Sun 4/26 = FINAL call for Bly responses and paper(s), due by midnight; DEADLINE, NO FURTHER EXTENSION!
Mon 4/27 = Read Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" (Google it, or listen along on YouTube...same with all short stories.) Tues 4/28 = Read Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants." I will email you today. Wed 4/29 = Read "Carver's "Cathedral." Zoom class per email. Thurs 4/30 = Read O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" Mon 5/4 = Read Hurston's "Sweat." I will email today to find out who will take the test. YOU MUST EMAIL NOW IF TAKING TEST! Tues 5/5 = TWO of your choice from this https://americanliterature.com/twenty-great-american-short-stories; No Zoom. See email 5/4. Wed 5/6 = Unit Test Over Bly and Short Stories: Deadline Day! No Unit Test past this date! That's it! Grades will be "in" by 5/12. Wed 5/13 = NOON Zoom: Class of 2020, WHERE IS EVERYONE GOING??!! Link will be emailed to you on 5/11 BEST WISHES CLASS OF 2020! Mon: Review and completely UNDERSTAND each item in this document: https://guidetowriting.gsu.edu/files/2014/08/grammardoc.pdf
Tues-Thurs: Go through your essays sentence by sentence to make sure NONE of those GSU errors are in your papers. If you have any questions, please just email me. You can submit your papers to me anytime, but the DEADLINE is 4/26 at midnight. Note: There will be no more Zoom classes. If you need me to schedule one, don't hesitate to email me. I am going to get your writing folders from the school on Wednesday 4/22. I will file your research papers and any other papers I have for you, and then I will deliver them to your home mailboxes. It will take me a week or so to do this as I don't live in the Pope district, and I am unfamiliar with the street addresses. I will email you after I make the drop-off.
Here are grades remaining in this class that you can still submit to improve your existing grade: 1. Formative Grade: Covers work from 3/16 to 4/3: Othello, Random Acts of Kindness, Bly, Deadline 4/26 2. Summative Grade: School Days Paper, Deadline 4/26 3. Summative Grade: Time Capsule, Deadline 4/26 4. Either Summative or Formative, whichever you need: Short Stories Test, Deadline 5/8 There will be no final exam. INVITATION COMING: Zoom "Graduation from the Pope English Department" where YOU will be given the mic! 5/11 at 2pm PLEASE DO NOT GIVE UP IF YOU ARE CLOSE TO A GRADE YOU WANT!
Get the Bly summary in to boost the formative grade! Concentrate on one of the papers assigned this week for a summative boost! If you need two summative boosts, do both the papers! As of 4/14 at 10am, all Shakespeare Project grades are in that help your grade. Some body bios, Venn diagrams, speech analyses were amazing. Others meh. The presentations scored the highest (ones that were embedded in order in a PowerPoint). The ones that were out of order or ones that made me keep pressing on folders scored lower. There were many Othello titles that weren't in italics, fanboy errors, documentation errors, lack of documentation errors, outlines that weren't outlines or that didn't follow the directions, "major" speeches that were too short, speech analyses that did not include comments on significance or on literary elements, and there were theme statements that were just nouns again. "Revenge" or "jealousy" is not a theme or a so what. Those are topics that have to be elaborated upon to become a theme, just like the "so what?" statement asked you to do. That is why I tried to rephrase a "theme" statement as a "so what?" statement. I even had "Shakespeare" misspelled a few times. ?? Welcome back! I hope you received my email sent on 5 April, the one that asked you to read it to the end. If you DID NOT RECEIVE IT, PLEASE EMAIL ME! If you want me to use a different email, EMAIL ME! That is the email list I will use to send you links for future Zoom classes. Our Zoom classes will be on Tuesdays at 1 or at 3 if you have questions, or just want to chat. Your assignment this week is to work on the two papers in the blog post below. That's it. However, I do not want you to email them to me by the 19th. Finish them this week, but hold them for something next week. So for the virus paper, the MINIMUM (an average B score) requirement is 5 EDITED, perfect MLA formatted pages with ONE or TWO ONLY of the following: run-ons, fanboy comma errors, introductory comma errors, spelling errors, etc. To score an A, one must rise above. A C has more than two. An A is error-free and truly a pleasure to read. I will have an editing exercise for you next week. Same goes for the School Days paper.
The essay outline is to deal with Othello and needs to answer one of the fourteen prompts given in the packet. Be sure to let me know, too, which prompt you are answering, and be sure to actually answer the prompt entirely with your claim, or thesis statement! ALSO: To annotate is not to merely translate, but to further explain, connect to, elaborate upon, provide significance, etc.... 3/26 by 8pm = One More Random Act Comment
3/27 = Read the Random Acts (press button to left) 3/31 by 8pm = Submission of Shakespeare Project (one email to me per group of 3) AND an individual email telling me how much you did for the project and if there were any problems. 4/1 = Start reading Investigative Reporting Assignment. See 4/1 in calendar view post below. 4/3 by 11pm = Paragraph email to me due. See instructions on 4/3 in post below. Join 3/24 either at 11am (https://zoom.us/j/525891868) OR at 7pm (https://zoom.us/j/414059180)
OK. A SoWhat? statement is a theme statement that encompasses the entire play. Don't give me just a noun! Week 2 of Social Distancing: This week is just working on the Shakespeare Project via email/texting in your groups of three, and don't forget to read everyone's act of kindness by pressing the 3/22 Random Act button below! You guys are amazing! Keep up the distancing, the kindness, and the Shakespeare). Email me with any question(s) you may have. I miss you!
3/2 Monday: R&J
3/3 Tuesday: R&J 3/4 Wednesday: Topic Patterns in Oedipus, Antigone, Cleopatra, Lear, "Araby," and Romeo and Juliet 3/5 Thursday: Intro to Othello 3/6 Friday: Othello 3/9 Monday: Media Center Desktops: Creative planning 3/10 Tuesday: Footloose Bonus Due! Othello 3/11 Wednesday: Video |