Words... what do they all mean?

Got the scores for last week's poetry: 90.4%!! The teacher says my poems were the "most sophisticated submitted." I, of course, am blown away by this, because I _never_ write poetry, and hardly ever read it. Wow. Here are the three that were in the end-of-week portfolio, for your perusal...

This assignment was to portray man's interaction with nature: ( Ex Cathedra )

This one asked us to make a list of ten highs, lows, and turning points that could be used for writing a poem. A ten-step journey through my "love"-life: ( My boys )

And the instruction for this one was to write a poem based on a photograph of a family member. This is an Italian-style sonnet (per Alan's suggestion) based on a pic of my brother at my eighth-grade graduation (he was eleven and not at all impressed by the goings-on): ( Little Brother )

Huzzah! I got the tags to work! Took me forever, but I did it. Now to revise like crazy for the final portfolio due Friday....

Woot! 88% on last week's writing assignment, though again with requests for additional detail. This time I knew there would be, though. This project was "creative nonfiction" and so I wrote the story of how my paternal grandparents met. Neither of them are available for comment these days (kicking myself for not interviewing Granny before she died last year), and I didn't have time to call & ask my dad. So there's a lack of the little flavoring particles like what kind of dress Granny wore to their first dance, what kind of car Gramps was driving, the songs on the radio, etc.


I scored in the 90's on all the rest of the work for the week; the daily writing journal, the reading discussion forums, and the peer evaluation workshop. The teacher has left me little notes saying, "your submissions were the best submitted this week" and referring other students to my responses in the discussion forum as the depth of thought she likes to see. Never been the teacher's pet before, this is kind of cool.