Due Tuesday, February 26
1. Complete the Nickel and Dimed reading and questions. If you are absent today (Friday), you are still responsible for turning in this assignment on Tuesday. Since the reading is long (37 pages), you may want to check Nickel and Dimed (by Barbara Ehrenreich) out of a library, copy the selection from a classmate, or buy the book.
Due Wednesday, February 27
1. Type three new snapshot poems (one about a family member, one about Leila, and one about another member of the LREI community) and turn them in with handwritten annotations that explain why you broke each line when you did. To refresh your memory, click here to see the line break activity we did together in class. Each poem should paint a picture using words!
o n g o i n g h o m e w o r k
1. Keep meeting with your sustainability organizations and posting on the blog: your hours to the log section and reflection to the journal section. Aim to meet once per week, and remember to gather photos and other materials to use on the April 30 Day of Learning. Click here for updated contact info. Click here for detailed directions about how to post. Any work you do related to sustainability counts, whether or not it is in your assigned sustainability project group!
DO NOT FORGET TO TITLE YOUR ENTRIES CORRECTLY (date of work, name of organization) AND TO SPELL-CHECK BEFORE YOU POST!
2. Soon I will be collecting your “poetry portfolio,” which will count as a project grade. Gather all the poems you have written since we started the poetry unit so that you can choose the best of the best to turn in. Locate the following:
a. On Turning ___
b. “so much depends” poems based on Williams’s poem
c. odes to everyday things
d. garbage poems (garbage, diamond in the rough, unbeautiful)
e. word poems
f. snapshot poems
g. perspective poems based on Gary Soto’s “Oranges”