Bring to class your copy of Frankenstein
Also, work on newsletter submissions.There is no set number of submissions due (yet). I am merely looking for good work to publish.
Due Monday, March 16, 2009:
Read the Preface and the first five chapters of Frankenstein.
E-mail me your apt writing so that it may be published in the next issue of the Nitrometer.
Due Tuesday, March 17, 2009:
Read through Volume II, Chapter II of Frankenstein. This means through Chapter X for those of you who whose books are not organized into volumes.
Due Wednesday, March 18, 2009:
Read through Volume II of Frankenstein. This means through Chapter XVII for those of you whose books are not organized into volumes.
Submit to me via e-mail at least one newsletter entry no later than midnight Wednesday night (Thursday AM).
Here is a comic template, if you need one.
Due Thursday, March 19, 2009:
Read the next thirteen pages of Frankenstein. Also, if possible, please bring to class your copy of Beowulf.
Due Friday, March 20, 2009:
Finish reading Frankenstein.
Due Monday, March 23, 2009:
Complete Thursday's in-class task, which was to either complete this questionnaire or write the rough draft of a compare/contrast essay regarding Frankenstein and Beowulf (you decide the angle and the thesis).
IMPORTANT:
Please set aside Saturday, April 11, 2009 from 10-2 for a practice exam at GHS.
Please turn in your permission slip and money ($15) for the department-wide English Lit trip to the Renaissance Faire on Sunday, May 17, 2009.
UPCOMING TITLES - ALL ONLINE:
The Book of Job - King James version
Oedipus The King - by Sophocles
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
The homework, as was written on the board, is to read the several-page handout on modern critiques of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
If you were on campus today and chose to not stop by and pick up the homework, then the ONLY way you may earn homework points for today is by writing a 500+-word summary -- in your own words -- of Frankenstein. You will have to, then, tomorrow, also read the article (for no additional points) so that you may participate in the subsequent, related activities. ALSO: Please bring your permission slip for the Renaissance Faire. You may bring the $15 later.
Due Thursday, March 26, 2009:
Read/review the modern critique hand-out and read/review the play.
Review, also, the list of upcoming activities. Bring your permission slip for the Renaissance Faire. CANCELLED.
Earn one day's worth of homework points (extra credit) by attending the Open House Thursday night and signing the sign-in sheet in B211.
Due Friday, March 27, 2009:
Please turn in your answers to the Frankenstein Questions. While you were to discuss the answers with your group, you should turn in your own answers -- with your own voice, written in your own words.
Also, please bring to class your typed 10-question questionnaire that walks students through a comparison of the novel and the play.
And, if you would like to revise your open-ended self-evaluation and turn that in on Friday, here is an extra copy.
Due Monday, March 30, 2009:
Please read the first three chapters of The Book of Job. Keep track of your thoughts in a dialectical journal. While I don't want to encourage you to mindlessly fulfill a baseline quota with regard to journal entries, because I don't want you to: 1) feel entitled to an "A" just because you met the baseline (meeting the baseline should really just garner a "C" anyway); and/or 2) focus more on the task than on the learning, I will say that writing 20-40 entries would be in the ballpark of what is "reasonable."
On Monday, in class, we will continue with Veronica and Aram's questionnaires, and we will afterward discuss The Book of Job and how it is referenced or alluded to in various works of literature.
Due Tuesday, March 31, 2009:
Finish V and A's Q's and read Chapters 4-5 of The Book of Job for which you should write 5-10 entries in your dialectical journal. NEXT>>