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Oral Interpretation: How do I Cut and Splice Poetry?

Oral Interpretation: How do I Cut and Splice Poetry?. To Live I sit in my crunched-in restraining desk, they call it, with my paper and my pen And I am Supposed to see The blackboard Around the tall boy And my mind on my Text and my pen on The page. But my head

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Oral Interpretation: How do I Cut and Splice Poetry?

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  1. Oral Interpretation: How do I Cut and Splice Poetry?

  2. To Live I sit in my crunched-in restraining desk, they call it, with my paper and my pen And I am Supposed to see The blackboard Around the tall boy And my mind on my Text and my pen on The page. But my head Won’t translate This language Log base b of a squared Carbon monoxide Reacting with phosphorus. I don’t react. I see through the paper And my pen writes Poetic equations My mind plus my life Equals Something beyond this. Doodles litter my Notebook like snowflakes Dancing through the trees Beyond the window. The lined paper Lines with soul Forgetting cosines Life without phosphorus And my life Beyond desk chairs And the dull mutated halls JV and Varsity Setting the curve School Play and GPA Textbooks Learning without Knowing Without room To know myself To be myself Trial and error Minus lab write-up Feelings without A thesis Learning youth Learning how to live Without a textbook Without a teacher to Correct grammar To live to learn myself To live to know myself To live to be somebody who’s learned how to live. Miriam, age 18 Locate literature you LOVE Things I Have to Tell You Secrets Do you know my secret, Did I tell you it last night, Were you listening in my dreams, Were you hiding out of sight? Do you look to find my secret, Reading letters, reading notes, Picking up sometimes on phone calls, Opening books to see what I wrote? • Do you really want to know my secret, • Will it answer all your questions • Take away your mass of worries? • Or maybe, you could ask for my suggestions. • Do you ever think to ask me about my secret, • Being honest and forthright, • With no lies or hidden feelings? • Only then will my secret come to light. • Jessica, age 16

  3. My Name Date Block Structure Map 1. “Things I have to Tell You: Secrets,” by Jessica age 16 2. “Things I have to Tell You: To Live,” by Miriam age 18

  4. To Live I sit in my crunched-in restraining desk, they call it, with my paper and my pen And I am Supposed to see The blackboard Around the tall boy And my mind on my Text and my pen on The page. But my head Won’t translate This language Log base b of a squared Carbon monoxide Reacting with phosphorus. I don’t react. I see through the paper And my pen writes Poetic equations My mind plus my life Equals Something beyond this. Doodles litter my Notebook like snowflakes Dancing through the trees Beyond the window. The lined paper Lines with soul Forgetting cosines Life without phosphorus And my life Beyond desk chairs And the dull mutated halls JV and Varsity Setting the curve School Play and GPA Textbooks Learning without Knowing Without room To know myself To be myself Trial and error Minus lab write-up Feelings without A thesis Learning youth Learning how to live Without a textbook Without a teacher to Correct grammar To live to learn myself To live to know myself To live to be somebody who’s learned how to live. Miriam, age 18 Step 1: Identify the Climax Secrets Do you know my secret, Did I tell you it last night, Were you listening in my dreams, Were you hiding out of sight? Do you look to find my secret, Reading letters, reading notes, Picking up sometimes on phone calls, Opening books to see what I wrote? • Do you really want to know my secret, • Will it answer all your questions • Take away your mass of worries? • Or maybe, you could ask for my suggestions. • Do you ever think to ask me about my secret, • Being honest and forthright, • With no lies or hidden feelings? • Only then will my secret come to light. • Jessica, age 16

  5. To Live I sit in my crunched-in restraining desk, they call it, with my paper and my pen And I am Supposed to see The blackboard Around the tall boy And my mind on my Text and my pen on The page. But my head Won’t translate This language Log base b of a squared Carbon monoxide Reacting with phosphorus. I don’t react. I see through the paper And my pen writes Poetic equations My mind plus my life Equals Something beyond this. Doodles litter my Notebook like snowflakes Dancing through the trees Beyond the window. The lined paper Lines with soul Forgetting cosines Life without phosphorus And my life Beyond desk chairs And the dull mutated halls JV and Varsity Setting the curve School Play and GPA Textbooks Learning without Knowing Without room To know myself To be myself Trial and error Minus lab write-up Feelings without A thesis Learning youth Learning how to live Without a textbook Without a teacher to Correct grammar To live to learn myself To live to know myself To live to be somebody who’s learned how to live. Miriam, age 18 Step 1: Identify the Climax Secrets Do you know my secret, Did I tell you it last night, Were you listening in my dreams, Were you hiding out of sight? Do you look to find my secret, Reading letters, reading notes, Picking up sometimes on phone calls, Opening books to see what I wrote? • Do you really want to know my secret, • Will it answer all your questions • Take away your mass of worries? • Or maybe, you could ask for my suggestions. • Do you ever think to ask me about my secret, • Being honest and forthright, • With no lies or hidden feelings? • Only then will my secret come to light. • Jessica, age 16

  6. My Name Date Block Structure Map 1. “Things I have to Tell You: Secrets,” by Jessica age 16 2. “Things I have to Tell You: To Live,” by Miriam age 18

  7. To Live I sit in my crunched-in restraining desk, they call it, with my paper and my pen And I am Supposed to see The blackboard Around the tall boy And my mind on my Text and my pen on The page. But my head Won’t translate This language Log base b of a squared Carbon monoxide Reacting with phosphorus. I don’t react. I see through the paper And my pen writes Poetic equations My mind plus my life Equals Something beyond this. Doodles litter my Notebook like snowflakes Dancing through the trees Beyond the window. The lined paper Lines with soul Forgetting cosines Life without phosphorus And my life Beyond desk chairs And the dull mutated halls JV and Varsity Setting the curve School Play and GPA Textbooks Learning without Knowing Without room To know myself To be myself Trial and error Minus lab write-up Feelings without A thesis Learning youth Learning how to live Without a textbook Without a teacher to Correct grammar To live to learn myself To live to know myself To live to be somebody who’s learned how to live. Miriam, age 18 Step 2-3: Identify Contributing Storylines and Essential Circumstances Secrets Do you know my secret, Did I tell you it last night, Were you listening in my dreams, Were you hiding out of sight? Do you look to find my secret, Reading letters, reading notes, Picking up sometimes on phone calls, Opening books to see what I wrote? • Do you really want to know my secret, • Will it answer all your questions • Take away your mass of worries? • Or maybe, you could ask for my suggestions. • Do you ever think to ask me about my secret, • Being honest and forthright, • With no lies or hidden feelings? • Only then will my secret come to light. • Jessica, age 16

  8. My Name Date Block Structure Map 1. “Things I have to Tell You: Secrets,” by Jessica age 16 2. “Things I have to Tell You: To Live,” by Miriam age 18

  9. To Live I sit in my crunched-in restraining desk, they call it, with my paper and my pen And I am Supposed to see The blackboard Around the tall boy And my mind on my Text and my pen on The page. But my head Won’t translate This language Log base b of a squared Carbon monoxide Reacting with phosphorus. I don’t react. I see through the paper And my pen writes Poetic equations My mind plus my life Equals Something beyond this. Doodles litter my Notebook like snowflakes Dancing through the trees Beyond the window. The lined paper Lines with soul Forgetting cosines Life without phosphorus And my life Beyond desk chairs And the dull mutated halls JV and Varsity Setting the curve School Play and GPA Textbooks Learning without Knowing Without room To know myself To be myself Trial and error Minus lab write-up Feelings without A thesis Learning youth Learning how to live Without a textbook Without a teacher to Correct grammar To live to learn myself To live to know myself To live to be somebody who’s learned how to live. Miriam, age 18 Step 4-5: Consider Character Development and Humor/Drama Balance These two thoughts balance each other. One could be delivered with humor, while the other is more serious. Secrets Do you know my secret, Did I tell you it last night, Were you listening in my dreams, Were you hiding out of sight? Do you look to find my secret, Reading letters, reading notes, Picking up sometimes on phone calls, Opening books to see what I wrote? This could be funny or serious, depending on tone of voice and physicality • Do you really want to know my secret, • Will it answer all your questions • Take away your mass of worries? • Or maybe, you could ask for my suggestions. • Do you ever think to ask me about my secret, • Being honest and forthright, • With no lies or hidden feelings? • Only then will my secret come to light. • Jessica, age 16

  10. My Name Date Block Structure Map 1. “Things I have to Tell You: Secrets,” by Jessica age 16 2. “Things I have to Tell You: To Live,” by Miriam age 18

  11. To Live I sit in my crunched-in restraining desk, they call it, with my paper and my pen And I am Supposed to see The blackboard Around the tall boy And my mind on my Text and my pen on The page. But my head Won’t translate This language Log base b of a squared Carbon monoxide Reacting with phosphorus. I don’t react. I see through the paper And my pen writes Poetic equations My mind plus my life Equals Something beyond this. Doodles litter my Notebook like snowflakes Dancing through the trees Beyond the window. The lined paper Lines with soul Forgetting cosines Life without phosphorus And my life Beyond desk chairs And the dull mutated halls JV and Varsity Setting the curve School Play and GPA Textbooks Learning without Knowing Without room To know myself To be myself Trial and error Minus lab write-up Feelings without A thesis Learning youth Learning how to live Without a textbook Without a teacher to Correct grammar To live to learn myself To live to know myself To live to be somebody who’s learned how to live. Miriam, age 18 Step 6: Cut and Substitute for Language and Content Secrets Do you know my secret, Did I tell you it last night, Were you listening in my dreams, Were you hiding out of sight? Do you look to find my secret, Reading letters, reading notes, Picking up sometimes on phone calls, Opening books to see what I wrote? No Issues with Language or Content Completely School Appropriate • Do you really want to know my secret, • Will it answer all your questions • Take away your mass of worries? • Or maybe, you could ask for my suggestions. • Do you ever think to ask me about my secret, • Being honest and forthright, • With no lies or hidden feelings? • Only then will my secret come to light. • Jessica, age 16

  12. To Live I sit in my crunched-in restraining desk, they call it, with my paper and my pen And I am Supposed to see The blackboard Around the tall boy And my mind on my Text and my pen on The page. But my head Won’t translate This language Log base b of a squared Carbon monoxide Reacting with phosphorus. I don’t react. I see through the paper And my pen writes Poetic equations My mind plus my life Equals Something beyond this. Doodles litter my Notebook like snowflakes Dancing through the trees Beyond the window. Transition from section to section The lined paper Lines with soul Forgetting cosines Life without phosphorus And my life Beyond desk chairs Andthe dull mutated halls JV and Varsity Setting the curve School Play and GPA Textbooks Learning without Knowing Without room To know myself To be myself Trial and error Minus lab write-up Feelings without A thesis Learning youth Learning how to live Without a textbook Without a teacher to Correct grammar To live to learn myself To live to know myself To live to be somebody who’s learned how to live. Miriam, age 18 Step 6-8: Transitional Material, Arrangement and TIME Secrets Do you know my secret, Did I tell you it last night, Were you listening in my dreams, Were you hiding out of sight? Do you look to find my secret, Reading letters, reading notes, Picking up sometimes on phone calls, Opening books to see what I wrote? Cut for time • Do you really want to know my secret, • Will it answer all your questions • Take away your mass of worries? • Or maybe, you could ask for my suggestions. Added for Emphasis: Or maybe, Maybe, MAYBE, you could ask for my suggestions • Do you ever think to ask me about my secret, • Being honest and forthright, • With no lies or hidden feelings? • Only then will my secret come to light. • Jessica, age 16

  13. Transitional • To Live • I sit in my • crunched-in • restraining desk, • they call it, The lined paper Lines with soul Forgetting cosines Life without phosphorus And my life Beyond desk chairs And Textbooks Learning without Knowing Without room To know myself To be myself Trial and error Minus lab write-up Feelings without A thesis Learning youth Learning how to live Without a textbook Without a teacher to Correct grammar To live to learn myself To live to know myself To live to be somebody who’s learned how to live. Miriam, age 18 Putting it All Together: Splicing multiple selections A with my paper and my pen And I am Supposed to see The blackboard Around the tall boy And my mind on my Text and my pen on The page. But my head Won’t translate This language Log base b of a squared Carbon monoxide Reacting with phosphorus. I don’t react. I see through the paper And my pen writes Poetic equations My mind plus my life Equals Something beyond this. Doodles litter my Notebook like snowflakes Dancing through the trees Beyond the window. Secrets Do you know my secret, Did I tell you it last night, Were you listening in my dreams, Were you hiding out of sight? Do you look to find my secret, Reading letters, reading notes, Picking up sometimes on phone calls, Opening books to see what I wrote? 1 B 2 • Do you really want to know my secret, • Will it answer all your questions • Take away your mass of worries? • Or maybe, you could ask for my suggestions. • Do you ever think to ask me about my secret, • Being honest and forthright, • With no lies or hidden feelings? • Only then will my secret come to light. • Jessica, age 16 3 C

  14. B Oral Interpretation But my head Won’t translate This language Log base b of a squared Carbon monoxide Reacting with phosphorus. I don’t react. I see through the paper And my pen writes Poetic equations My mind plus my life Equals Something beyond this. • Do you ever think to ask me about my secret, • Being honest and forthright, • With no lies or hidden feelings? • Only then will my secret come to light. • Jessica, age 16 3 • To Live • I sit in my • crunched-in • restraining desk, • they call it, • I sit in my • crunched-in • restraining desk, • they call it, • with my paper • and my pen • And I am • Supposed to see • The blackboard • Around the tall boy • And my mind on my • Text and my pen on • The page. A Transitional Learning without Knowing Without room To know myself To be myself Trial and error Minus lab write-up Feelings without A thesis Learning youth Learning how to live Without a textbook Without a teacher to Correct grammar To live to learn myself To live to know myself To live to be somebody who’s learned how to live. D • Do you really want to know my secret, • Will it answer all your questions • Take away your mass of worries? • Or maybe, Maybe, MAYBE— • you could ask for my suggestions. 2 Do you know my secret, Did I tell you it last night, Were you listening in my dreams, Were you hiding out of sight? Do you look to find my secret, Reading letters, reading notes, Picking up sometimes on phone calls, Opening books to see what I wrote? 1 • I sit in my • crunched-in • restraining desk, • they call it, Transitional • Doodles litter my • Notebook like snowflakes • Dancing through the trees • Beyond the window. • The lined paper • Lines with soul • Forgetting cosines • Life without phosphorus • And my life • Beyond desk chairs C • I sit in my • crunched-in • restraining desk, • they call it, Transitional

  15. Performance Script: “Things I have to Tell You” By: Various Authors • Do you really want to know my secret, Will it answer all your questions, Take away your mass of worries? Or maybe, Maybe, MAYBE— • you could ask for my suggestions. • I sit in my crunched-in restraining desk, they call it, and Doodles litter my Notebook like snowflakes • Dancing through the trees Beyond the window. • The lined paper--Lines with soul • Forgetting cosines--Life without phosphorus— • And my life Beyond desk chairs • Do you ever think to ask me about my secret, • Being honest and forthright, • With no lies or hidden feelings? • Only then will my secret come to light. • I sit in my crunched-in restraining desk, • they call it, • Learning without Knowing • Without room --To know myself--To be myself • Trial and error --Minus lab write-up • Feelings without--A thesis • Learning youth. • Learning how to live Without a textbook • Without a teacher to Correct grammar • To live to learn myself • To live to know myself • To live to be somebody who’s learned how --to live. • I sit in my crunched-in restraining desk, • they call it, with my paper and my pen • And I am Supposed to see • The blackboard Around the tall boy • And my mind on my Text and my pen on The page. • Do you know my secret, Did I tell you it last night, • Were you listening in my dreams, • Were you hiding out of sight? • Do you look to find my secret, Reading letters, reading notes, Picking up sometimes on phone calls, • Opening books to see what I wrote? • I sit in my crunched-in restraining desk, • they call it, But my head • Won’t translate This language • Log base b of a squared Carbon monoxide • Reacting with phosphorus. • I don’t react. • I see through the paper And my pen writes • Poetic equations • My mind plus my life Equals • Something beyond this.

  16. Oral Interpretation: How do I Cut and Splice Poetry?

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