Pet Peeve Speeches; Spoon River Readings

We will complete our pet peeve speeches today. After this, we'll each choose a poem/character from Spoon River and read the poem out loud to the class in an appropriate tone as an internal monologue.

Then for pages 15-30, please gather in groups of 4 and read and analyze the poems on these pages. As a group, what do you notice about the poems you are reading? How does the poet Edgar Lee Masters:

• Create authentic VOICE in the poems? Examine TONE & DICTION.
• How are these poems typical poems; how are they different or unusual from the normal form of poetry we expect?
• Use literary elements such as metaphor, simile, alliteration, assonance, personification, allusion, or imagery?

If we have time, we'll head off to the computer lab for our next project.

HOMEWORK: Read Spoon River: pages 30-126 for MONDAY, Dec. 14.