Homework

Due Thursday:

1997 essay prompt on "Death of a Toad"
Use ten of the verbs from the AP list I gave you in class today.

Homework - April 5, 2010

Hey kids, I am stuck in CA due to a weather delay, but I will be back on Tuesday. In the meantime, here is your homework for Monday. Come prepared to discuss this on Tuesday. Please type your response:

That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Homework

Easy homework day, my little chickadees... edit each other's papers!

Tomorrow, you get... Great Expectations!

Homework

The latest essay:

1990. Choose a novel or play that depicts a conflict between a parent (or a parental figure) and a son or daughter. Write an essay in which you analyze the sources of the conflict and explain how the conflict contributes to the meaning of the work. Avoid plot summary.

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Finish How to Read Literature Like a Professor

The next essay!

2003. According to critic Northrop Frye, "Tragic heroes are so much the highest points in their human landscape that they seem the inevitable conductors of the power about them, great trees more likely to be struck by lightning than a clump of grass. Conductors may of course be instruments as well as victims of the divisive lightning." Select a novel or play in which a tragic figure functions as an instrument of the suffering of others. Then write an essay in which you explain how the suffering brought upon others by that figure contributes to the tragic vision of the work as a whole.

Homework

Dialectical Journals for Oedipus Rex (The King) and Antigone
15 quotes per each
1 IM for each
Due February 4, 2010