One of my favorite passages in all of literature is Puck’s speech at the end of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. After he has caused all the mischief and conflict that drove the play, he apologizes to the audience–sort of. Actually, he suggests how the audience should think of all the things that have just occurred [...]
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Upon finishing the book, please write a 300 word article considering the question, “What are your feelings about this book?” It’s a generic question, I realize, but I leave it frustratingly generic in order to allow you maximum flexibility in how you respond.
Please look back to the chapters you’ve read most recently, or even further [...]
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Hopefully my pattern for this book won’t get too repetitive to be effective, but for chapter three I’d like you to continue picking out important passages and commenting on them. I think it helps us keep our conversations rooted in the text, as well as give you essentially an endless source of writing prompts. In [...]
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These are what I consider to be important lines from the first chapter of Of Mice and Men. In later chapters, I will expect you to pick out the important lines to discuss in your blogs. In this case, please choose as many of these lines (or ones you’ve identified from your own reading) [...]
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Before we read The Crucible, I’d like you to take some time to look into Arthur Miller. Who was he? What did he do that makes him so famous? When did he write and what about his world was his driving concern? Why is one of his plays in our literature book?
Stage 1: Reading
Please use [...]
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Last weekend, during our “spring break” I spent some time in a local coffee shop doing some reading (selections from The Portable Faulkner) and making a withdrawal on the gift card I’d been given (a white chocolate mocha was the item of interest, though my first sip almost burned my esophagus when I forgot how [...]
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Having read Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” you know there’s no way to escape writing about it. Maybe in some corner of my pinky finger there had been hidden a cell that might have let you out of a written assignment for this story, but then I read Kyriana’s and Nate’s [...]
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Your assignment for Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” is the same as the one for Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams”: respond to the story in your blogs, and be interesting - so interesting that someone who hasn’t read the story will enjoy reading it. Write at least 250 words.
This time, however, I’d [...]
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Having discussed F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams,” I’d like you to respond to the story in your blogs in an interesting manner. Write at least 250 words.
That’s not much of an explanation, I realize, but that aides my goal for this assignment. I want you to be able to discuss a book, story, or [...]
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I am obsessed with Mt. Everest. Well, maybe not Everest itself, but with the outdoors, and with climbing and hiking.
Not that I ever do any of it, however. I can’t afford the equipment needed to climb and I am not interested in doing something so dangerous that I’d risk my chance at being with my [...]
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Of Mice & Men Worth It
