poems

Now that you have collected your thoughts along with those of the critics, the next step is to organize the materials in preparation for writing. Before determining which pattern of organization you use, you must give careful thought to the essay's specific purpose. In other words, before you can select and arrange the specific details, you must know what main idea you are trying to get across to your reader. A a check to see if your understanding of the essay's purpose is clear, try stating the main thoughts in a single sentence.

Given: I have a variety of online etexts of classic short stories. Each story is linked to a discussion forum of the author. I have a Short Story Study Guide template. I figure this template will suffice for a multi-threaded response from a blog.

This exercise is simple: write a poem about a family member meeting a famous person.

1. Use pencil crayons to draw a picture of your mother's kitchen.
2. Put the oven in it, and also something green, and something dead.
3. Write a poem about your mother's kitchen.
4. You are not in this poem, but some female relation - aunt, sister, close friend - must walk into the kitchen during the course of the poem.
5. Completed poems, with a suitable image(72 dpi, png, light