This week you will complete two posts as usual. One post should focus on your outside reading and include your outside reading times. As always, I want to see two strong, developed paragraphs that keep the focus on your ideas about the book rather than on the plot. All posts should be edited for conventions and sentence structure.
For the second post, you will analyze a poem. Choose one from the "Poems of Childhood" section of the poetry packet (pp. 7-18). Follow one of the close-reading approaches discussed in class to read and annotate the poem (count this time toward your outside reading). Your analysis should identify the major techniques being used, how those techniques are used, and what effects they have in the poem. How do these techniques contribute to your overall interpretation of the poem? Your post should be at least two developed paragraphs in length but may be longer. This post will be worth 15 points and graded for quality.
Needless to say, the ideas you present here must be your own. Do not look up your poem on the internet. Do not harvest ideas from someone else and repeat them. I know this is a first attempt.
If you'd like to see a model of this kind of analysis (a bit longer than what I'm asking you to do), here's one from just yesterday on a poem by Adrienne Rich, who died this week. You can count reading it toward outside reading as well.
It may help you to type the poem (carefully) into your blog post. If you do, don't count it as a paragraph.
A Reminder About Comments:
Comments should be on posts from your class. Everyone's posts should be commented on, which means that if you see that a post already has a comment (other than from me), you should move on and read a different post to comment on. I don't want to see one free post with 5 comments on it and blogs that haven't seen a comment in weeks. You will only get credit for the first comment on a post.
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