December 17, 2007

December 17, 2007
Today students wrote Tritinas, and some worked on the challenge of writing a Sestina. These are free verse poems, each with a particular format.
Tritina comes from the Latin word for three. The poet selects three words that can hold much meaning. Those most important words are placed at the ends of lines in a specified pattern.
There are three stanzas and an envoy.
Find instructions for writing a tritina at http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/tritina.htm
or
http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1103398

Each students should have handed in an ink copy of his or her tritina.
Students should have also handed in their ink copies of their odes if they didn't last time.