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Syllabus
Please review and print the syllabus for the course which is available here. You will need to turn in a piece of paper with your signature and your parent's signature that acknowledges your agreement to the course's policies.
Homework:
Write an analysis of the following poem. I know this probably seems impossible to you, which is okay because this is a pretest!
In your analysis, you may wish to consider such things as structure, diction, figurative language, and imagery. DO NOT CONSULT ONLINE RESOURCES! Please submit your assignment online through Turnitin.com. If you are unable to get your Turnitin to work, bring me a paper copy as a backup and we will need to problem solve your Turnitin issues since we will be using that frequently in our class.
This assignment is graded on completion, so please don't worry and just show me what you can do. This entire assignment (thinking and writing) should take 40 minutes. Set a timer, and stop where you are when that time has elapsed, even if it is in the middle of a sentence. I really just want to see what you can do in 40 minutes.
Design
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all*, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth --
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth --
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.
What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?--
If design govern in a thing so small.
* heal-all: a flower that is normally blue
Robert Frost
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