Thursday, October 30, 2008

Poetry, Short Story

For Tuesday, all you need to do is finish your short stories. I will bring in copies of your reading assignment to go over in class, as we will be starting our short survey of poetic forms! 

So get your iambic pentameter on, and be ready to scan some poetry on Tuesday!

To recap today's lecture:
-Discovered the plot of the Aeneid.
-Background for why Virgil was writing.
-Background for why Dryden was translating
-Dryden's poetic form, iambic pentameter, and strong word choice.

By the way, you can take a lesson from Dryden's skill in choosing clear, forceful words as you write your stories! Just ask yourself, "What would Dryden do?" :D 

Looking forward to reading your final creative projects! See you on Tuesday!

6 comments:

Lauren Kittrell said...

OH BOY!!!

alicia.zanoni said...

hey joanna..do we still have to have them double spaced?

Unknown said...

Yes, double spaced gives me lots of room to write all sorts of red marks between the lines. :D

Unknown said...

Hey joanna are you goin to post the asignment. I got the basic gist of it just want some details to make sure I know exactly what to do.

Unknown said...

going*

Unknown said...

Marissa my prediction was correct.