Respond to each of the following in a well-considered post in your blog. Limit your selection of detail to a separate poem for each response.

1. Explain how image and symbol reinforce theme in a poem.
2. Explain how facts about a writer's life are relevant to your understanding of a poem.
3. Explain how a poem can reflect a poet's personal psychology.
4. Explain how your own experiences affect your interpretation of a poem.

For those in the midst, or looking ahead at finals in my LA classes(9, 10-1, 20-1, 20-2, 30-1, 30-2). Consider the outcomes we've tried to achieve. Enhancing the artistry of communication has been a strong technical focus. Skills mastered include using online blogging tools, Word Processing, Spreadsheets, even graphical enhancements using Photoshop or audio/video podcasting tools have been included where time permitted and initiative taken.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living. - Plato

Write a story in which a protagonist undergoes a transformation in the search for self.

This exercise is simple: write a poem about a family member meeting a famous person.

1. Use pencil crayons to draw a picture of your mother's kitchen.
2. Put the oven in it, and also something green, and something dead.
3. Write a poem about your mother's kitchen.
4. You are not in this poem, but some female relation - aunt, sister, close friend - must walk into the kitchen during the course of the poem.
5. Completed poems, with a suitable image(72 dpi, png, light

Have a look at this powerpoint file here.

Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to: 1. Explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences

• discover possibilities
  • form tentative understandings, interpretations, and positions
  • experiment with language, image, and structure

• extend awareness
  • consider new perspectives
  • express preferences, and expand interests
  • set personal goals for language growth

2.

Flickr changed how you access your images in early September. So I've updated the plugin. You'll need to have an "API Key" and a "Shared Secret", now. It is a good idea to put images on Flickr instead, or in addition to, stj servers. Flickr badges are cool, too. Do not activate the Flickr plugin if you don't have a Flickr account. You lose the ability to browse your blog's upload folder while Flickr plugin is active, I still don't know the fix. Look here, see if you can find a fix, too.

Click the images. Before iBox After iBox Want to know how? Start a thread in the forum, "How to iBox?". When three STJ bloggers post, let me know and I'll join in with the secret.

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