**UPDATED Blog Assignment**
For this class, you will be required to create a blog using a platform such as Wordpress, Blogger, or Weebly. Posts should be 300-500 words long and should include a brief attempt at close-reading one or more of the poems for the week.. You must complete ten blog posts throughout the course of the semester, and they are due by NOON on the days that you are submitting them for class.
Your blog entries will consist of 3 parts:
1.) A quote of a passage or lines from a poem which you liked.
2.) An explanation of why those lines appealed to you
3.) A critical analysis of those lines, how they function within the larger poem, and how they contribute to your interpretation of the poem.
This blog-method borrows from the tradition of the “commonplace book,” a popular way of preserving and enjoying poetry in early modern England. People would keep a book, and as they read or heard poetry, they would record lines and passages they particularly liked or identified with in the book in order to remember them (since they might not have permanent access to any given poem). This is your chance to make your blog something of a “commonplace book” in order to engage individual responses to poetic works, WITH the addition of a critical analysis of those lines and how they work within the poem. I will still be putting prompts up on the class blog to guide your analysis, but also as potential paper considerations.
Any blogs previously written will be counted for their points, but blogs from this point on should follow this model. Please do not utilize any outside sources into your blogs until we cover using secondary sources in class. These should be your own thoughts and ideas about the poem. Additionally, make sure you post your 5 annotation analyses. These MAY be done on days you are blogging about a poem.
Please feel free to peruse each other's blogs and comment on them, too! The blogs are linked below.
Barzan
Thiessalyn
Archita
Clearie
Dana
Ana
Nick
Tyffany
Hannah
Jeff
Miriam
Taylor
For this class, you will be required to create a blog using a platform such as Wordpress, Blogger, or Weebly. Posts should be 300-500 words long and should include a brief attempt at close-reading one or more of the poems for the week.. You must complete ten blog posts throughout the course of the semester, and they are due by NOON on the days that you are submitting them for class.
Your blog entries will consist of 3 parts:
1.) A quote of a passage or lines from a poem which you liked.
2.) An explanation of why those lines appealed to you
3.) A critical analysis of those lines, how they function within the larger poem, and how they contribute to your interpretation of the poem.
This blog-method borrows from the tradition of the “commonplace book,” a popular way of preserving and enjoying poetry in early modern England. People would keep a book, and as they read or heard poetry, they would record lines and passages they particularly liked or identified with in the book in order to remember them (since they might not have permanent access to any given poem). This is your chance to make your blog something of a “commonplace book” in order to engage individual responses to poetic works, WITH the addition of a critical analysis of those lines and how they work within the poem. I will still be putting prompts up on the class blog to guide your analysis, but also as potential paper considerations.
Any blogs previously written will be counted for their points, but blogs from this point on should follow this model. Please do not utilize any outside sources into your blogs until we cover using secondary sources in class. These should be your own thoughts and ideas about the poem. Additionally, make sure you post your 5 annotation analyses. These MAY be done on days you are blogging about a poem.
Please feel free to peruse each other's blogs and comment on them, too! The blogs are linked below.
Barzan
Thiessalyn
Archita
Clearie
Dana
Ana
Nick
Tyffany
Hannah
Jeff
Miriam
Taylor