due Friday 4/30

Body paragraphs three and four.

due Thursday 4/29

body paragraphs 1 and 2

due Wed. 4/28

Intro and summary of essay

If you want to get ahead, write your first body paragraph.

Essay due Wednesday, 5/5.

due Tuesday 4/27

Claim for your essay; 4th chart, on a passage picked because of its particular pertinence to your claim.

To get ahead: write a motivating introduction, or a ummary of your text (avoid plot summary; think literary terms).

due Friday 4/23

work on your essay text

due Monday: three charts

the essay itself will be due May 5.

due Thursday 4/22

Keep working through your text-essay.

If you want to get ahead, do a chart. Possible guiding question: What's a possible pattern? Feel free to make up your own guiding question, or don't use one--just start with the most intuitively interesting passage you've encountered. Note that you don't have to have finished your text to do a chart.

The essay itself is due May 5.

Bring your anthology to class.

due Monday 4/19

Sula 163-174 (until the end)

Start reading over your essay-text; try to be done by Friday.

Formulate a plan for sharing your chosen text with me.

Wednesday: Sula test.

Hand in your poem if you haven't done so before.

due Friday 4/16

Sula 150-162

choose a verbal text for your next essay

due Thursday 4/15

pp. 138-149 of Sula

revise your poem: Get rid of empty phrases; do you need more specific nouns?

due Monday 4/12

Sula 125-137

grammar quiz: identifying verbals, prepositional phrases, and verbs

due Friday 4/9

Sula 104-125

grammar quiz on Monday

due Thursday 4/8

Sula 89-104

grammar quiz Monday

due Wed. 4/7

Sula 79-85; also read "Point Shirley" (666) and "Dover Beach" (668)

due Tues. 4/6

read Sula 63-78

new reading exercise for Thursday

due Friday 4/2

essay

bring Sula and anthology