Writing Prompt: If I could start my day in another way...

Finish Mark Twain (satire)

• Volunteers share Tall Tales from yesterday
• Read "The Lowest Animal"--p. 535
• Answer this question: What is Twain's goal with this satire? What change does he hope to achieve?

Kate Chopin--p. 594

• Read "The Story of an Hour"
• Answer: How does Chopin display the characteristics of Realism in this piece?
• What do the works of Frederick Douglass, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and Kate Chopin all have in common?

Realist Poetry.

• Consider the major ideas of the Realists and they ways they're exhibited by Douglass, Bierce, Twain, and Chopin.
  
• With a group of 2-3, write a poem that focuses on a major idea of Realism, one of the works we've read this week, or that is inspired by something we've read this week.
• Requirements: poem must be at least 12 lines long, no line can be monosyllabic, other poetic features are up to you (rhyme, stanza, etc).
• Write your poem on construction paper and add a visual element.