Well, today was a bit of hitting the reset button. After discussing the Macbeth tests, we went over Say-Show-Mean in class to catch you up from last Friday. I had you turn in whatever you wrote over the weekend. You'll be completing a fully written Say-Show-Mean this week, polishing it over the weekend and turning it in on Monday.
For tonight, the homework is light (hope you went to An Evening with the Experts at school tonight!): read all of the poems in the packet and pick the one that you want to talk about. Be ready to give the poet and title immediately when you get to class. We'll discuss what we can in class, and then you'll have a work day to start your writing. We'll go through the same process as today, asking the central questions for each portion:
SAY: Who is the speaker? Where is he/she speaking? To whom? About what? With what overall attitude?
SHOW: How is the poet trying to get the reader to think/feel particular things? (Remember, the same skills you use to parse out the hidden meanings in the words uttered to you by your secret crush are pretty much the same kind of skills you bring to bear on the study of literature, once again proving that much of life can be expressed by means of analogy to eighth grade social dramas.)
MEAN: So what? Why does the poet want us to feel this way? How does that help us better understand history, ourselves, or the reason we're on the planet?
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