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Updated January 27, 2012
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Assignments: January 27 - February 17, 2012, including essay due Feb. 16 (scroll down)
Moodle Homework Discussion Forum continues as usual. Whenever you work on a team seminar, your collaboration entries on the Moodle count towards your total.
Testing Days for third quarter are Monday and Thursday
Friday, January 27
Continue Whitman in class
Assign Essay to be due on Feb. 16. See details on pg. 3 of this assignment sheet.
H/W: continue reading The Great Gatsby; target date for reading test is Thursday, Feb. 9.
Monday, 1/30
Continue Whitman in class
H/W: working on essay and reading The Great Gatsby
Tuesday, 1/31
Timed writing on Invisible Man
H/W: working on essay and reading The Great Gatsby
Wednesday, February 1
Continue Whitman in class
H/W: working on essay and reading The Great Gatsby
Thursday, 2/2
Continue Whitman in class
H/W: working on essay and reading The Great Gatsby
Friday, 2/3 (Mid-quarter)
Continue Whitman in class
H/W: working on essay and reading The Great Gatsby
Monday, 2/6
Continue Whitman in class
H/W: working on essay and reading The Great Gatsby
Tuesday, 2/7
Continue Whitman in class—final day
Assign Whitman criticism seminar teams and dates
H/W: working on essay and reading The Great Gatsby
Wednesday, 2/8 Special Event—no classes
Continue Whitman in class
H/W: complete The Great Gatsby—reading test tomorrow
Thursday, 2/9
Reading TEST on The Great Gatsby and begin discussion
H/W: read Kate Chopin’s The Awakening with target date Feb. 21
Friday, 2/10
Discussion of The Great Gatsby, cont.
H/W: reading The Awakening and working on essay and Whitman seminar
Monday, 2/13
Discussion of The Great Gatsby, cont.
H/W: reading The Awakening and working on essay and Whitman seminar
Tuesday, 2/14
Discussion of The Great Gatsby, cont.
H/W: reading The Awakening and working on essay and Whitman seminar
Wednesday, 2/15
Discussion of The Great Gatsby, cont.
H/W: reading The Awakening and working on essay and Whitman seminar
Thursday, 2/16
Discussion of The Great Gatsby, cont.
H/W: Essay due tonight by 11: 59 p.m. via email to harrellb@episcopalhigh.org
Friday, 2/17
Discussion of The Great Gatsby, final day; anticipate timed writing on Thursday, Feb. 23
H/W: finish Chopin’s The Awakening; reading test on Tuesday, Feb. 21
Monday, 2/20 Presidents Day—no school
THE THIRD QUARTER ESSAY
Assigned: Friday, January 27, 2012
Due date: Thursday, February 16 by 11:59 p.m. via email to harrellb@episcopalhigh.org
Draft deadline: If you wish to get some help, make an appointment to review your draft in a conference scheduled no later than Monday, Feb. 13.
Length/Format: 1000-1250 words/MLA
Topic: How does style shape the rhetorical impact of a writer’s message? Write a stylistic/linguistic study comparing or contrasting any two of the writers we have read so far. Be as creative as you wish in your approach.
Commentary: Obviously your essay will be built on carefully selected texts that you choose for direct analysis, probably two from each writer. In some respects, this assignment is like a timed-writing task expanded to the level of formal polished work and involving two authors as you study them side-by-side. As you develop your work, also work on your own style so that your final product is in a sense your own “work of art.”