e-journal #8 (3/22)

Respond to the first two Consideration Prompts listed on p.890.

SP#2 Rubric

Here you can find a link to the SP#2 Rubric. Please email me with any questions that you may have regarding this second assignment! It is due on Thursday 3/24.

Bring three copies of Paper Two to class on the 24th.


Remember that your Revision of Paper One is due next Thursday as well. Be sure that you include the original copy underneath the new, revised edition of your work otherwise you will not receive any credit.

e-journal #7 (3/17)

Respond to the fourth Consideration Prompt after this play, which states: Scholar Thomas Kilroy has noted that Maurya “finds a freedom in isolation” and that she separates herself from the family and the community, showing “a contempt for the values that are left behind” (Mosaic, Spring 1971). Do you agree with this comment? What evidence can you offer to either support or refute Kilroy’s view of Maurya?

Poetry Warm-up

Here's a warm-up for Tuesday...

Remember Margaret Atwood's poem "you fit into me"? Look on page 59 in the textbook, or here it is again transcribed:

you fit into me
like a hook into an eye

a fish hook
an open eye

I enjoyed our discussion of this piece, especially when we tried reading it backward! I mentioned another poem which accomplishes the same pitches in tone, style, structure, and imagery. Thus,