7 billion, the scale of the universe, and poetry begins.

1) Compositions!? 

2) How many people were on this Earth in the 1960?
1990?
October 31st, 2012?


http://www.google.ca/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=sp_pop_totl&tdim=true&dl=en&hl=en&q=world+population

3) Our Universe, our information, our lives are expanding.... you live in an exponential world.

http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white 

4) Why am I telling you this before we start poetry?
Think - Share with a Partner - Write on the Board

5) The Brick - browse - tell me what you see...

6) Review - Questions to Ask of a Poem and from last year: Tell all the Truth...

7) p. _____, Truth, by Gwendolyn Brooks