Our learning objective: To unravel the threads of literature's fuzzy sweater.
Our specific goals this week: Understanding diction, syntax, tone, and the elements of literature as they apply to specific texts.
Author of the Day: Mark Leyner
Word of the Day: prosaic
Gifted English II: Letter to ninth grade teachers (like we discussed last week), A of D, schedule make-up work for new/transferred students/art show for 2nd period quizzes/finish peer review activity from Friday/existentialism handout. Tomorrow: Grammar Diagnostic Test, so please bring a pencil. The revised draft of the Stranger/Death essay is due Tuesday night at midnight on www.turnitin.com AND the next day in hard copy format; please review the Style Sheet (available also on ProgressBook if you've lost it) before submitting. Grazie!
APees: We didn't really have an opportunity to get too far into the Bovary questions on Friday, due to the title parades and the fire drill. Today, I am asking you to work with a partner for a few minutes more before we share our responses in whole-class format. (Some of these questions might appear again in shockingly similar form.) Afterwards, we are doing a syntactical analysis of two passages from Gatsby, and if we don't finish, this will be HW. Tomorrow, we analyze elements of Tess, and Wednesday is our first Multiple Choice practice session. I am working assiduously to grade your tests/essays, but please remember that you do have a resubmission opportunity with the first focus paper. If I return them to you, say, Thursday, then you have until the following Thursday to resubmit it for another score opportunity.
