Spring Poems Week: Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Spring"

This week, poems of spring.  Today, Millay, here.

Exercise #3 Teenreads.  You have the option of either writing a book review or a poem/book trailer.  Let's figure out just what our book reviews should look like.  Visit Teenreads and browse their reviews.  Read at least three, but more if you like, and then compose a brief observational blog post, titled "Exercise #3" and labeled "exercise," that discusses what you think the elements of a book review need to be.  What do the three or so reviews that you read have in common?  What seem to be the parts of these reviews? 

Your post only needs to list the three reviews you read and then number at least three "elements," or "requirements" of what you think a review needs to have.  Due today.

Exercise 2: Analysis Scavenger Hunt

For today, you and your peers were to compose a brief analytical response to one of our excerpts.  Chances are good that many of these responses exhibit a turn of phrase that counts as one of the "common weaknesses" that frequently appear in rough draft writing.

For Exercise #2, scan the blogs of your peers, from any of our three classes, and try to find at least three of these so-called "common errors." When you find one, simply copy the weak sentence into a blog post and identify the number of the error it is an example of, like so:

          (1) He uses words like “If I must die, O let us nobly die.”

Please don't identify the blog where you found your examples; no need to call people out.

In addition, quickly name and link to the blog post of the best, most authoritative credible response that you come across in your browsing.  Oh, and why not leave a comment or two on the blogs you find that do a nice job?  People will like hearing from you.

Please title this post "Exercise 2" and label it "Exercise."

Exercise 1

For Tuesday, select any any of the other three passages from our initial collection and compose a single paragraph of analysis of its language.  Use the language and structure we have practiced in class, incorporating at least three partial quotations.

Due by the beginning of school on Tuesday.  Please title the post "Exercise 1" and label it as "Exercise."