Monday: we will finish discussion on “The Foghorn” and will discuss “Harrison Bergeron.”
There will be no homework this week other than working on the essays.
On Friday, THE NEXT Tuesday (5/13), Wednesday and Thursday we will look at some other short stories.
5/19 and 5/20 we will review for the Exam which will be on Thursday 5/22 [...]
Sunday 5/3
Essay Assignment
short story essay options
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
See PAGE called “study help” in the right colums.
PRINT THIS OUT AND BRING TO CLASS.
IMPORTANCE OF PLACE
Cyprus is important to the drama because it is so different from Venice; it is close to the danger of invasion, the people are reputedly hot-headed, and Othello is in absolute command. But the loss of the Turkish fleet gives him time to dwell on his private [...]
