Shaping Your Lens: September 4, 2019

Focus: What is the difference between scene and reflection, and how do you balance these in a college essay?

1. Warming up with an MMM approach to "A Wider Lens"

2. Discussing the essay's craft moves, scene, and reflection

3. Drafting your own college essays with attention to craft moves, scene, and reflection

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 Thursday: Bring your laptop to class for college essay drafting and revising.

3. 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!