Thursday, September 5, 2019

Figuratively Speaking: September 5, 2019

Focus: How can you use figurative language to both liberate and structure your writing?

1. Warming up "Salvador, Late or Early" and an MMM reading

2. Experimenting with surprising figurative language in your writing: Trying out an abstract-to-concrete writing drill

3. Returning to drafting and conferencing on your college essays

HW:
1. Ongoing: Continue drafting your college essay and coming in to conference with me. 
  • Essays are due September 16 by 4:00 pm.
2. For Friday: 
  • Reread Chapters 13-20 in The Odyssey to prepare for our one Socratic seminar next week.
  • Prepare a ticket by trying out the following exercise in character empathy: Rewrite one scene from the first-person perspective of a minor character (not Odysseus or Telemachus). You can handwrite or type and print, and it should be about a page.
  • Compose your next poetry response. Instead of a packet, I'd like you to use this website: https://poets.org/poem-a-day and select one of the current or past poems-of-the-day. We're going contemporary!


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