Please read “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway for Thursday, March 5. Then for Tuesday March 10th you turn in answers to the questions found on the last page of the story. The story is to be found here:
Tuesday, March 10 we begin the poetry unit and I will provide selections to be read in class so there will be no reading to prepare for Tuesday. Thursday, March 12 I will not be here and there will be a substitute.
For TUESDAY, March 3 please read “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway.
Found here: http://www.mrbauld.com/hemclean.html
For THURSDAY, March 5 you will do the following assignment. (I apologize for the delay in posting. Therefore, I have shifted the due date to Thursday to compensate).
On a separate piece of paper you must correct all the errors on your sentence fragment and run-on sentence sheets. You must ALSO explain WHY the sentence was a fragment or why it wasn’t for EVERY one of the answers you got wrong. Kudos to those of you with less errors–your homework will be shorter.
Please read “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson (available online). We will have a short quiz in class on recent material. This is due Tuesday, Feb 17th immediately at the beginning of class.
Found here: http://sites.middlebury.edu/individualandthesociety/files/2010/09/jackson_lottery.pdf
Please pick four of the questions listed under “Discussion questions” and answer them substantially (at least 100 words per question). Number the questions please and STAPLE your pages together.
Please read “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (available online). We will have a short quiz on it in class. This is due Tuesday, Feb 10th immediately at the beginning of class.
Found here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm
Also, keep in mind that THERE WILL BE NO CLASS THURSDAY 2/12!
You are to complete a homework assignment that answers ALL the following questions. Please label each question and conform to the word count, which you can check on Microsoft Word:
1) (200 words) Summarize the story. Keep in mind the points we went over in class about what should go in a summary.
2) (200 words) What are some of the problems with reading “The Yellow Wallpaper” as a feminist text? For instance, does the narrator speak for all women? Could the men in the story also be understood as repressed individuals?
3) (200 words) Does the ending of the story suggest progress (a woman tears down the shackles that are binding her) or pessimism (this woman has become completely unstable)? Or is it delivering a different type of message? How should we read this story?
Please read “The Birth Mark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne (available online). We will have a short quiz on it in class.
Found here: http://www.online-literature.com/poe/125/
You are to complete a homework assignment that does the following:
1) In at least 200 words summarize the story.
2) In at least 200 words compare and contrast this story with the one we read in class titled “The Oval Portrait” by Edgar Allen Poe.
3) Did you like this story? Why or why not?
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