BOOK REVIEWS

For examples of book reviews for your own bookshelf book review project, check out this review of Aimee Bender's book and this review of Junot Diaz's book.

Presentation Dates

WEDNESDAY – 12/5

Baizhan

Melissa

Mark

Guled

Luisa

Jefly

Ikenna

MONDAY 12/10

Hassan

Cheyenne

Mike

Muhammad

Raymond Lamothe

Raymond Leiva

Aileen

Leo

Tsiane

WEDNESDAY 12/12

Jennifer

Juliana

Lovely

Tony

Jean Paul

Sotheary

Hicham

Resources for Poetry Presentations

The close reading slideshow can be found here. You can also consult this handout on writing about poetry.
 

If you want to make a Power Point of your own, this is a great set of instructions.

The following sites are great places to look for bios of poets and/or recordings of their work:

poets.org
poemhunter.com
biography.com
poetryarchive.org

Homework for Wednesday

Read Ch. 8 & 9. Write a paragraph explaining the use of literal and figurative language in your assigned poem.

IMPORTANT!

BE SURE TO CHECK YOUR BHCC EMAIL FOR AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT TOMORROW'S CLASS!

Son of a Citation Machine

Use this link to create your citation:

http://citationmachine.net/index2.php?reqstyleid=1&mode=form&rsid=3&reqsrcid=MLAChapter&more=yes&nameCnt=1&source_title=Anthology%20or%20Compilation%20(including%20textbook)

Using Quotes. Paraphrases and Summary in a Literary Analysis Paper

You can review the handout we looked at in class here:
http://www.gmc.edu/students/arc/documents/Literary%20analysis.pdf

You can also find a list of signal phrases here:
http://www.plattsburgh.edu/files/2/files/Signal%20Phrases.pdf