due Tuesday June 1

Read A Doll's House up through 1525, Helmer's entrance

work on review project and sentences about sentence patterns

due Friday 5/28

Read pp. 1517-1525, up to s.d. Helmer comes in from the hall

Work on Review Project and/or sentences about sound

due Thursday 5/27

No new assignment. Continue to work on your sentences about sound patterns and your Review Project.

due Wed. 5/26

A Doll House, 1508-1517, up to s.d. "the front door bell rings"

BRP

due Tuesday 5/25

email me: what is worrying the playwright of The Real Inspector Hound?

grammar quiz on sentence structures

due Monday 5/24

finish reading The Real Inspector Hound

work on Big Review Project

work on sentences describing sound

due Friday 5/21

No new assignment; keep working on your Big Review Project: axes, with explanation; start locating the works we've read on the axes; finding the best possible quotation, one for each axis, to support its placement.

due Thursday 5/20

RIH 1068-1074 up to s.d. "Inspector Hound enters"

Short story test.

Big Review Project due June 7: send me your axes!

due Wed. 5/19

read The Real Inspector Hound 1063-1068, to "I think she's got her mouth open"

Short Story test on Thursday

you should have both of your axes, with brief explanations, into me by now. The final project is due June 7.

due Tuesday 5/18

Read The Real Inspector Hound, 1058-1063, up to the the stage direction "the phone rings" (it's the second time the phone rings.

Your second axis, including a brief explanation as to why you care about this axis.

Short story test on Thursday on

A Good Man is Hard to Find

She Unnames Them

Gorilla, My Love

The Yellow Wallpaper

due Friday 5/14

Read "Gorilla, My Love," p. 418

email me an answer to this question: what role does lying (not telling the truth) tell in this story?

due Thursday 5/13

Read "She Unnames Them" (462) and then email me an answer to the following:

how might this be a feminist story?

what else might the story be about besides feminism?

due Tuesday 5/11

Review A Streetcar Named Desire; in class tomorrow there will be a graded group-analysis.

If you want to revise your essay (on the text of your choice) you must meet with me by Thursday.

Due Friday 5/7 and Monday 5/10

No homework due Friday.

For Monday:

1. Be sure to have a hard-copy version of your phrases from A Streetcar Named Desire with you in class to work with.

2. Read "A Good Man in Hard to Find," pp. 364-375, AND then post a comment on this blog, answering this question:

What examples of possible foolishness (define this term however you want) and examples of possible attempts to be wise or good are there in the paragraphs assigned to you? Why do you think they are examples of foolishness or attempts to be wise and good?

Feel free to ask a question on the blog if you're confused about something in the story, or to respond to someone else's question. Feel free to question the others in your paragraph-group about what they've said. Here are your paragraph assignments:

paragraphs 1-9 (note that the paragraphs are numbered in your anthology): Heidi, Elizabeth, Katharine

paragraphs 10-21: David C, Chelsea, Torrie

paragraphs 22-33: Kelly, Adam, Steve

paragraphs 34-64: DeLaney, Cathy

paragraphs 65-95: Soo Jin, Emily, Michal

paragraphs 96-140: Drew, David, Megan

due Thursday 5/6

Finish reading a Streetcar Named Desire.

Keep bringing in your nouns about your partner and work on getting a hard copy of your phrases about Blanche, Stanley, and their relationship; these will be needed Friday.

due Wednesday 5/5

Essay and charts.

optional: start re-reading Streetcar, or act out a scene with a friend, by way of review.

due Tuesday 5/4

1. Copy out ten separate sentences (limit: one sentence each) or phrases (parts of a sentence) that capture something important about Blanche.

2. Copy out ten separate sentences (limit: one sentence each) or phrases (parts of a sentence) that capture something important about Stanley.

3. Copy out ten separate sentences (limit: one sentence each) or phrases (parts of a sentence) that concern the relationship between Stanley and Blanche. For example, "I wouldn't be expecting Mitch over tonight" (1184) or "I won't hang around until he throws me out" (1173).

Then E-MAIL your sentences to me by class-time.