The Myth of Music: February 6, 2018

Focus: How can a slow-down help us speed up in our poetry analysis?

1. Warming up a cold reading / group metacognitive:

• Whiteboard title brainstorming
• Circle the Wagon reading for moments
• Back to the whiteboard for movements

2. Composing the structure of a timed writing:

• Introduction PARAGRAPH with thesis (let your argument drive your structure, not your literary devices)
• Topic sentences
• One really, really good close reading

3. Editing for style: Recap redundancy and teach active voice (also, would any of your new vocabulary words work well here?)


HW:
1. For Wednesday: Keep looking over Academic Vocabulary: Set 4 (and Sets 1-3).

2. For Thursday: Decide on your paper/project poem and bring it to class (electronically or hard copy). It must be from a different time period than your first semester poem. You will spend all of Thursday performing a metacognitive on it.

3. For Friday: FINISH INVISIBLE MAN FOR YOUR FINAL SOCRATIC SEMINAR! YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS IT!