My daughter has to get to a doctor visit, so nothing fancy today. :-(
CW: After today's journey through some prologues and first chapters, your job is to create a piece that opens a door into a new world of the book you may never write. This is a prologue to something greater. We do not know what lies behind this door; you are writing our first glimpse of your world. Tease us into wanting more.
The first step? You need to figure out what the "novel" would be and outline it to some extent. (Otherwise you couldn't possibly write a prologue.) So that's tonight's assignment, and don't worry if you don't succeed tonight. Planning a novel takes time. But do start trying to think about it. Gather some thoughts and ideas together.
E3H: Today we discussed a couple of poems to set the stage for a poetry unit. For tomorrow, read "Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments" (both of them) on the "metapoems" page accessible from the E3H pages. Try to make meaning out of them using Billy Collins' methods.
E2CP: Today we had Reading Workshop. Tomorrow we'll be starting to discuss something new from Emerson. You can find it here. You will be reading part of the excerpted essay on Self-Reliance. Start at the paragraph beginning "These are the voices which we hear in solitude" and read through to" "the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." The usual five questions will apply. :-)
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