This summer, in addition to reading for your summer reading group, you must read Flannery O'Connor: Spiritual Writings, ed. by Robert Ellsberg. I have copies to distribute to students.
In addition, as you read, please be guided by these study questions. You are not required over the summer to write anything about the book, but you should note questions you don't understand or can't answer mentally. Once school is back in session, you'll be assigned to write in response to a certain number of questions and then to expand some answers. The summer poem for this course is Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art." You will remember that the poem really is due on the first or second day of school because the assembly is on the Friday of that first week. New students: You need to memorize the poem so that you can recite it by yourself in front of the class. If you are a senior, you are required to have a full (first) draft of your college essay. Here is the All-School Summer Reading List, which contains the Common App prompts for 2021. Some students like to meet with me over the summer to work on the essay, to get it out of the way before school. This is a fine idea. Please email or text me if you would like to meet. |