Slow Reading "The Century Quilt": September 3, 2019

Focus: What complex meanings does the speaker attribute to the Century Quilt?

1. Warming up with three good things

2. Starting our slow-down with a whiteboard brainstorming of the poem's title

3. Indulging in individual MMM readings and partner explorations of the extended metaphor

4. Composing thesis statements and brief outlines

HW:
1. For Wednesday and Thursday: Bring your laptop to class for college essay drafting and revising.

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!