I have talked enough; now it is your turn to show me you have intelligence worth sharing. We are well past the half-way mark in The Old Man and the Sea, and as you get started on your blog, I’d like you to take a moment and tell me what you can about this book. [...]
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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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When we read stories — especially those from Faulkner — we talked about how a writer loads every detail into it with the most specific intentions. While he was talking about short stories, I think Of Mice and Men (and really, any truly great novel) does the same thing. Each detail, each descriptive point, is [...]
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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
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Wow.
I asked for you to write stories to respond to naturalism and show that you understood what it means for a writer to be called naturalist; what I didn’t expect was the quality of the stories. Not that I doubted your creativity, but creativity does not always produce great stories, and you guys have done [...]
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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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