Author Archives: james mason

Cross Genre – Sonnet

For this assignment, I wanted to make the connection between poetry and music. As poetry is in itself a performative act, I wanted to communicate some of the emotion of the poem in musical form. Sonnets naturally lend themselves to … Continue reading

Posted in Assignment 3 Cross-Genre Translation | Leave a comment

Scaffolding a Poetry Response – James and Victor

Victor did a great job of walking the group through the basic process of scanning and analysing a poem. This graphic organizer is intended to help students identify and visually represent some of the different features and literary elements of … Continue reading

Posted in Assignment 2: Content-Area Text Trade | Leave a comment