Archive for April, 2008

HOMEWORK weeks of 4/28-5/9

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Monday 4/28  Will be discussing “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
NO HW
Tuesday (No class) 4/29
HW:  Edgar Allen Poe:  “The Cask of Amontillado”  p 705  also, please read “The Importance of the single Effect in a Prose Tale”  p.907
Wednesday 4/30
HW:
Gabrielle Garcia Marquez: ” A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”  307
Thursday 5/1
Dr. [...]

week of April 28-May 2, 2008

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Friday 4/25:
Blog
Joyce Carol Oates: “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” 595
4/28 Monday:
Tuesday: no class
HW: Edgar Allen Poe: “The Cask of Amontillado” 699; also please read “The Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale” 907
4/30 Wednesday
HW: Gabriel García Marquez “A Very Old Man with enormous Wings” 307 Please read well; Dr. [...]

Homework Weeks of 4/14-4/25

Monday, April 14th, 2008

If you did not read it Sunday, read “Say Yes” 808 ( Tobias Wolff)
NO CLASS TUESDAY
Tuesday 4/15 “The Lesson” 61 (Toni Cade Bambara)
Wednesday 4/16 “Two Kinds” 731 (Amy Tan)
Thursday 4/17 “The Story of an Hour” 158 (Chopin)
With this very short story–pay exceptionally close attention to every detail. After [...]

Homework 4/7/08-4/11/08

Monday, April 7th, 2008

 This weeks, choose 2 stories to write responses to on your blog.  You may write a 3rd blog on anything.  (It’s optional); reember to readAppendix 2 1044-1059 by Monday…if you read a section or two each night, it shouldn’t be too much.
Monday
in class read Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”   Remember to ask your parent(s) about the [...]

WELCOME BACK!!!!?!!!!

Monday, April 7th, 2008

I hope you all had a memorable and relaxing vacation. I was in Israel and just retrned Sunday Afternoon. So, if I seem a little loopy, please forgive me. I hope that the way I set up my sleep and waking schedule will minimize any strangeness. Toda. (Hebrew for thank you) Shukaran (thank you in [...]