homework for Thursday September 10 2009

1. Poetry: Please write about TWO poems, both about grief over the death of a loved one: "On My First Son" (p. 602) and "The Vacuum" (p. 603). Your observations can either be about an individual poem OR about both poems. Do the "important words" part for each poem. Write only one "discussion" part for both poems, not one for each.

Remember: you don't have to write about the important words (although there's no penalty for doing so), you just have to list them.

2. Write at least one claim about "Rare Bird" based on your chart.

3. If you didn't do your summer reading or only did part of it, please email me a realistic schedule you intend to follow to get it (the rest) done. For example, "I'm going to read x stories per weekend.") Keep in mind that the last two stories are quite a bit longer than the preceding ones.