Hi Class,

Please post your drafts of your explication to this CATEGORY: EXPLICATION DRAFTS.

After you post, then answer these PEER REVIEW questions in a COMMENT right under the essay you have been assigned to review. PLEASE DON’T BEGIN TO PEER REVIEW UNTIL I HAVE GONE OVER THE DIRECTIONS ON MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY (APRIL 13 AND 15).

DIRECTIONS: First copy and paste these questions in a COMMENT under the essay to which you have been assigned. Second, answer each question as completely and helpfully as possible. NEW: Make sure to review a draft that has less than two reviews. If it has two reviews, then select another one.

Please note: I will GRADE your peer review. If you answer all six questions in a caring, supportive manner, you will get all ten points (homework).

QUESTIONS:

1–Is the title of the poem and full author’s name provided in the first or second sentence? Be specific if something is missing.

2–Does the student provide the two lines he or she will explicate?

3–What poetry terms does the student examine?

4–Copy and paste your two favorite sentences from the students essay. Then explain why you like them. (example: not only is this an example of the college sentence, this sentence highlights an important poetry term (metaphor) in a very clear way–I get it completely)

5–Copy and paste two sentences that are confusing. Then explain what is confusing about them. (example: you may have mixed up the terms alliteration and assonance, please check to make sure you have the right term for repeated vowel sounds)

6–Make two concrete suggestions. (example: expand the range of connotations rather than name one connotation; example: instead of using the verb “like” three time in the first paragraph, consider different varying the idea by using “love” or “can relate to”; example: when you revise this, change the lower case “i” to “I”–Prof. Scanlan will definitely say something about that.)