due Thursday 1/27

http://www.mt.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/ecs/invasive/technotes/InvasiveTN_16/index.html

Read or re-read "The Behavior of Hawkweeds," the first story in Ship Fever. It can be found at http://books.google.com.

due Friday: read "love poem," p. 597, and "The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter, p. 599, and write about it.

3 important words from each poem, with a sentence or two as to why you think it's important; then a paragraph in which you continue to explore. Don't feel constrained. Don't judge the worth of the poems.

An "A" level response:

paragraphs will have a sense of beginning, middle, and end

a sense that you are discovering things as you go along (thinking while writing)

sentences have few unnecessary words or are otherwise artful

you make reference to at least one of these things:

diction (word choice)

syntax (word order)

sound (rhyme, rhythm, other)