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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Explore creative writing through impersonating Wallace Stevens' poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" while choosing a different topic. Dive into 13 stanzas, mimicking structure and sentence style. Rubric includes originality, structure imitation, and timely submission.

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

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  1. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

  2. 13 Ways… • 1st Reading – Aloud • Visualize each stanza in your head as you hear it and follow along • 2nd Reading – To Yourself • Circle the numbers of the five stanzas that appeal to you the most. Next to them, write a comment about why you chose them. • 3rd Reading – Aloud • We will stop after each to discuss.

  3. Assignment Thirteen ways of looking at….. * Choose any topic – except a blackbird. * Mimic Wallace Stevens poem, using interesting details about your topic.   Your impersonations need to resemble the original stanza in shape and sentence structure, but using a different topic to write about should make the stanzas unique to you.

  4. Rubric • Creative, original topic – 25 points • 13 stanzas – 25 points • Imitation of structure in EACH of the 13 stanzas – 25 points • Typed, double-spaced, on time – 25 points

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