Margaret Atwood: Wilderness Tips & Poetry

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Today, we will continue reading the short story "Wilderness Tips".

Margaret Atwood's Poetry:
Image result for sewing terms hook and eye

You Fit Into Me...
You fit into me
like a hook into an eye 
a fish hook
an open eye
Poetry Prompt:  Please read Andrew Varnon's poem: "Be My Sherpa", Then, write your own love (or anti-love) poem as your post assignment on your blog.

You might find it helpful for your brainstorming to:
  • List objects, ideas, associative words on a page
  • Find random words in a dictionary or thesaurus and write them down (the more random the better)
  • Find a random article from the internet and select a variety of words and include them on your list
  • Listen to snippets of conversation and select random words from what you hear and write them down
Then use a stem prompt like:
  • Be my...
  • I love you like...
  • You're my...
  • You're not my...
  • Don't be my...
Use any time left in class today to continue writing your Atwood style story (or complete your poem draft, or complete homework. See below.)

HOMEWORK: Complete Wilderness Tips (last story: "Hack Wednesday"). Continue writing your Atwood short story draft. 

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Andrew Varnon said…
Did you get any interesting poems out of that prompt?
June 13, 2019 at 12:09 AM
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