The Echo Sonnet: October 21, 2019

Focus: How can we understand poetry through high velocity writing?

1. Warming up with three good things

2. Writing about "The Echo Sonnet" (Q1)

HW:
1. Before you go to bed tonight: E-mail me your sonnet essay thesis and any outlining you have completed.

• Click HERE for the overview of the sonnet essay.
• Click HERE for the sample sonnet essay.

2. For TUESDAY, Oct 22: Read Chapters 27 through 34 and prepare your next reading ticket. If you average about 11 pages today, you'll easily finish this assignment.

3. Friday, Oct 25 will be a drafting day. In lieu of having a Socratic seminar on Chapters 35-38, you will have a short written reflection that will take the first 10 minutes of class.

4. For MONDAY, Oct 28: Complete rough draft of sonnet essay. We will peer edit this day.

You will have a window for submitting your final draft: Oct 30-Nov 4 by 4:00 pm. They will be graded in the order that they are turned in.