Hi Everyone,

As I said in class, feel free to take creative liberty with the Keats poetry imitation exercise (for anyone who was not present today-here it is). Re-write the poem in your own words if you want or do the mad-libs thing and just replace certain words in the poem with words that make the poem “yours.” The idea is to try to write about an important reading/art/life experience through the vehicle of Keats’s poem. Do your best, which I am sure will be great!

Also, here is the Ellison Reading and  the Tan Reading. Read each one carefully, and as you read, imagine how you might write a similar kind of short narrative about your own personal identity. Did you learn any tricks from these authors? For example, Ralph Ellison uses the second person voice. Is that something you might do? Be prepared to discuss both essays on Tuesday.

Oh yeah, and have a great Labor Day!