Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Early day!!! For you, not for me--I have a department meeting. I'll be around after the meeting, though, if anyone needs help with anything.

APees: Review for Hamlet Unit Test tomorrow. The test is 70 questions ranging from multiple choice to short answer, and we will be reviewing extensively today. Also, we will be discussing/evaluating the following statement from T. S. Eliot regarding Hamlet: "So far from being Shakespeare's masterpiece, the play is most certainly an artistic failure. . .both workmanship and thought are in an unstable condition." Refute? Defend?

(Also, Mrs. Pleicones will be popping by to give you your diploma forms.)

Gifted English II: Grammar review on correct usage, followed by an introductory discussion of Candide and the following elements: A) Pangloss; B) the Lisbon earthquake; C) Leibniz; and D) the concepts of picaresque and bildungsroman.