Today in class you read for 15 minutes. You then took out your blue sheets with the literary devices defined. We finished the hard work of articulating why/how similes and metaphors are different. It is so much more than taking away the like or as--it boils down to the fact that a metaphor is stronger because all the qualities of one object are transferred to the other object of the comparison--remember our discussion of Juliet is like the sun versus Juliet is the sun.
We then read Question by May Swenson. The first read through we just tried to get a sense of what the poem was about and the rhythm of the poem. The second time through we started to identify possible metaphors, words that needed to be defined, associations we had with words, lines we struggled with etc... We then read a third time with different eyes and new meanings started to appear everywhere!
HW: Go to Monday's post and find a poem from your class' anthology and print it out (just the poem you have chosen not the whole anthology) or open your reader's notebook to take notes in your reflection section (if this is your option, include title and author of the work).
Now perform 2 reads of the poem. I will know this work is done because I will see all sorts of thoughts written on the paper about what words/lines might mean. Also you should mark any and all metaphors and similes you see.
Also read/log/post it-logs due Monday
