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Essay #1 is designed to help you demonstrate the tools you worked with in Module 2 on poetry and song.
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Learning Objectives
In completing this essay, you should
be able to approach any text by interpreting and evaluating a work of literature
be able to recognize and discuss the basic elements or devices in a poem or song as a reader-response.
be able to structure and organize an essay based on making inferences to argue your point.
Instructions
Choose one of the assigned prompts listed below.
Choose one of the Casebook assigned poems or songs to explore and interpret through a Reader-Response Lens.
What Should You Submit? Three Items.
Your completed essay
A rationale for choosing the prompt and poem/song (name the prompt) and what you learned about the poet, songwriter, or singer.
An explanation of what you learned about writing on the differences between experiencing, interpreting, and evaluating
See the chart below for a full description of essay requirements.
(Test your ideas under brainstorming. Get clarification. Ask for feedback! You can always return to Brainstorming at any time to test or exchange ideas.)
THIS IS THE PROMT
You explored the elements and devices in the poem. In analyzing the elements and devices, how did your own experiences and observations about the subject matter or themes in the poem influence how you gave the elements and devices meaning? Focus on you as much as on the poem.
The poem I picked from the casebook files was Langston Hughes I, Too.
I am a women in sports so I related to this but always trying to get the approval of men in my Latino community that girls can too also play and belong in athletics I was always shunned and felt unwanted you can make up your own story and bend it to how you like that connects my experience being a women to Langston being a black man at a time where itvwas not fully accepted to even me being a young women raised in an sexist culture where I was not accepted.
