--Yesterday it became clear to me that my students hadn't done the reading for my English 102 class--and half of them weren't even in class. We had talked about the main characters in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," and gotten the plot into motion. I decided to do a daily writing and have the students write a paragraph about how they think the story will end or how they would end the story if they were writing it. It was an interesting experiment.
--I have wondered about having a version of this exercise as an option for Essay 2. Write an alternate ending to one of the stories we've read, compare it to the ending that the author gives us, and write a comparison and analysis of your work and the author's work and what was learned by writing an alternate ending.
--I have also thought about doing this as a poem writing exercise: here's the first stanza--let's see what you create.
--We did a poetry-heavy week in my American Lit class this week. I feel like I didn't do a great job with Robert Frost. I also don't really care. But I also feel strange about not caring. I read the poems and found it hard to explain why so many people thought of his as one of the most skilled poets of his time. I do feel I should be able to do that at least--a note for next time.
--My own poetry writing has slowed a bit, but that's not surprising to me. I did write a poem this week about a pastor in a parish in the mountains, a pastor thinking about Oscar Romero as she prepares the communion elements.
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