Hand in your poem. We spent an entire period on this, so I expect to see a decent poem for you to get a decent score (10 points possible)
If you were absent, see the assignment below. If you didn't understand the assignment, just write a poem about some specific thing in nature.
Today:
1. Hand in poem. Share
2. Read Mockingbird to 178 minimum. If you're not that far, read Sparknotes for now
Summary, Chapters 12, 13
Chapters 14, 15
3.SAT Practice test, writing
- Slow down. First 8 min, do 6 problems. Last 2 min, try to do 1 more
- Use a comma after an introductory phrase (dependent clause)
- If they want to win, athletes must exercise every day.
- Because he kept barking insistently, we threw the ball for Smokey.
- A popular and well respected mayor, Bailey was the clear favorite in the campaign for governor.
Write your own nature poem today. Here's the process I'd like you to follow:
1. Either sit and look at the natural world or remember a time when you were in nature.
2. Then write a list of ten very specific things that you see.
The best way to do this is to focus on something like Mary Oliver's grasshopper and write down details. These details will not be confined to the object you are focusing on but will include your surroundings.
2. Think in terms of how you perceive it and then write five images describing that place or thing
(what you see, hear, smell, feel) Your descriptions of images might include wording similar to the following: "colorless and frail," "a watercolor painted peak," "like little devil horns"(simile) "behind hugging trees," (imagery; personification)"plastic imposter" (metaphor) "kids lightly, freely, innocently tossing the ball" "on a morning like this, even the trash is beautiful"
5.(optional: Write your thoughts concerning at least one of these things)
6. Rewrite everything, making it a poem.
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