Book Projects, Poetry and a quiz!

Please come in and take the quiz if you were absent--  We took it on Wednesday in fifth period and Friday in eighth period--it involves reading a short story and a poem and writing about them in ways that show that you understand about plot structure and what sensory imagery can do for a poem.

We spent time in the computer lab on our book projects in period eight, and period five started the assignment for Monday:
Poetic Techniques in Practice:
Read this poem-- copy it down, line for line so as to become familiar with its structure-- the line breaks, the quote at the beginning, the sound devices, etc.
Read the prose poem on the second page for context about political poetry and El Salvador in particular. notice: powerful word choice
Notate evidence of the vocabulary words at the bottom of the first poem on your own copy (print it out) of this poem:
Submersible
Vocab words: enjambment, epigraph, lines, stanza, alliteration, onomatopoeia.

Dealing with Drafts and Comma Splices!

We have been working on eliminating comma splices from our writing and revising and editing drafts this week. Below are the documents you will need to complete assignments you may have missed or neglected to turn in:
Comma Splice Lesson
Comma Splice Worksheet
First Things Story (some of you have not turned this in or need to re-do it).

CHOOSE ONE of these to revise, edit, type up and hand in by Friday, April 8th:
1- Ekphrastic Fantastic story or poem: see former posts for details.
2- Flash Fiction Story: Read the three samples provided in class (ask the teacher for a copy) and write your own short, short story (750 words or less) that begins with the same opening line as one of these stories AND has a major theme behind the details of the character, plot, and setting of your story.
Examples: the "Pumpkins" story is REALLY about something other than an accident, the "Teh Stones" story is not REALLY about rocks, at all, and "The One Sitting There" is not REALLY a story about cleaning out a refrigerator-- you get the point. Make sure your original story has a point!

Lots of stories this week!

We finished writing the Villanelle poem we started before break and handed it in. Please hand it in by Monday, April 4th, if you have not already.
we began a short story OR another poem based on a work of art: Here is a link to the packet we used-- the instructions come AFTER the examples.
Ekphrastic Writing Packet

We also read some short, short stories (Flash Fiction!) in class and started a draft or our own flash fiction based on the opening lines of one of the stories (your choice) Please get those to read from the teacher as they are from a copyrighted book and I can't put them up on this site.

See you Monday!
Mrs. E