Tuesday, September 2, 2008

To All: I know we're keeping an eye on Hanna, and hoping for our friends in NOLA that Gustav goes away by some miracle. According to the most recent projections, Hanna won't even reach us until Friday night or Saturday morning, but we are officially back in the Cone of Uncertainty (which is a philosophically odd place to be, really) so be forewarned and fore-armed.

Sophys: Finish "The Storyteller" by Saki and go over common errors in writing together. Author of the Day today is Nick Bantock.

APees: Prep for Madame Bovary test tomorrow; finish reviewing multiple choice sections from last week; return focus paper #1. If you are one of the few students who did NOT get a literary anthology from the Media Center last week due to lack of ID, you MUST get one before or after school by Friday. Also, if you're interested in acquiring your own personal, special copy of Oedipus Rex--so you can write in it--I'd get that by Friday, too. It's also sometimes called Oedipus the King or Oedipus Tyrranous. They all mean the same play, really. The little red and black paperback version is only 3.95 plus tax! Bargain! Of course, for free you could read it in the aforementioned anthology. . .

AP Word of the Day: PLETHORA (noun): A significant quantity; a myriad