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-Halloween "Raven Simpsons"

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-Turn in Edwards homework
-presentations

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-Use the following words in a writing prompt: wishbone, hollow, owl, blush, and playground

Share a few lines of what you wrote or are writing in your letter to Edwards regarding his sermon.

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-Edwards homework due tomorrow

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-Listen to "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" 107-111
-Answer 1-3, 6, page 112
-Write a letter to Edwards

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Homework: Please read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," on pages 104-111. Write a one page letter to Jonathan Edwards in response to his sermon. Due Thursday.

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-Read the play "Hole in my Life"

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-Slaughterhouse-Five presentations
If you are absent from class, please make sure you see the presenter to get hand-outs. You will be assessed on all books.

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-Symbolic representation of "Harrison Bergeron" (Last time to work on it in class)

Book Review Example

New Zealand writer Helen Rickerby’s second book, My Iron Spine, is poignant, witty, tender, fun, and moving.

Rickerby has organized the book into three sections. The first section, Flashes of déjà vu, is compiled mostly of autobiographical pieces. A charming voice waltzes through the narrative, saying things like, I was playing hungry / hungry hippos / when my grandmother died or I wonder / if the Kingdom of Heaven / is like the Titanic- / not enough lifeboats.

A striking poem in this section is Eleven Fragments of God. Rickerby poetically meanders through questions, stories, and dialogue, pertaining not only to metaphysics, but also to personal grief. Corsets and comforts titles the second section of My Iron Spine. The poet writes in the persona of several women, including Artemisia Gentileschi, Mary Shelley, and Sylvia Plath.

In the third and final section, Laughing at Ophelia, the poet invents a world where she imaginatively spends time with an array of historical women. Check out a few of the titles: Burning with Joan of Arc, Swimming Lessons with Virginia Woolf, Housework with Linda and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Kate Sheppard and I go for a Ride. In the final poem, Rickerby hangs out with New Zealand born writer Katherine Mansfield. The poem, titled Partying with Katherine Mansfield starts out ‘Don’t be a bore,” says Katie / as she pulls me up by my arm / to the dance floor.

At times My Iron Spine is akin to Anne Carson’s The Glass Essay. Rickerby seamlessly layers her work with research, autobiography, and imagination. What more could a reader want from a book of poetry? Rickerby is a poet who celebrates women and their lives. Most of all, she celebrates their voices.

My Iron Spine is available at Amazon.com.