Goal:
Write an ekphrastic text in response to an image of the animal you are studying.

Objective:
Learn to recognize and engage with the rhetoric of representation (both your own and that of others) as a part of the creative process.

Formal Requirements

• Length: no longer than two pages, typed.
• Must be in response to someone else’s image of the animal, not your own.
• Can be any form, including prose.

Formatting Requirements

• Include your name, group (“Chipmunk” or “Swallow”), animal, and the date.
• This poem will become a part of your Animal Book, where it may be written longhand.
• For the Animal Book, you will need a color reproduction of the image, along with proper citation.

Submission Guidelines

• Due Monday of Week 4 by 4pm.
• Share image and text with small peer critique group via Moodle forum.
• Bring 2 hardcopies of your own work (include image and text) to class on Tuesday for Peer Critique. Color reproduction not required.
• Bring hardcopies of each small peer critique group member’s work (2-3 pieces) to class on Tuesday, with comments.