Use the Dropbox link to upload any work: https://www.dropbox.com/request/Hg4bruoSTQat2veeedCr Here it is as a link. Friday 8 March: Vocabulary review, begin As I Lay Dying in class Monday 11 March: Hot seat opens for Imitative Short Story; AILD reading through p. 25 due; vocabulary update Tuesday 12 March: AILD pp. 26-34 due Lab: Step 4 Comprehensive Review discussion; topic requests made Wednesday 13 March: AILD pp. 35-57 due Thursday 14 March: AILD pp. 58-81 due Friday 15 March: Workday for Imitative Story; hot seats available; vocabulary review Monday 18 March: AILD pp. 82-102 due Tuesday 19 March: AILD pp. 103-127 due Lab: Canceled for St. Joseph's day Wednesday 20 March: Hot seat closes for Imitative Short Story; in-class activity AILD; vocabulary review Thursday 21 March: AILD 128-149 due Friday 22 March: Imitative Short Story due; celebratory reading; extra credit sonnets due for recitation Monday 25 March: Reading forward in AILD pp. 150-176 Tuesday 26 March: Class canceled for Gala practice (AILD pp. 150-176 due) Lab: Argument prompt redux; working the prompt exercise; list of rhetorical terms Wednesday 27 March: AILD pp.177-197 due; vocabulary review Thursday 28 March: AILD pp. 198-217 due; vocabulary review Friday 29 March: AILD pp. 218-238 due; vocabulary review Monday 1 April: AILD pp. 239-end due Tuesday 2 April: Objective test, characters and events Lab: Ideas by request: Usage (4 main uses of commas); reminder of tests due (2) after spring break Wednesday 3 April: March vocabulary test Thursday 4 April: In-class writing: AILD and Faulkner's Nobel speech Coming up: Lab for Tuesday after Gala: Have three folders for materials: 1. Synthesis, 2. Rhetorical Analysis, 3. Argument. Divide all notes and handouts into these categories and file them, to be able to distill main ideas. Tuesday 19 February: Proto-Modernism: Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio; "The Book of the Grotesque"; "Hands"; any early poem recitations Lab: Argument essay practice activity; prompts and responses for your reference Wednesday 20 February: Last day to turn in Dickinson paper; Snow Day! Friday 22 February: Prufrock p. 2 due for recitation; "Tandy" or "Hands" due (available via Winesburg, Ohio link, above) Tuesday 26 February: "The Strength of God"; here is a sample sourced argument for you to look at "foregrounding the argument"; here is a sample piece that shows excellent transitions (though it is an argument of inquiry, not a position paper) Lab: Argument practice essay in class Wednesday 27 February: Hot seat closes for the Sourced Argument paper; Hemingway: "Soldier's Home" in class Friday 1 March: Final Sourced Argument due; "Big Two-Hearted River, Part I" in class Tuesday 5 March: "Big Two-Hearted River, Part I" Lab: Chapter 8, 5 Steps to a 5 Wednesday 6 March: "Big Two-Hearted River, Part II"; short story assignment made For Anderson, choose "Paper Pills," "The Teacher," or "Sophistication" For Hemingway, choose "Battler," "The End of Something," or "The Three-Day Blow" |