If you were absent today, ask for the author presentation handout and for the model literary response handout. Two key pieces of information for a successful year in Writing 12.
Arrive with your first three author choices and your partner's name tomorrow.
Writing: Tonight, write a poem which focuses on adding specific detail. Move away from expectations in a given situation. Push for detail, ie, don't rest on half a description, take it to the limit, as they say. Mix up the senses. We looked at an example from Robin Daniels' poem, "Through a Paramedic's Eyes" which is in The Claremont Review, number 19.
Red like the lips of Barbies,
the ones she bandaged as a girl,
ear preseed against plastic
breaast, listening, lub-dub,
lub-dub, lub-dub.
We spoke about attending to language, rhythm and sound.
We practiced creating similes and I read a poem by two American poets, James Wright and Jack Gilbert. Look them up www.poetryfoundation.org
James Wright describes the pony's ears as delicate as the skin on the inside of a girl's wrist.
Now, that's poetry!!!
