Today we did a bell ringer (of course!). We then discussed how puny your vocabulary sentences are! We practiced writing a sentence with substance, then you added to your own sentences. YEA for Gina and Alex who did not have to add because all of their sentences had at least twelve words. But, keep in mind that our sentence on the board contained 25 words...and it was fun to write it! We then read and began discussing the poem "Home Burial." Finally, here is a list of poems that may be used for your essay. They are all from the POL website. I will add more later...
"As Children Know" by Jimmy Santiago Baca
"Birches" by Robert Frost
"Childhood's Retreat" by Robert Duncan
"Conversation" by Ai
"Domestic Violence" by Eavan Boland
"Father" by Edgar Albert Guest
"I am learning to abandon the world" by Linda Patan
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Mrs. Stallman,
ReplyDeleteI think I have a theme, but we didn't really discuss it in class. I was going to do "Conrad's suicidal actions could have been done differently, as to prevent the gloomy events foretold in the novel (divorce, etc.)" and I was going to compare it to "The Road Not Taken" by Frost. Whould that theme "work"??
Also, could the poem ALSO apply to some loss of innocence theme in either of the two novels?
I'm sorry for all of these questions; this assignment is REALLY stressing me out!
-Greg
Oops! Never mind, I am going to use "Childhoods Retreat"! It works better!
ReplyDelete