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--- documentary_poetry [2020/06/04 17:04] – add reading 76.23.135.43
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 The poems record grief, lives, and honor voices of those who can no longer speaka nd often could not speak when alive.
+===== Qualities of Documentary Poetry =====
+  * Creative process connected withand inspired by primary sources
+  * Poet’s intention is to represent tone/voice in primary sources authentically
+  * Creative works integrate primary sources, sometimes responding to documents unseen by the reader, other times arrangingexcerpts from primary sourcesto create something new, or integrating source excerptswith original poetry
+  * Purpose is to bear witness/raise awareness/incite social change, reflecting the role of poet as engaged citizen, journalist, historian, witness, and advocate
+source: [[http://www.poetryriver.org/uploads/2/5/5/4/25542640/str14_docpoetry.pdf|http://www.poetryriver.org/uploads/2/5/5/4/25542640/str14_docpoetry.pdf]]
 ===== Mentor Texts =====
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 Trethewey, Natasha. [[https://vimeo.com/6362681|“Believer.” Congregation]].
+source: Heidi Renée Aijala
 ===== Reading Documentary Poetry =====
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     * Have students look for elements of gender, power, and tone?
     * Interrogate how Tretheway treats beauty. How does this treatment affect structure? word choice?
+    *
+===== Writing Documentary Poetry =====
+[[http://www.poetryriver.org/uploads/2/5/5/4/25542640/str14_docupoetry_slides_pr.pdf|Side Show]]
+  * Choose an historical event OR
+  * Choose an historical photo or different source
+  * Research the Event
+  * Brainstorm words, phrases or feelings from the source
+  * You can make a graphic organizer like a tchart and one side write what you want to describe and on the left write a stanza.
+  * Optionally incorporate direct quotes
+===== Student Examples ======
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