Wed.

1.  Reading and chatting:  The Necklace--

Monday

Journal-     


We've read two short stories, but I think we need to read at least 12.


Here's the beginning of a list.

Sleepy Hollow
Cask of Amontillado
The Lottery
The Necklace
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Big Two-Hearted River
Walter Mitty
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Cathedral
TC BOYLE-
Things they carried.
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

Domestic manners of Americans (for fun)   




Here's what we'll do with the list.



HW-  Reading and Reading. 

Short story Wed.

1.  Sleepy Hollow? 


2.  Journal-   What is the hardest part of your essay that is due on Friday?


3.  Short Story Devices and Purposes-  Notes--  Setting/ indirect/direct


4.  HW-  reading, this next.

5.  HW-  POETRY essay due on Friday.

Friday

We decided that we'd pick our own topics and poems for the poetry essay.

Also, we read a short story and assigned essay HW for Wednesday and

THIS READING

for Monday.

WEDNESDAY--

We wanted a happy poem.  Fine.  

HERE, take it.


Explain why this poem is happy!!!  USE ACTUAL QUOTES FROM THE POEM!

Please remember the construction... : The poem actually is saying.... what this can mean metaphorically is...

Friday...

Please read Daddy by Sylvia Plath... Look up definitions!

Wed

1.   Journal-   What’s something that interests you in the world?  Why does it?

Future Journal-  Do you remember a vivid dream you had while in REM sleep?  What did you dream? Explain.

2.  Questions and Plans—Me first

? = What “deep symbols” persist in myth X, Y, and Z, and what do they imply about our lives?

Define- 

Explain- myths.

Show that different myths share the same symbols.

Explain what they mean about our lives and why I believe they mean that.

3.  Plan your question…. Share with a friend, Share with us?

4.  Draft due on Wed-  MLA Format.  Works Cited.

5.  Next--  Excerpts from… Epics--