Week of February 28

Your homework is:

Monday - Read chapters 8 and 9;
Tuesday - Study for a quiz;
Wednesday - Read chapters 10 and 11;
Thursday - Finish chapter 13; and
Friday - Read through chapter 15.

You should take notes as you read. Hint, hint.

The Scarlet Letter

Homework

Wednesday: Read "The Market Place." Prepare for an Applied Practice multiple-choice quiz.
Thursday: Read chapters three through five and take notes.
Friday: Read chapters six and seven and take notes.

If you leave your book in school, then you should simply use an online version. See the link on the side of this page.

February 14 through 18, 2011

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!

All notes for Mississippi Trial, 1955 and Bone by Bone by Bone are due at the beginning of Thursday's class. Expect an in-class writing prompt on Thursday and a Socratic Seminar on Friday. Both will be graded.

February 7, 2011

Are you a budding genius who is the apple of your mother's eye? Do you crave the best of all possible worlds and hope to find yourself on the top of the world? Do you work yourself to the bone and burn the midnight oil completing your assignments? On top of it all, do you mind your p's and q's? Do you bend over backward to do everything just right and then wonder why your teacher says that she wants to tear out her hair when she reads your papers? It's because you need to throw in the towel and eliminate cliches from your writing!

Homework:
Last Friday: Create a list of fifteen cliches and bring a shoebox to class.

By Friday: Bury ten cliches both physically (in a shoebox) and metaphorically (in an elegy). Forward your elegies using email.

And each night: Read either Bone by Bone by Bone or Mississippi Trial, 1995 and keep a dialectical journal. You must read the text and complete eight journal entries by Thursday, February 17.