Monday, January 28, 2008

APees: On the back of the packet I gave you regarding Heart of Darkness is a statement from the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe. Today in class we are going to assess that statement, particularly this element of it: "Can such a work have artistic merit? I say. . .no, it cannot."

What justifies a work as artistic?
What right do we have to judge something thus?
Aesthetics? Content? Controversy?

Gifted English II: I have FCAT Writes! booklets for each of you; that test will be given on February 12. Today we are doing an in-class informal writing based on a quotation from Othello, Act I, scene ii, and then working in our groups for the Lupercalian festival.