Rewrites and other topics

I hope everyone had a chance to enjoy the beautiful weather this weekend before we have to batten the hatches for the last two weeks of the quarter.

To keep you motivated, I'm proud to offer a huge congratulations to all of you on much stronger commentaries.  And a second congratulations to the two brave students (one from first and one from third) who submitted their Stranger essays to turnitin.com already.

Please remember to submit your reflection and essay to turnitin.com and to bring your outline(s), draft(s) and final copy to class on Monday.

Also, don't forget that you need to come to class with a couple of options for your mini-commentary passage - no two students can have the same passage. 

Monday: I'll clear passages during class; as a group you'll discuss the passages that might be most useful for your project.  In your groups, you'll also discuss the ideals your community attempts to preserve and what causes the society to decay. 

The End Is Near

Congratulations we're nearing the end of first quarter.


Due dates:

Friday March 22nd        Stranger journals due
Monday April 1st          Stranger Essay due:  outline(s), rough draft(s), final draft (reflection + essay)
Wednesday April 3rd    Dystopian Journal 1: mini-commentary
Friday April 5th            Dystopian Journal 2: structure 
Friday April 5th            Vocabulary make-up:  Write the technique, find a quotation from a text this quarter, analyze the technique in the quotation
Thursday April 11th     Dystopian projects due

Stranger Journal 11

I hope you all had a fantastic Friday.  Monday is our last day to discuss aspects of The Stranger in preparation for your in-class writing assignment on Tuesday.

Journal:  Identify 5 questions about specific events or literary devices in the text that you still have questions or concerns about.  Also, consider some or all of the following: why Meursault shoots the stranger; what conclusion doe he come to at the end of the text; and why should we pity Meursault?

Stranger Journal 10

3/5

Tuesday in class we'll discuss the existentialism and absurdism. 

Journal due Wednesday 3/6

Existentialism/Absurdism reflection.

Remember to start with how you understood the text before the interactive oral ,then clearly identify what you learned, and finally explain how the information changed your understanding of the text.

Stranger Journal 9

Finish reading the novel by class on Tuesday.

Journal:

Examine the following concepts.  Remember to pull a variety of quotations to show the variables involved in the subjects below.  You may pull ideas from the entire text.

1.  Playing games

2.  Happiness

3.  Portrayal of death



 

Stranger Journal 8

Excellent discussions in both classes on Friday - well done!

Reading Part II chapter 3 and 4

Journal:

Consider why Camus creates a part I and a part II.  How does Camus make a correlation between the scenes in Part I and the scenes in part II?  Do we see any of the same characters in part II?  Are there any new characters - why or why not?  What happens to motifs such as heat, sun, water, sky, windows...?

Also, continue to tab your group topic.  Examine whether your topic changes or remains constant.  Your group will meet again on Wednesday.