Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Welcome

1.  Welcome and basic intro stuff including a brief discussion/overview/syllabus.

2.  Diagnostic-  See Below.

3. Outside Reading Assignments-

You'll read 3 books this semester from the following list.  If you don't see any you like, suggest one and we'll discuss it.  I'm telling you now so you can get started.  Books are available most anywhere, except for the college book store.  Use Amazon or Bookman's.

We'll have craft essays/theme essays about these book and we'll discuss them more later.




Cherry Orchard    Tartuffe   Uncle Tom's Cabin   Illiad   Iliad: Poem of Force
  
Real Women Have Curves           Zoot Suit     1984
 
Memoirs of a Geisha    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
 
Invisible Man   Pride and Prejudice   Slaughter House 5    To Kill A Mockingbird
 
In Cold Blood   Huck Finn    Moby Dick   Geography 3   Life Studies   Ariel
 
Crying of Lot 49   All The King's Men    Red Badge of Courage
 
Catcher in the Rye   Of Mice and Men      Great Gatsby       Old Man and the Sea
 
Things Fall Apart    Lord of the Flies    Catch 22        Things They Carried
 
Lolita        Bless Me Ultima          The Sun also Rises
 
The Bell Jar  100 Years of Solitude    20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair
 
Ceremony        Lamara Villa             The Alchemist
 
Life of Pi          The Kite Runner         A Wild Sheep Chase      1000 Splendid Suns
 
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas            On The Road     Howl
 
Captain Corelli's Mandolin          The Stranger         Monkey
 
Also, feel free to suggest a book you are interested in and we'll discuss it.


Diagnostic-

Have you ever heard the saying "Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones?"

Write a response where you:  1.  Explain WHAT this means and
                                             2.  WHY it means what you think it means.

Your topic sentence, if you like, can be something like-  "When people say that "those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" they mean that...

After you identify what it means, please explain to me WHY it means that.  You should be referring back to the words and quoting them in your response.





 
 


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