We postponed the reading questions, as we had two poetry roundtables. Gail hosted a roundtable on Gil Scott Heron's "The Revolution Will Not be Televised." Later, Jesus hosted one on Allen Ginsberg and beat poetry.
On Monday, our roundtables will be: Ariel and Lilian.
We worked on commas and used writershelp to learn about three types of commas:
Wednesday:
-Introductory phrase
-Appositive
-BOYSFAN, two independent clauses
We also talked about restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses.
People who received their paper back and proceed with writing Point 3. Others should wait until they get their paper back.
To summarize, on Friday we will:
--do reading questions on poetry piece, "How to Read a Poem"
--listen to Gail's and Jesus's poetry roundtables
To Do for Next Class:
Work on poetry roundtable.
Work on research paper.
Read Lester, Ch. 4
Review the definitions of restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses, as it will be helpful for further work on commas (see below).
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Nonrestrictive: a relative clause that describes or supplements but is not essential in establishing the identity of antecedent and is usually set off by commas in English
Restrictive: a relative clause that identifies the antecedent and that is usually not set off by commas in English.
