Roethke's Poetry Exercise

There once was a dog that was blue

With soft ears biting a piece of wood

In its mouth. It looked up at the moon

After rolling in some red mud.

The next day it met a frog who swung in

To a cool pond without making a sound.

 This surprised the dog and she began

to run and cut her paw on a rock.

The frog came and apologized for frightening

The dog and kissed its paw to make it

Better. This was tough for the frog to do because

He was not kind and this burned him inside.

English 1102

English 1102 was a very hard college class I think. I am still in high school and part of joint enrollment, so I have only taken four college classes so far. The other three were easier and did not have a lot of homework like this class did. There has been so much work we have had to do in this class and I feel like there is the most towards the end when everyone is ready to be done for the summer. I personally think it would help to move a majority of the work that is at the end, like the poetry project and the essays, more towards the start of classes simply because that is when students are motivated the most. The research paper process had its good moments and bad. The deadlines were a little close together, but at the same time helped with not procrastinating until the night before to write the actual paper. Some of the assignments in the process could not be required like the notes and quotes because it only benefitted us if we put a lot of thought into it and I did not understand the real point of it. These many assignments helped me to learn more in this class than a class where you do not put any work into it.

The Twilight Saga

Four books by Stephanie Meyer,

caused her fame to spread like wild fire.

Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn,

caused many teens to become drawn

into the world of vampires and wolves.

The first book of this series is Twilight,

which has a theme of love at first sight.

Bella and Edward’s lives are changed once they meet.

He takes her to play baseball and 3 vampires consider her a treat.

After almost dying, Bella and Edward are together forever.

In this series, New Moon is the second book.

Edward leaves Bella and with him, her heart he took.

She gets close to Jacob and does a cliff dive,

then has to go to Volterra to keep Edward alive.

When they return a compromise is made.

The next book, Eclipse, is about fire and ice,

Bella’s life is in danger, which causes enemies to act nice.

Bella visits Jacob, who forces on her a kiss,

and Edward proposes to Bella who will no longer be Ms.

She stays with Edward and breaks Jacob’s heart.

Breaking Dawn had a theme of love and eternal life,

love because Edward takes Bella as his wife.

Renesmee is born, which will cause a fight,

together to save her, vampires and werewolves unite,

to defeat the Volturi and have a happy life.