1. 1st and 3rd picked up the last words on college essays--what to avoid as well as strategies for doing something more original.
2. Slightly varied versions of "Granny Weatherall': 3rd period still needs to pick up the poetry, but to anyone who was absent Thursday in 1st period or Friday in 6th period, you are expected to read two poems by Emily Dickinson. Both are in your lit book (pp. 687 and 686): "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" and "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died." (3rd, we will all still do this, but it's not homework now)
3. In all classes, though, we established ideas about setting in GW, with slippage into other elements.
FOR MONDAY
- Be working on your draft. Plan to churn one out over the week-end that you can revise with more detached objectivity over the Monday-Tues. time frame.
- Here is a link to one of the sites I shared in class, and please check the link given later in the article to a whole slew of sites, some with excellent examples:
- Read the next short story--no writing for Monday, but DO read with a close eye (and probably annotations) for your particular focus for this story:
- James Joyce, "Araby" (345 ff. in the 6th Compact Editon)
A - Setting
B - Tone and Style
C - Theme
D - Symbol
E - Point of View
F - Character
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