Due tomorrow: USSR sheets for March
Tonight: Type up two of your six poems for your anthologies
Tips: (Write like a writer)
1. Using nouns instead of adjectives:
Instead of saying hot sun, for example, you could say The San Pueblo sun
or The Sri Lankan sunrise etc Instead of loyal dog, you could say:
The pinch-hitter dog
The Colonel Smith dog
The I'll-never-leave-you mutt
The it-ain't-over-till-it's over Labrador
2. Once you find the first metaphor, build on it. For example, I am a monk. Brainstorm nouns associated with monk. Use a magazine or a flip dictionary or a reference book about monks in order to help.
For monk, you could add the following words to your poem, bald, choir, blue of prayer, robe, monastery, silk, burlap, mohair, Bible, Mt. Vernon, ten commandments
and your poem doesn't have to be about a monk. It is simply a metaphor.
Eg. On our walk our dog turns into a monk. His breath, the blue of prayer, reading a passage from the Bible at each fence post. His inky cloak soft in the morning light as if he knows more than he should. The sun is rising because it has to. My turn to walk the dog. Snow, our monastery street, this dog, me.
Don't lose the poems and paragraphs you created day as we will use them on Friday.
This week:
Wed: Reviewing the literary must-haves, paragraph style and insight. Creating our anthology covers and typing poems.
Thurs: Comprehension and paragraph writing test.
Friday: MLA Works Cited list for your 6 poems. Time to work on your anthologies. I'll also hand out the poetry manuscript (your poems) criteria sheet if we have time.
