PRESENTATION OUTLINE
free write #1:
describe your onion
Writing is an onion.
(#Layers)
1. Write. Reread.
2. Find. Mark.
3. Reread again. Tweak?
A garden of "onions"
and one ode
reading aloud #1:
Ode to the onion
by Pablo Neruda
reading aloud #2
• mark word images
• take notes on meaning
Neruda's "Ode to the Onion" (1-7):
Onion,
luminous flask,
your beauty formed
petal by petal,
crystal scales expanded you
and in the secrecy of the dark earth
your belly grew round with dew.
lines 2-4:
"luminous flask,
your beauty formed
petal by petal"
Explain and keep going.
free write #3:
expand your details.
Use all the words you need to make your point clearly.
• specific examples
• detailed analysis
to do!
1. complete draft analysis
2. begin your ode
produced by
linda pack butler
