Freshmen: Today we focused on the best way to begin a free verse poem, which is, to summarize the words of the Greek poet Horace, "in the middle of things." In other words, start you poetry inside an experience, as Stafford does in "Traveling Through the Dark." Your homework is to revise your current poem for this principle, and to craft a new poem based on the three principles of free verse we have learned so far. Both poems should be typed up and with you in class on Tuesday. You are also to read for 20 minutes twice over the three day weekend.
Sophomores: Today we looked at a couple of essays on This I Believe that tie in well with Life of Pi. Your task over the weekend is to finish Part I and to have a dozen notes for seminar on Wednesday. Keep working on your This I Believe assignment, and get a jump on vocab too if you can.
CNF: Today we had an interesting seminar on the first chapter of Blink. I enjoyed the ideas you brought to the class and learned a lot. Good work. Email me a photo of your bedroom if you haven't already. Next time in class we will test our powers of thin slicing using these photographs.
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