Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Ordinary Things Drafts

In the lab please complete your 5 short poems with ordinary things as their subject. Choose items from the list you created from last class, or from your observations now, or from your journal.

Form and structure (line, sound, tone, diction, etc.) is up to you. Write each poem in the same file. Call these drafts ORDINARY THINGS

We will write for 20 minutes to get these 5 drafts completed before we move to our next activity.

During the second part of our class, we will be going next door to read some poetry (see post above regarding Lucille Clifton)

Your portfolios will be due Oct. 11. More information about this will be forthcoming. There will also be a unit test on poetry around that time as well. More on that later.

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This course stresses understanding the characteristics & techniques in the literary genres of fiction, poetry, and dramatic writing. This course will continue to build on students’ reading and writing skills begun in previous creative writing classes. Readings and discussions of works by major writers in the field will be examined as inspiration and models of fine writing. This educational blog is designed for the use of the students at the School of the Arts in Rochester, NY.