Post your ghost stories here in the comments. As you post, respond to at least one other student’s story, noting something you liked, something you were surprised by, and something you had questions about—potentially a place for improvement.

Write a short response below highlighting something from one of the poems we’ll look at—we’ll use this as a jumping off point to discuss more in class!

-Expression—how you feel about different topics

-A healthy way to express what you’re going through

-Theme (main purpose or main idea—the point you’re trying to get across. Can have one or multiple themes)

-Imagination

-Figurative language

-Fluid form of writing

-Stanzas (can be like paragraphs)

-Explanation of feelings or emotions

-Can be more general or more personal

-Motifs (things recurring or repeating throughout a poem)

-rhyming (sometimes)

-Cat in the Hat (basic form of rhyming)

-Shakespeare (the canon)

-Can be partial rhymes

-alliteration

-repetition of syllables

Dear all,

Once you’ve finished reading “For Colored Girls,” I want you to pick one specific quote from the choreopoem to write into and about. Write a paragraph about the quote or a specific element from the choreopoem, and why it stands out as important to you! Post it in the comments below

I’m so excited to meet all of you. This website will serve as the class hub; here our class assignments, forums, schedule, syllabus, and discussion are all posted. We’ll go over this next Wednesday, the first day of class, but feel free to poke around!

The website is open access, but it’s also unlisted; that means that, unlike Blackboard, you can get to it without a complicated login process. However! Because it’s unlisted, that means that no one can access it without a link to the course site. This is the case for privacy reasons; we’ll go over other privacy concerns the first day of class.