Rita Dove

About the Oriental Ballerina:


www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV16g979jRM

Read aloud and discuss "Mandolin". Respond and analyze  one of the poems in a comment posted here for credit.

Rita Dove and Billy Collins at the White House:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi33BQRtIKo&feature=related 

Rita Dove, introduced by Barack Obama:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi33BQRtIKo&feature=related

2nd period:
Begin planning and outlining your poetry cycle.  Discuss with Ms. Gamzon

HMWK: Finish Mandolin section for Tuesday

Period 2--Begin work on Poetry Cycle --Due Tues. Nov. 13

Check out Rita Dove videos:

www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21787

www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21327

www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20412

The First Book
Rita Dove

Open it.

Go ahead, it won't bite.
Well...maybe a little

More a nip, like.  A tingle.
It's pleasurable, really.

You see, it keeps on opening.
You may fall in.

Sure, it's hard to get started;
remember learning to use

knife and fork?  Dig in:
You'll never reach bottom.

It's not like it's the end of the world--
just the world as you think

you know it.