1. What do you notice about the student’s selection, incorporation, and/or explanation of textual evidence that relates to her key words and thesis?
2. What writing moves that the student writer makes do you admire? In other words, what do you notice about how she writes that you would like to try out in your own essay?
3. Re-read Shakespeare’s “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” (707-708). Choose two of the following questions to answer in your initial discussion post: —– What patterns do you notice in the poem?
— What aspects of the poem deviate from the patterns that you noticed?
— How does the couplet (the last two lines) shed light on the relationship between poetry and love?