TAL "Reality Check" Blog

After watching an episode of "This American Life", in which four different people hatch plans that inevitably snap them back into the real world, you should be able to empathize with one of them. Please share an experience that checked you back into the realm of reality. Entries should be at least 10 sentences, and please write them descriptively and with sound grammar. Due by the beginning of class on Thursday, 2/24. Thank you!

MJ Stanza Post

Using your creative writing--in other words, your Word Bank--from class, you should be able to construct a short, one-stanza, free verse poem about anything you want. These are the only requirements:

1. The poem must be a minimum of 10 lines.

2. The poem must have a minimum of 5 words per line.

3. Read Major Jackson's poems for inspiration, and follow his advice by ending each line with a noun or a verb, rather than with a conjunction (FANBOYS) or an article (a, an, the).

Leave your initials after your entry. Thank you!

You are Jamaica Kincaid

Give advice to a younger sibling, friend, or peer in the tone of Kincaid's "Girl." Entries should be at least 10 sentences. Please leave your initials at the end of your entry. Thank you!