions About Yesterday’s Assignment

Do you have any?

Assignment Overview: Poem and Collage

Write your own or create a “found” poemCompose a collage to accompany your poemCollage will focus on:

Color Line Shape

Color

Warm colors: red, yellow, orange: sun, fire, speed

Cool colors: blue, green: water, grass, sky, comfort

Viewers associate things in their daily lives with the colors chosen.Green: grass, leaves; Red: warmth, fire

Example: If an alien were colored green, he would be perceived differently than if he were colored red.

Color

Get a sheet of paper and divide it into fourths.

As you listen to the following poems, in one quadrant of your paper, find colors that represent the mood of the pieces.

Langston Hughes

“A Dream Deferred”

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore--

And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

“Refugee in America”

There are words like FreedomSweet and wonderful to say.

On my heart-strings freedom sings 

All day everyday. 

There are words like LibertyThat almost make me cry. If you had known what I

knew You would know why. 

Key Questions for Color

Answer these two questions in your notes: What colors would you choose to represent what

you’ve read in Dr. King’s speech and one or both of the Hughes’ poems?

Why is that color a good choice?Keep these notes handy. You will need them

when you start “writing” your collage.

Shape

Curved forms: living (organic), comfortable; trigger emotions

Geometric forms: perfection or the ideal; trigger the mind

Angular forms: remind us of sharp, painful things

Shape

In another quadrant of your paper, find shapes that represent the mood of the pieces.

Langston Hughes

“A Dream Deferred”

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore--

And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

“Refugee in America”

There are words like FreedomSweet and wonderful to say.

On my heart-strings freedom sings 

All day everyday. 

There are words like LibertyThat almost make me cry. If you had known what I

knew You would know why. 

Key Questions for Shape

What shapes would you choose to represent the feelings you experienced as I read this scene?

Why is that shape a good choice?

Line

“a dot making its way through space”

Longer in length than breadth

Long, short, wavy, zigzag, fat, thin, swirling, diagonal, series of dots

Horizontal and vertical: static

Diagonal: create movement and energy

Zigzags: forceful and dynamic

Line

Curved: gentle, graceful, full of life; natural

Thick: bold, daring, heavy

Thin: delicate, well-mannered

Vague: more dynamic

Langston Hughes

“A Dream Deferred”

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore--

And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

“Refugee in America”

There are words like FreedomSweet and wonderful to say.

On my heart-strings freedom sings 

All day everyday. 

There are words like LibertyThat almost make me cry. If you had known what I

knew You would know why. 

Line

In another quadrant of your paper, find lines that represent the feelings you experienced while reading the pieces.

Key Questions for Line

Looking at your quadrant, why is that type of line a good choice?

Assignment Part I: Write a Poem

Write your own poem or create a “found” poem in response to Dr. King’s speech and one (or both) of the Hughes poems.

Found poetry: Choose lines from other texts that have meaning or

are particularly descriptive (texts:“I Have a Dream,” “A Dream Deferred,” “Freedom”) Can be single words, phrases, or whole sentences

Piece them together to form a poem expressing your feelings on the subject they share

Assignment Part II:Write Your Collage

Visualize the lines and shapes in the words, and think about what color those lines might be. Envision your collage (rough draft). Build your collage (second draft). Revise your collage (final draft).

Write your rationale on the back or in a separate document. Explain your choices in terms of color, shape, and line.

You may use construction paper/art supplies or glogster (must be printed in color).

Due Friday