Friday, October 8, 2010

TODAY IN CLASS
Close-reading continues . . . 1st period at least got our young narrator to the week that crawled by as he day-dreamed his school days away, focusing only on his week-end excursion to Araby.  We move quickly from here--but know that we are headed towards a sure finale on Monday.

Also today:  two hand-outs summarizing details for finalizing and submitting the personal essay as well as some basic info on grammar/mechanics expectations plus relevant sources. I'm linking the one with the grammar links to make it easier to find those sources:
https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1w8xo49-qLjE7DpwA6qgh7LLNzswJ4pxfh2r8DMDbfBs&hl=en&authkey=CJKwkdIP
Also, you should be aware that although we "missed" National Punctuation Day last week, there is a great website here:
http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/

OVER THE WEEK-END
  • Well, be working on the essay.  You want to get it done, but also done well. 
  • Be sure that you've finished required literary elements reading in your book.
  • If you want to read the story for Tuesday, it's John Updike's "A & P"--can't remember the page, but it's the first real story (after the short sample tales, etc.) in the book.

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