Choices for Today

While I´m conferencing with writers, you can work on semi-colon use:

You can find exercises here.

Watch the first half of a speech by Chimanand Ngozi Adichie and answer these questions:

1. When Adichie mentions her preference for high heels what does she mean by the ¨male gaze¨?
2. Evaluate her use of narration.
3. What does ¨homely¨ connotate in Nigeria?
4. Why does Adichie insist on the term ¨feminist¨?
5. Describe how gender roles do harm to both men and women.
6. Do you agree with Adichie? Why? Why not?

Read and organize our Sentence Elimination poems. Ask your classmates to share the poems with you, then compile them on a new Google doc.


Go back to ¨Wild Iris¨ by Louise Gluck. Compare Edna´s suicide to the perspective of the speaker. Record your discussion then post to Soundcloud.