The Final Timed Writing: April 18, 2018

Focus: How can writing help us analyze and synthesize poetry?

1. Warming up with ideas about how to synthesize two poems

Organize by idea, not by poem. In other words, both poems should be in each body paragraph.

Structure Ideas:

• One body paragraph on a significant similarity, and one body paragraph on a significant contrast
• One body paragraph comparing/contrasting the speakers in each poem, and one body paragraph comparing/contrasting the imagery, metaphors, etc. 
• One body paragraph on the "problem" established each poem, and one body paragraph on the "solution" (or lack thereof) in each poem.

Other Reminders:

• Use your intro to set up the poems' dramatic situations.
• Use literary language in your close readings (imagery, metaphor, symbol, alliteration, anaphora, etc).
• Use active voice, and have fun with your verbs!

2. Composing your final timed writing (and it's a two-for-one!)

HW:
1. Continue drafting your culminating essay. You have a little over one week left, and there will not be time to revise. Make your final draft a true final draft, and one that you're proud of.

Final draft due Thursday, April 26 by 3:00 pm.

2. Thursday will be our final Thursday workshop. Friday will be a fast & furious recap of Shakespeare's Hamlet.