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Writing a Book Review: Choose from the list of books classmates have suggested to read and review. Due April 4.

Announcements and Assignments

Taking the Mystery Out of Poetry.

Creative Project Presentation Schedule and Grading Criteria: Check to see criteria for presentation and to see when you present.

Creative Project Assignment Sheet: Check to see that you are following the assignment requirements.

Due May 2: Film Review

Click Here For Shakespeare Home Page: Midsummer Night's Dream

Poetry Terminology

For Each Poem fill out a Genera Sheet to bring to class for discussion. The sheets may be collected as a pop quiz.

Time Line for British Literature

Poet	Date of Discussion	Poems	Location	Extra Credit Presentations
William Shakespeare MSND Group Questions View Stratford on Avon Pictures	3/3	Sonnet 18 Sonnet 130	p. 379	Lauren Pearson
Anne Bradstreet Elizabeth Barrett Browning	3/5	To My Dear and Loving Husband How do I Love Thee? Let me count the Ways	p.396 p. 457	Courtnee Mendes-Persson
Robert Browning Spera	3/7	My Last Duchess My Ex-Husband	p.464	Kaitlin Jones
William Wordsworth	3/10	I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud	p. 427	Jenna Thomas
John Keats	3/12-14	The Eve of St. Agnes	p. 442	Alex Schroeder
Emily Dickinson	3/24	I Heard a Fly Buzz and others; view video	p. 489	Brittany Scott
William Butler Yeats	3/26	The Stolen Child	p. 499	Ashley Greer
Robert Frost Modernism: The Modernist Movement in Literature Literary Modernism, 1915-1945	3/28	After Apple Picking, The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; view video	p. 508, 509, 511	Vrenie Nielson
ee. cummings Biography and Poetry Little Tree next to america Edgie Poems: Warning! Strong Sexual Content	4/2	in Just- and other selected works	p.533	Sarah Henderson
Anne Sexton Piercy	4/4	Cinderella Barbie Doll	p. 591 p. 619	Danielle Lewis Laural Fulton
Poetry Review	4/8	TBA
Poetry Exam	4/11	No Class; Take Home exam

Week 1: Jan. 14, 16, 18: Syllabus; Understanding and Enjoying Good Literataure; Literary Criticism. Read pages1265-1314 in Literature text.

Week 2: Jan 23, 25 No class Monday. For Wednesay: Grimm's Fairy Tales: a collection of fairy tales. Click here to find the Grimms' Cinderella tale for class reading. Print a copy to bring to class for discussion.

A List of Grimms Fairytales

Visit this link to find Fairy Tale Motifs

Short Story Time Line:

Date	Extra Credit Presenter	Short Story Click on the story's title to access study questions and interesting web sites about the authors and stories
Jan. 28	Matt Lefevre	Metamorphosis: Kafka (click here for study questions
Feb. 1	Kyle Hott	Rocking Horse Winner: Lawerence
Feb. 4	Michael Kloewer	Chrysanthemums: Steinbeck
Feb.6	Lindsay Doane	The Man Who was almost A Man: Wright (click here for study quesitons and for a link to the story.)
Feb. 8	Annika Koenig	Everyday Use: Walker
Feb. 11	Julianna Keleher	Where are You Going. . .: Oats Read about Charles Schmid, serial killer, inspiration for story Lyrics to "It's All Over, Baby Blue
Feb. 13	Sarah Riedel	The Things They Carried: O'Brien
Feb. 15		Review Elements of Short Story
Feb. 18	Short Story Essay Exam
Feb. 20	Short Essay	500-750 words: Discuss the character or story that had the most impact on you; write about the one that you related to the most, or learned the most about yourself or life in general. Grammar, pumctuation, spelling all count. Visit the Writing Center if you need assistance or schedule conference with me.

Note: Students were asking of a humorous story; Here is a link to a story by Kevin McCarthy's "Courage Pulls Throught.". Visit the home page for his web site.