September 14

DUE:

1. “Woman Hollering Creek” Worksheet
2. “The School” Worksheet

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ACTIVITIES:

1. Invisible Monsters Remix excerpt — Fragmentation and Experiments in Form
2. Continue discussion of “WHC”
   1. Author’s choice
   2. Level 3 Q’s
   3. Theme
3. Read and discuss “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid
4. Assignment instructions

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HW:

1. Girl Imitation – 250+ words.  Make sure you follow the instructions.

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September 12

DUE: None.

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ACTIVITIES:

1. Forrest Gump clip — example of Pastiche (known also as “pistachio”)
2. “Woman Hollering Creek” Quiz
3. Discuss WHC and begin the Short Story Analysis Worksheet

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HW:

1. Complete all parts of the worksheet for WHC except the Author’s Choice section

September 10

DUE: None.

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ACTIVITIES:

1. Read “The School”
2. Work through the Short Story Analysis Worksheet together as a class
   1. observations
   2. questions
   3. discussion
   4. interpretations
   5. contemporary traits & topics
   6. we skipped Theme and Level 3 Questions
3. Hand out “Woman Hollering Creek”

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HW:

1. Read “Woman Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros–quiz next class.
2. Finish the necessary boxes on the Analysis WS for “The School”

September 6

DUE: Signed syllabus (bring next class if you forgot!)

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ACTIVITIES:

1. Read through the syllabus
2. What is literature?
   1. Debate, discussion, class definition
   2. Is “Howl” literature or not?  We read this article from Slate.
   3. We read the article Are the Harry Potter books great literature? and discussed how the author’s view overlapped with our class definition of literature.

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HW: None!

September 5

DUE: None.

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ACTIVITIES:

1. School pictures
2. Hand out syllabus
3. Read opening lines of “Howl”

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HW:

1. Get your Syllabus signed.