Homework Due Monday, March 7

This weekend please read Wuthering Heights through the end of chapter 29.

You should also start brainstorming and planning your essay. HERE are the prompts. Remember that your first step is to narrow your topic to something manageable in 5-7 pages.

The final draft of your essay is due Monday, March 14th.

Tomorrow (Friday) is an in-class workday. Use this time to catch up on your reading or begin planning your essay.

Hamlet Essay Tips

Here are the slides I'll work with this week during our mini-lectures.

Hamlet Essay

This weekend you should begin work on your Hamlet essay. HERE are the prompts.

Important Dates
     Tuesday, December 15 -- research and notes due
     Tuesday, Dec. 15 - Thursday, Dec. 17 -- in class work days
     Friday, December 18 -- ESSAY DUE

Important Steps

1. Research your topic – go back through the text looking closely for quotations related to your prompt. Copy them down. Always record the act, scene and line number! Some ideas:
1. Use notecards to organize your research
2. Keep everything in one part of your notebook
3. Create a special word document for your research
2. Look at all the evidence you gathered. What are the natural arguments or conclusions you can draw? What patterns can you bring together? Let the text speak—don’t try to force an interpretation that isn’t there!
3. Draft a strong thematic inquiry statement.
4. Write! Revise! Edit!

Tragedy Essay Editing

The news is true! Your essays are now due Wednesday. We will spend the next few days editing our essays and ensuring they are perfect for turn-in.

HERE is our calendar and the list of editing activities.

Tragedy Essay DUE MONDAY

Just a reminder that your tragedy essay is due Monday. This shouldn't be a surprise. We've been working on this all week! You a need a typed and printed copy at the start of class.

HERE is a copy of the presentation I've given the last few days (information about crafting introductions and body paragraphs).

"Study of Reading Habits" Annotation & Essay Assignment

Hi all!

Wow--you guys blew me away today with your deep reading and analytical skills. You absolutely brought it as we discussed Philip Larkin's "A Study of Reading Habits."

Here are our living documents, the annotations we created in class. This is the product of all of our brains working together. You guys taught me some things about this poem.

5th Hour's Annotation

6th Hour's Annotations

We will work more tomorrow with Dickinson's poem and the Morrison essay.

HOMEWORK: Today you received your essay assignment for the weekend. You homework for tonight is to complete the brainstorming questions (pg. 2).