Thursday Workshop: October 24, 209

Focus: How do we strengthen our poetry timed writing skills?

1. Warming up with the caesura

2. Reading "The Echo Sonnet" aloud with two readers; discussing how to read the poem

• What is an echo?
• What role does the caesura play?
• Why is "To an Empty Page" important to the poem?

3. Understanding the poetic devices; discussing how to write about the poem

• Which poetic devices (literary terms) seemed important or interesting to you?
• Where did you get stuck?

4. Exploring sample released essays together as a class and the AP readers' comments; leaving comments on each other's timed writings

HW:
1. Friday, Oct 25 will be a drafting day and/or a reading day. Chapters 35-38 will be added to the Socratic on Tuesday (along with Chapters 39 and 40). We will return to the normal reading ticket schedule on Tuesday.

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

3. For TUESDAY, Oct 29: Read Chapters 35 through 40 and prepare your Socratic ticket (we'll be back on the regular ticket schedule for the last two weeks of East of Eden).

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.