Friday, Nov. 5

New news in class today:  Short Fiction Test on Tuesday
This will not be a "mega-test" but it will test your knowledge of both the small details of the stories as well as connections/insights about them.  You need to know authors/titles, but no biography, etc. Some writing, but not extended.  You'll be doing a fair amount of writing apart from this test. The terms--the many terms from the fictional elements--will NOT be on this test (expect something specific on that in the near future, however).  But you should have competence regarding the basic elements, and single out the word epiphany as a term you should know.

The test covers all of the short fiction we've read:
Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums"
Mansfield's "Miss Brill"
Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
Joyce's "Araby"
Updike's "A & P"
Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner"
Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues"
Kafka's "Metamorphosis"

Letters to Veterans--
Don't forget . . .details on yesterday's post.  But more details on US veterans here:

          Veterans’ Day – November 11

Veteran – anyone who has served in the military

Thanking veterans for their service, in a war or not

World War I – 1917-1918 – 53,402 killed
                        1 living veteran

World War II – 1941-1945 – 291,557 killed
                        1,981,000 living veterans

Korean War – 1950-1953 – 33,739 killed
                        2,507,000 living veterans

Vietnam – 1964-1975 – 47,434 killed
                        7,569,000 living veterans

Gulf War – 1990-1991 – 148 killed
                        2,254,000 living veterans

War on Terror – 2001 - – 5760 killed

Total living war veterans: 16,962,000

Total living veterans (periods of war & peace): 22,795,000

TODAY IN CLASS
All classes have now finished discussing Part III.  The rest of the time was spent in some group work in which you tried to synthesize your findings on Kafka's life and personal struggles as described in the "Letter to My Father."

FOR MONDAY
Start reviewing for the test.