This morning -
my daughter finished her homework, including writing a poem which she said she could not do (I got her to tell me what it was supposed to contain, and while she watched, I took each piece, wrote a line manifesting one of those pieces, stitched them together, including a sappy last line; she was amazed)
my wife did a bunch of laundry and cleaning
I finished off our Christmas cards (well, all but sealing them); helped the daughteroid; emptied and refilled the dishwasher; and did small stuff.
Busy morning.
Writing poetry, like drawing, like listening to opera, can be so intimidating to students. Breaking it down into pieces and helping put those pieces back together is a good way of looking at it.
ReplyDeleteWell, I think of it as an engineer's way of doing the task. Her instructor seems to feel that the ability to do this, to write and to parse it, is a natural part of life, but my daughter and I disagree.
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