2017 Is ECHOING...Echoing...echoing: January 9, 2018

Focus: How does poetic form contribute meaning?  In other words, how is order brought to chaos?

1. Warming up with three good things and a little Greek mythology: The Myth of Echo (read from Book III of Ovid's Metamorphoses)

• What did you learn about the nature of an echo?

2. Discussing "An Echo Sonnet: To an Empty Page" as a class

a. What important information can you garner from the poem's title?

b. Read through the poem with the echo and without the echo (as though it were a traditional sonnet). How would you characterize the Voice? How would you characterize the Echo?

c. Where did you section the poem? How did you figure it out? What's each section about?

d. Think of the poetic devices we've studied so far (imagery, diction, extended metaphor, alliteration, assonance, euphony, cacophony, rhyme, shift words, punctuation, syntax, point of view, enjambment...); which ones play an important role in this poem?  What did they unlock for you?

3. Exploring the rubric and two sample essays to reflect on your own writing

4. Perusing this semester's course syllabus and upcoming items; distributing Invisible Man

5. Enjoying a little freewriting on the book's title:

• What does it mean to be invisible?
• In our society, who's invisible? Who's visible?
• In what ways is invisibility be empowering?
• In what ways is invisibility disempowering?
• How visible are you?
• Why is important to be talking about (in)visibility right now, in 2018?

HW:
1. Return your signed class syllabus by Thursday, January 11.

2. Strongly consider purchasing your own copy of Ellison's Invisible Man.

3. Read the Prologue and Chapter 1 of Invisible Man by Friday; prepare your first reading ticket for Friday's Socratic.

• Overview of Socratic expectations and grading method
• Reading ticket possibilities