Week 17 and Semester Exam

Reading - Chapter 6 pp 274-285; The Rocking-Horse Winner, Young Goodman Brown, and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.

Tuesday - Discuss Roccking-Horse
Wednesday - Discuss Goodman Brown
Thursday - Discuss Enormous Wings
Friday - Read and discuss A & P

The Semester Exam will be on Tuesday 12/15 at 12:30. It will take the entire two hours and will consist of two prompt essays and @ 35 MC questions. I would spend some time reviewing your rubrics/essay samples and any practice MC questions I have given you this semester before the Exam.

Itinerary: Short Fiction Chapter 5 and Pan

Tuesday 11/17 - Finish sample MCs, read Ch. 5 pp. 227-233 and The Lottery.
HW: The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, bring text and comp. books to class!

Wednesday 11/18 - Discuss The Lottery, comp. book work on Jilting
HW: Hills Like White Elephants

Thursday 11/19 - Comp. book work on White Elephants, then discussion
HW: Xingu papers!

Friday - Papers due. Composion book assessment/collection.
HW: Read and mark-up, Pan. I will collect annotated copies on Monday 12/30 and we will have a CPS quiz over the book. If you have any questions during the break, e-mail them to me by Saturday morning 11/28. I will check e-mail at noon and respond to all question at that time.

Short Fiction Itinerary #2

Week 12 -

Chapter 3 "Characterization"

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

Story Quiz Thursday 11/5

Essay: The Ladies of Xingu: A Study in Characterization. Due (typed, double-spaced, no more than 1,500 words) Friday 11/20

Week 13 -

Chapter 4 "Theme"

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

CPS Story Quiz Friday 11/13

3-Day Itinerary 10/23, 26, & 27

Friday 10/23 - Xingu/Roman Fever discussion in 100 Building Conference Room
HW: Ch. 2 pp 103-110 and The Destructors (111-124)

Monday 10/26 - AP Prompt Essay (9 pts.)
HW: How I Met My Husband (pp 125-140)

Tuesday 10/27 - In groups (A = Char/Julie/Caro/Emily; B = the boys; C = Emalie/Po/Grace)
answer ?s 1, 4, & 6 on p. 124 and 1, 4, & 7 on p. 141
HW: Read the article at the link below...does he persuade you?

http://american.com/archive/2007/july-august-magazine-contents/abolish-the-sat

Short Fiction Itinerary #1

Week 10 -

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

Reading quiz Wednesday 10/21
In-class essay Friday 10/23

Week 11 -

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

Reading Quiz Friday 10/30

Questions to consider: Ode.

Is it a poem about nature? Childhood? Life? Death? Is it a religious poem? Is it a Christian poem? Is it about the subconscious? Who is the speaker? Is it an allegorical poem? What are the “Tree, of many, one” and the “single field”? What is the “something” that they speak of that is gone? Where did it go? Is the poem optimistic or pessimistic? How many different connotations of the word “nature” occur in the poem? Is it a poem about human nature? What ultimately are the “splendor in the grass” and “glory in the flower”? What is the “philosophic mind”? Is it a positive thing or a negative thing?

Poetry Paper #2

Poetry Paper #2 – Using the suggestions on pp 5-7 of “Writing about Literature” in Perrine’s and “The Book of Thel: An Analysis of Death as a Progenitor of Fear”, write a paper either analyzing Wordsworth’s Ode: Intimations of Immortality. (See link below) This paper should be a minimum of 1,000 words, typed and double-spaced. We are going to workshop this paper, so you need to keep to the following schedule:

Thesis and outline of paper – Wednesday 10/7
First draft of paper – Friday 10/9
Second draft – Wednesday 10/14
Final draft – Friday 10/16

http://www.bartleby.com/101/536.html