Students will write a 100-150 word  proposal as to why they want to use the genre  to answer the question “How do short stories and poems connect us?” What in the genre and short stories and poems have you found that can connect people together? Is it the theme? Commonalities? Experiences? Fears? Hopes? Perspectives? Humor? Interests?

Students will think about what they might want to write about if they were a poet or author of a short story writing to connect people together.  Look at their poems and short stories they have picked out. Establish what qualities they have that connect us together. These are not specific examples. They are just qualities. Quality means a distinctive attribute or characteristic possessed by someone or something. You can even look at the characters and write down their specific qualities. 

For example a quality might be:

Love

Fears

Danger

Create a list of those qualities- students will create a running notes page on their chromebook 

Idea Quota: (pg. 1 in incubation)

Using the ideas that you came up with when exploring the poems and short stories you will try and come up with as many ideas as possible to answer the driving question: 

“How do poems and short stories connect us?”

Based on the genre groups came up with as many ideas as possible to answer that question.

Incubation & Solutions Slides- This is a more in-depth walkthrough of what we did in class.

Final Presentations were to small groups and students recorded them on Flipgrid.