Those of you who are blogging for Sunday night know who you are. We discussed in class what the assignment is, and I wanted to clarify any confusion there might be. You will write a post, approximately 200-300 words in length, that offers your interpretation of one of the poems we read in Chapter 3, the handouts, or Chapter 4, based on one of the ideas we read about and discussed, namely word choice, word order, tone, denotation and connotation, dialect, or, in our reading for Wednesday, images. You can use the example on pp 76-77 or the one on pp 120-121 in our text book as a guide, although you can choose to be less formal than these sample essays are. These examples are focused in a way that your blog post should be–using one of the concepts to discuss one or two poems. NOTE: do not use a poem we have discussed at length in class.
When you write your post, please choose any categories in the right-hand sidebar that you think are appropriate, and add tags that will help us identify your post. The categories address kinds of work we do or kinds of materials; the tags would reflect the authors or poetic forms or topics. Use the tags I have added as a guide, and feel free to choose one that someone else has already written. You can use multiple tags and categories–these will help us organize our writing.
If you want help with how to write a post, read these instructions.
Everyone who is not responsible for writing a post will write a comment of approximately 100-150 words by Wednesday at 3:00. If you want help with how to write a comment, read these instructions.
Everyone, bloggers and commenters alike, will add an entry to our glossary. If you want help with using the Docs feature, read these instructions, but remember that you don’t need to create your own document–look for the page that shows you the editing option. Each of you will edit the document to add your entry in the glossary, and click SAVE at the bottom of the screen when you’re done.
I really enjoyed the observations, insights, and interpretations you shared in our two classes so far and in your writing on the blog, and I look forward to reading what you have to say and discussing the material with you in class.
Do we still need to comment if we are writing a post?
As you’ll notice in the instructions, if you are responsible for writing a post, you don’t have to write a comment for the week as well–unless you want to!