College Knowledge
Writing Assignment #5
All the writing we do comes from our thoughts and feelings, from our ideas and our emotions. In your first three essays of the quarter, you explored others’ ideas, words, and actions, and you have interacted with people who inhabit different worlds from your own. This time you can turn your attention inward and explore your interior self as a means of understanding the ideas and feelings that eventually surface in your writing.
With this background in mind, we ask that you create your own Bio-Poem, a close look at the inner YOU. Don’t panic! NO RHYMING IS NECESSARY. Below you will find a skeletal format to follow, and this format may allow you to incorporate some of your new vocabulary. These poems will be reflections on who you are, and you will share them with one or two classmates. Because you want to contribute to the common-weal, please take your time, do some serious exploring, and have fun with language.
Your first name
Give at least three descriptive words for yourself
Give two similes or metaphors about yourself
Give a relationship to another person, then complete the following:
Lover of . . .
Who feels . . .
Who needs . . .
Who fears . . .
Who gives . . .
Who would like to see . . .
Who is grateful for . . .
Who is a resident of . . .
Your last name.
Have
some fun with this one!
Revision:
Katie
Caring,
trustworthy, compassionate
Heart
as warm as a burner on a stove
Patient
as the morning dew dripping off the flower
Fiance
Lover
of animals
Happy
with life
Needs
to live my life to the fullest of my potential
Fears
getting old
Gives
all of myself to my family and my relationship
Would
like to see Hawaii
Grateful
for my family
Resident
of Montana
Williamson