Wednesday, Sept. 24: Personal Essay--First Draft & Peer Response Day (turnitin.com by 9:55 a.m.)
If you were absent and still have not done/received a Peer Response, talk to me at the START of class tomorrow, not the end!!
Wednesday, Oct. 1: Personal Essay--Final Draft & Peer Response Day (turnitin.com by 9:55 a.m.)
Short Story Unit Calendar/Reading List
Due dates are given for the support material from Perrine; short stories are listed in the order that we'll read them. Dates provided as we go.
12th grade: Senior English classes assign a Resume and and answer to Question #1 in September. Note: Resumes completed in Bridges in 10th grade cannot be used for your senior resume. All Seniors (even those not in English classes at IHS) must complete a resume and the typed answer to Question 1. The resume and question 1 are turned into the Career Center by October 15th of senior year. Senior Resume Guidelines and Expectations
Senior Packet for the Culminating Project
See the resume section of the College Resource Handbook for more help with resumes.
TODAY IN CLASS
Re: the Culminating Project--Although English teachers are required to "assign" this, it is NOT an English grade. I am supposed to check your work before you turn it in, but it is really a quick check to see that it's presentable. I don't get into the details, really, but even at a glance, I have a really sharp eye for typos. I will mark them so that you'll have to fix them and reprint. So you'll be better off if you proofread carefully first.
"The Chrysanthemums" Finale
Students took about 7 minutes to discuss the following questions in small groups:
1) If femininity is an issue with the bathing/dressing scene, how does that relate to the chrysanthemums? OR if the renewal/rebirth idea is a key to that scene, how toes THAT notion relate to the chrysanthemums?
2) So what's up with the porch converstion with Henry?
3) What all does Elisa have to feel sorry/upset about when she sees the "dark speck" on the road?
Be specific re: the reasons.
4) Analyze the simile in the last sentence of the story.
And then I asked about point of view--and then had students read p. 257-top of 258. In 4th we connected this idea to B. F. Skinner and behaviorist psychology. 3rd--we had to stop moments before making the connection.
FOR TOMORROW
Designated pages from Ch. One in Perrine (see Short Story Unit Calendar/Reading List)
We'll be starting "Miss Brill" in class tomorrow (4th looked at the first sentence to note the immediately obvious difference in POV from Steinbeck's story). However, I'd just as soon get us all started on this together, so you aren't being assigned the story as homework.
Instead, if you haven't looked at the Culminating Project material at all yet, look that over tonight so you'll know if you have general questions
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