Barry University Wk 1 in The Palm of Your Hand Prompts Discussion

Description

For this discussion, you will be required to post two prompts on the reading in the Kowit textbook for that week. This week’s reading is the Foreword through Chapter 6. 

  • Required reading: In the Palm of your Hand, pp. i-54 (Foreword – Chapter 6) 
  • login info for the text book will be given.

. You should take a quotation from the text that proposes an idea about poetry or creativity with which you’d like to grapple or a quotation from an actual poem that you would like to explore. 

  • Be sure to introduce the quote, including who said it and where it’s from,
  • then give the quote in quotation marks,
  • then tell us why you’ve chosen it. (Did it confuse you? Did you find it inspiring? Did you disagree with it? Do you find it hard to accomplish? Did it surprise you? Etc.)
  • Then ask an open-ended question designed to provoke a discussion with the rest of the class.
  • ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

You will be required to post four responses to prompts. The responses should be thoughtful and substantive, but they need not be formal. They should be in standard written English, though, not text-speak.