Poetry assignments (long-term)

For Friday, Feb. 7, you're to compose a 10-line piece in iambic pentameter. Tell a story, paraphrase a book, review a film, write a poem—just have fun with it.

For the end of the month, you're to—as described in class—find a poem you connect with. You're to then write a 2-3 page paper that, first, analyses the poem using the techniques we're discussing in class and then, second, explain what drew you to the poem and how you respond to it now that you've written about it analytically.

Assignments

For Friday, you're to read "A Good Man is Hard to Find" . . . which you'll find in Backpack Lit.

[UPDATE: To clarify: The entire Equus assignment should be about three pages.]

Eck! Eck! Eck! There's also a writing assignment! (cue sounds of stomping and ululating)

Typed, double-spaced, for Jan. 22:

1. Consider the opening monologue/soliloquy by Dysart; unpack what he says in terms of the themes, ideas, and motifs that will later surface in the play. 

2. What is your view of what the play calls “the normal”? I want to hear a personal response.

PS: HA HA!!