4/23 & 4/24/24: Introductions. Share your name and a favorite food. Write down where you’d like to be after your graduate and what you hope to be doing. Talk about the expectations for the class. If time allows, we will read “Homestead Park” (HomesteadPrkPoems), look for reusable poem ideas, form ideas and techniques and write your own poem using some of them.

4/25 & 4/26/24: Write (a web, a list, a freewrite, etc.) for seven minutes about a favorite food. (Possible Questions: What is it? Where/when was the first time you ate it? Where do you eat it? Who prepares it? What does it look like? How does it make you feel? What does it taste like? Have you ever turned anyone on to it? What did they think?) Share your name and the name of the food you wrote about. Read and reread “My Physics Teacher” and This is Just to Say” (My PT-This is-MyTrigDownload) and generate a list of reusable poetry ideas, form ideas and techniques. Write a poems draft using at least one idea from each column. Share one line from your poem. Write a short freewrite about where do you want to be in five years. Ten years? Share and talk about what we might do now to help you get there.

4/29 & 4/30/24: Write a seven-minute freewrite reflecting on either of these phrases: “Life is short. Stop wasting it.” or “Memento mori” (Latin for “Remember your death.” a reminder to intentionally think about your own death every day, as a means of appreciate the present and focus on the future). Read the Haikus and choose one to read aloud. Talk about the “rules” for haikus and low-kus. Write one. Shares? Write a short freewrite about where do you want to be in five years. Ten years? Share and talk about what we might do now to help you get there.