Announcements
Bring your NHD notes and in-progress papers to class on Wednesday and Thursday! We will be working on organization, MLA citations and annotations in class.
If you were not in class today to take the quiz, you have one week to make it up! See me to set up an appointment!
Assignments
Journal
If you had to come up with a metaphor or a simile for your life, what would you compare to your life to? Why? Explain.
After the quiz, we talked about simile and metaphor in the following poems.
"Willow and Gingko"
"Caged Bird"
"Poker Face"
Read the following poem and follow the directions below it.
"Willow and Ginkgo"
by Eve Merriam
The willow is like an etching,
Fine-lined against the sky.
The ginkgo is like a crude sketch,
Hardly worthy to be signed.
The willow’s music is like a soprano,
Delicate and thin.
The ginkgo’s tune is like a chorus
With everyone joining in.
The willow is sleek as a velvet-nosed calf;
The ginkgo is leathery as an old bull.
The willow’s branches are like silken thread;
The ginkgo’s like stubby rough wool.
The willow is like a nymph with streaming hair;
Wherever it grows, there is green and gold and fair.
The willow dips to the water,
Protected and precious, like the king’s favorite daughter.
The ginkgo forces its way through gray concrete;
Like a city child, it grows up in the street.
Thrust against the metal sky,
Somehow it survives and even thrives.
My eyes feast upon the willow,
But my heart goes to the ginkgo.
DIRECTIONS
1. underline the imagery
2. focus on the animals and people that the trees are compared to
3. what surrounds each tree?
Based on the descriptions, sketch what you think each tree would look like. Why do you think each tree would look this way?
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