MAKING PROGRESS

In one full paragraph (try to write at least 6 to 8 sentences) describe all that you accomplished in the library these past three classes, what you feel you need to do better, and what you need help with.  Due before the end of class.

I AM MOST THANKFUL FOR....

The secret life...revealed.

You are Rosaleen. Write a note to your friend in Monroe and tell her a little bit about what you've been doing lately.  Remember to assume the character's voice.  (Due:  THURSDAY, November 11, 2010, 10 a.m.)

The fog rose around the old mansion....

There is something howling, and a creaking door.  The air is damp and chills the bone.  All of these sensory details set the scene for a scary experience in literature.  Below, write the first three paragraphs of a story. Be sure to send the message that this will be a scary one, by offering sensory details that will make it clear that this is going to be bloody.

Journals #63-65

#63: Identify your favorite restaurant and explain in detail why you like it.  Or do the same for your least favorite restaurant.


#64 is a free write.


#65: Many poems are simple descriptions, or images, of ordinary things, or moments. Find inspiration in this room or building, locker, home… anywhere, and write a short poem using descriptive language. Here is an example of an imagist section of a poem:
I walk along a street, returning
at midnight from my unit. Meet a man
leaning against an illumined wall
and ask him for a light.
His open eyes
stay fixed on mine. And cold rain falling
trickles down his nose, his chin.
"Buddy," I begin...and look more closely--
and flee in horror from the corpse's grin.

JOURNALS 57-62

Here are your journal assignments 57-62

57:  Free write.

58:  Ten things I do (or don't do) when I'm depressed. 

59:  Comin' Thro the Rye -- what does it mean?
Comin Thro' The Rye



O, Jenny's a' weet, poor body,
Jenny's seldom dry:
She draigl't a' her petticoatie,
Comin thro' the rye!
Comin thro' the rye, poor body,
Comin thro' the rye,
She draigl't a' her petticoatie,
Comin thro' the rye!


Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro' the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body,
Need a body cry?
Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro' the glen,
Gin a body kiss a body,
Need the warl' ken?
Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro' the grain;
Gin a body kiss a body,
The thing's a body's ain.

60:  Attempt to analyze this Emily Dickinson poem. What may be her message?

The Body grows without—

The more convenient way—
That if the Spirit—like to hide
Its Temple stands, alway,
Ajar—secure—inviting—
It never did betray
The Soul that asked its shelter
In solemn honesty

61:  If you were to re-title The Cather in the Rye what would you name it and why?

62:  Describe a smell that reminds you of childhood.  Explain why.

Journal #56 -- Who are you?

Read the poems. Explain the message in each. What do they have in common? How are they different? Write your own version of one of these poems, attempting to answer the question:  Who are you?




But someday


But someday, somebody'll


stand up and talk about me


and write about me


black and beautiful


and sing about me


and put on plays about me!


I reckon it'll be


me myself!


Yes, it'll be me.


-Langston Hughes





I'm Nobody


I'm nobody! Who are you?


Are you nobody, too?


Then there's a pair of us - don't tell!


They'd banish us, you know.






How dreary to be somebody!


How public like a frog


To tell your name the livelong day


To an admiring bog!


-Emily Dickinson