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learning targets

homework

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what we're doing today

1. Sign up for Spaces
2. Finish (in chunks) "You Mean You Don't Weep at the Nail Salon?"
3. Start emojetry

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Basically it's the new Seesaw

1. Scan this code
2. Select "United States"
3. Type in your school email address
4. Click "Sign Up With Google"

On Your Phone

If you don't have a phone, use your computer to check your school email for an invite link.

Basically it's the new Seesaw

1. Scan this code
2. Select "United States"
3. Type in your school email address
4. Click "Sign Up With Google"

On Your Phone

If you don't have a phone, use your computer to check your school email for an invite link.

Set your paper up to look like this.

Each slide has 1-3 lines of the poem.

For each slide, list what it makes you think about:

• The speaker
• The conflict
• Any emotions in the poem

"You Mean You Don't Weep at the Nail Salon?"

by Elizabeth Acevedo

it’s the being alone, i think, the emails but not voices.

dominicans be funny, the way we love to touch — every greeting a cheek kiss, a shoulder clap, a loud.

it gots to be my period, the bloating, the insurance commercial where the husband comes home after being deployed, the last of the gouda gone, the rejection letter, the acceptance letter, the empty inbox.

the empty inbox.

a dream, these days. to work at home is a privilege, i remind myself.

spend the whole fucking day flirting with screens. window, tv, computer, phone:

eyes & eyes & eyes.

the keys clicking, the ding of the microwave, the broadway soundtrack i share wine with in the evenings.

these are the answers, you feel me?

& the impetus. the why. of when the manicurist holds my hand, making my nails a lilliputian abstract,

(the thing that makes something happen)

(super tiny piece of art)

i close my fingers around hers, disrupting the polish,

i close my fingers around hers, disrupting the polish, too tight i know then, too tight to hold a stranger,

but she squeezes back & doesn’t let go

(The end.)

but she squeezes back & doesn’t let go & so finally i can.

You will be given a set of 6 random emojis. You will use those emojis as the basis for a poem.

We will be sharing these poems and making inferences about the speaker, conflict, emotions, and visceral experience we see in each of our poems.

1. Get your emojis
    
2. Write your poem
    
3. Give me a description of:
   • The speaker
   • The conflict
   • The emotions

Your job now is to find a song or poem with words you connect with viscerally.

Heads up: We may be sharing these.