Post for Friday, Oct. 22

IN CLASS ON FRIDAY
Students turned in all three of the short papers.  We went through a process of sorts, however, that actually consumed most of the class period. For the first two papers, students were given time to mark the thesis and to proofread carefully.  If you were absent or did not have a paper on Friday, do two things:

• Mark ABSENT and the date at the top if you were absent; otherwise, mark it LATE
• On the first two papers, highlight the THESIS.  If you do not have your own highlighter, draw square brackets around the thesis.  
• I'm assuming you've proofread--no class time is allotted for this today.

For the thought paper, students were given time to read all the others on their topic and to mark the three best (most interesting/intriguing/insightful, etc.) ideas from the set.  No way to make that up today . . . just turn yours in.

FOR MONDAY

No specific homework.  In-class focus Monday/Tuesday will be "Sonny's Blues."

Upcoming:  

"Metamorphosis"--books intended to be provided, but only 73 arrived (others are back-ordered).  Stay tuned for the plan for dealing with this.

And then--Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.  This is widely available cheap, and many of your friends probably still have it.  We will have NO time for you to be claiming yours is "on order."  You should have it now.  We will be working with this by the first week in November.  Probably not that Monday--but probably by Tuesday.