Writing about the Century Quilt: February 26, 2019

Focus: How do we write about metaphysical conceits?

1. Warming up a one-minute brainstorming on the title, "The Century Quilt"

2. Reading the poem aloud together with an MMM approach: Mark up the poem for...

• Words, phrases, punctuation, and devices that make you pause and take a MOMENT.

• Larger patterns, shifts, and actions that form MOVEMENTS.

• Themes and tone that emerge to creating MULTIPLE MEANINGS.

3. With a partner, please accomplish the following:

• Identify the vehicle, tenor, and meaning of this poem's metaphysical conceit.

• Mark up the prompt and compose a thesis statement in response to it.

• Compose topic sentences.

• Outline your body paragraphs (but no need to write them) with the quotations you would use and bullet points on how you would read them closely.

HW:
THIS FRIDAY:

• Acquire your British Book Club novel and bring it to class.

• Complete and submit your project proposal or your essay thesis (and any outlining you've done). You can also conference with me instead of e-mailing or handing papers in.