Assignment for Wednesday 4/18

Read Act I, Scenes I and II of Hamlet and post responses to the following questions. These will be recorded as homework grades...15 pts. each if you do them reasonably well, 0 if you have not posted by the beginning of class.

1. What portents appear in Act I Scene I? What does Horatio think these signs mean?

2. In his soliloquy, Hamlet uses the image of an unweeded garden. What is Hamlet comparing to a garden? What are the weeds? Who is responsible for tending the garden? If Hamlet were the chief gardener, how do you think he would go about restoring the garden?

Ch. 30 Assignment

Post answers to the following questions from Ch. 30 RGs:

Kat – pt. 1 #1 & pt. 2 #5
Eddie – pt. 1# 2 & pt. 2 #4
Nathan – pt. 1# 3 & pt. 2 #3
Billy – pt. 1#4 & pt. 2 #2
Jack – pt. 1 #5 & pt. 2 #1
Cayce – pt. 1# 6 & pt. 2 #4
Michael – pt. 1#3 & pt. 2 #5
Tommy – pt. 1 #1 & pt. 2 #2
Maddie – pt. 1 #4 & pt. 2 #3
Eric – pt. 1 #6 & pt. 2 #1

Oedipus Unit Itinerary

Reading: Perrine's "The Elements of Drama," Ch 1. pp 1036-1039; Ch. 3 pp. 1222-1229; Oedipus Rex pp 1229-1274.

Assessment: CPS Quiz (40 pts.)

W 3/21 – finish Metamorphosis questions/begin drama reading
HW: selections from "The Elements of Drama"

Th 3/22 – DPS essay samples/discuss Kafka
HW: begin reading Oedipus

F 3/23 - Oedipus reading day
HW: finish the play

M 3/26 – Oedipus discussion day
HW: review for quiz

T 3/27 - CPS Quiz over Oedipus/"Elements of Drama" (40 pts.)

Class Schedule, 1/25-2/6

Wednesday 1/25 – Paideia Discussion A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

Thursday 1/26 – Pan reading day

Friday 1/27 – First-draft peer-editing day (in 508 Comp Lab, so you can work on papers for the second half of the period)

Monday 1/30 – Pan reading day

Tuesday 1/31 – Pan reading day

Wednesday 2/1 – Pan Reading Quiz (CPS 25 pts.), marked-copies due (50 pts.)

Thursday 2/2 – Paper word day (508 Comp Lab)

Friday 2/3 – Second-draft peer-editing day (in 508 Comp Lab, so you can work on papers for the second half of the period)

Monday 2/6 – AP-Prompt Essay over Pan (25 pts.)

Paper Timeline

Friday 1/13 - Work Day #1 508 Computer Lab/Library. At the end of the period, e-mail me and tell me which question you have chosen and what you accomplished during the period.

Friday 1/20 - Work Day #2 508 Computer Lab/Library.

Friday January 27 - Peer-editing of first drafts. Partners are:

Jack-Michael
Kat-Cayce
Eddie-Eric
Nathan-Sarah
Maddie-Shelby

Friday February 3 - Peer-editing of second drafts.

Friday February 10 - Papers Due.

Short Fiction Unit Itinerary

Week 10 -

The Elements of Fiction Ch. 1
Stories: The Most Dangerous Game & Hunter's in the Snow

Reading Quiz Thursday 10/27

Week 11 -

The Elements of Fiction Ch. 2
Stories: The Destructors, How I Met My Husband, & Interpreter of Maladies

Reading Quiz Friday 11/4
Week 12/13 -

Chapter 3 "Characterization"

Stories: Night Roamers, Sin, Everyday Use, Miss Brill, Xingu

Reading Quiz Thursday 11/17

Paper - The Ladies of Xingu: A Study in Characterization. Due (typed, double-spaced, no more than 1,500 words) Tuesday 11/22. Peer-editing schedule to follow.

Week 14 -

Chapter 4 "Theme"

Stories: A Fragment of Life, The Lesson, Gooseberries, A Worn Path

Week 7 Itinerary

Monday 10/3: Peer-edit second drafts
HW: Blackberry-picking and questions!

Tuesday 10/4: Discuss Quizzes and begin DQs for The Misanthrope
HW: work on paper!

Wednesday 10/5: Discuss Blackberry-picking and finish DQs for The Misanthrope
HW: finish paper!

Thursday 10/6: Dante Papers due (100 pts.)
Misanthrope discussion
NO HOMEWORK!