due Monday 3/29

bosy paragraphs 3 and 4

Sula 17-29

due Thursday 3/25

Read pages 3-6 of Sula (bring Sula; anthology too)

Write your first body paragraph.

If you're having trouble with your claim or with your order of body paragraphs, please consider communicating with me.

due Wed. 3/24

Write a motivating introduction for an essay that will argue your claim about your chosen short story. (One paragraph)

Write a one-paragraph summary of the short story. Spend little time on plot. Write about characterization, setting, point of view, image patterns, style--any of these that seems helpful. Try to make your paragraph have an artful shape. Try to subtly bias what you say toward your claim.

Pick up Sula from the bookstore.

due Friday 3/5

chart #4 for short story

over break: think about your claim for your essay.

due Thursday 3/4

Read "How," 132-138

due Wed. 3/3

Short story test. You may use your anthology, but not your notes.

For Thursday: "How," pp. 132-138

due Tuesday 3/2

chart 3 for short story essay

if possible, refine your guiding question

do the denotation/connotation exercise

remember the short story test on Wednesday

the criteria are

1. your understanding of the story, measured in part by the quality of the example you raise/discuss

2. do you refine your (implied) claim? Are you successfully exploratory?

Within reason, grammar and spelling are not part of the criteria in this in-class exercise.