Two Different Assignments

Compare and contrast pregnancy and/or prenatal care across cultures. Choose one country outside of the United States. Be sure to cite your source(s). For example, how are women in the country of Scotland accustomed to receiving prenatal care compared to women in the United States? Is the awareness of taking care of one's body started earlier than the other?

Be sure to cite your source(s).

Many poets of early American literature wrote rhymed verse. Rhymed verse poses a challenge to a poet and teaches a kind of discipline. A clerihew, a poetic form, was invented almost two hundred years after Wheatley's death, but it is an excellent example of a poetic form that contains rhymed verses. Clerihews consist of two couplets with lines of uneven length and irregular meter. Line one rhymes with line two, and line three rhymes with line four. The first line of the poem usually contains the name of a well-known person.

• Clerihews - http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/clerihew.html
• Study the clerihews
• Write your own clerihew using a well-known person in history, entertainment, politics, or sports. You must rhyme the appropriate lines.

For Discussion 4, share your clerihew with the other students in the class.