If you did not complete your "Plight of Ellen" paragraph corrections during class today, please submit them tomorrow stapled to your corrected paragraph.
Period 3: That is all the homework.
Period 4: You need to complete a practice write of a prose poem similar to the one I read you in class where the poet thought of a line and then each subsequent line added to something mentioned in the previous line. Write about 100 words, more if you can. Use some of the strategies from today's lesson:
Sound devices: dissonance and alliteration
Being specific: "Red like the lips of Barbies she bandaged as a girl . . ."
Being unique: "pressed against plastic / chest, listening, lub-dub,
For example,
And so it's Tuesday and I sit in my office chair at the back of the house wondering about offices and when we decided we needed them in homes that used to house grandparents and babies and puppies and kittens like the one on my lap purring not knowing why humans have to think about chairs and offices and houses and . . .
The technique is stream of consciousness. Attempt to get into the mind of the character but also keep the reader in mind by referring back to objects or people or animals etc.
Try it. Come to class ready to share what happened and to read your practice-write to a partner.
