HW for Friday

Final draft of Reacting to Poetry Essay due in class.

Make sure your essay is typed in proper MLA format: double spaced, inch-wide margins, 11-12 point font, standard font style (such as Times new Roman).

Make sure your essay has an *original title* meant to both introduce your essay and to entice your readers.
In Class:

Students write a note regarding how they have revised their essays since Monday and/or how the plan to revise their essays.

Students trade papers with classmates and read each other's work.

Briefly discuss, then "diagram" Dillard's living like weasels. *Students may choose to structure their final draft essay in imitation of Dillard*

Dillard Diagram
(by paragraph)
1. "A weasel is wild" Information about weasels, weasel legends
2. anecdote of weasel and eagle
INFORMATION ABOUT WEASELS


3, 4, 5, 6, 7. describes Hollins Pond and how she came to visit there, and that she saw a weasel.
SCENE SETTING

8, 9. Weasel! Dillard sees the weasel. She describes the specific scene.
10. "Our look was as if two lovers..."
11. The weasel disappears
12. Dillard claims she and the weasel traded brains
13. more wondering about the weasel's brain in contrast to her own
THE WEASEL ENCOUNTER, CONTRASTING HERSELF WITH THE WEASEL

14. I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
TRANSITION TO MEDITATING ON 'HOW TO LIVE'

15. The idea to Go Wild
16. "We can live anyway we want." The idea to "stalk your calling."
MEDITATING FURTHER ON THE NOTION OF INFINITE CHOICE

17. The idea to "grasp your one necessity and not let go." "as high as *eagles*"
CONCLUSION: THE IDEA TO YIELD RATHER THAN TO FIGHT