TUESDAY

• POETRY STUDY
• "The Author to Her Book" by Anne Bradstreet

• Discussion: 
• Most significant literary devices and their effects
• Characterization of the speaker
• Tone
• Symbol
• Controlling metaphor

• Assignment: Think about how you would answer this essay prompt and write a thesis statement on your copy of the poem that responds to it 
• PROMPT: Read carefully the following poem by the colonial American poet, Anne Bradstreet. Then write a well-organized essay in which you discuss how the poem’s controlling metaphor expresses the complex attitude of the speaker.
• Review and annotate these two sample essays that respond to the prompt and identify strengths and weaknesses in each.
• Turn in your annotated poem and your notes on the sample essays.


• HW due Thurs. 11/21/19: Read and complete a 1-2-3 analysis of "Sestina" by Elizabeth Bishop. After 1-2-3, focus also on how the poem uses:
• repetition
• pronoun/antecedent
• shift
• contrast