Question
for the critical review essay you are to choose two poems, short stories, essays, or novels. Whatever you choose they must have a similar theme. State the theme for both stories in your introductory paragraph. In the body paragraphs provide text based evidence to support your theme. There recordings posted on the message board for the Critical review essay.
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Anonymous
please help me choose two poems, short stories, essays, or novels
Reed
What have you read, or what is available in your anthology or otherwise assigned or recommended reading materials?
Ms. Sue
What??!!! You don't know what you're read? Maybe you haven't read anything!
Anonymous
will i read concrete mixers, harlem night song, The city is so big. this are poesms but i'm not sure if they have a lot of things in common
Writeacher
http://patayon.blogspot.com/2012/11/concrete-mixers-by-patricia-hubbell.html
and
http://patayon.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-city-is-so-big-by-richard-garcia.html
Go for it!
and
http://patayon.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-city-is-so-big-by-richard-garcia.html
Go for it!
Anonymous
but do they have a lot of similarities
Writeacher
Have you read them???
Reed
What do you think, after reading them? Have you actually read them?
Anonymous
yes
Reed
Are both poems about cities? What do they say about cities? Or is one of them about flowers in spring and the other about life on a ship?
Anonymous
they both have Big buildings, streets, and bridges depend upon concrete mixers.
Reed
This is your assignment. You have to figure out how they are similar and dissimilar. Compare and contrast them.
Anonymous
ok thank you