English 3 - shakespeare
monday, march 18 (4)
We’ll begin our discussion of Pride and Prejudice this week. Now I’ll introduce you to the team teaching assignment and how our discussions will work for the remainder of the semester.
How do you read a novel? How do you get yourself to read each night? What kinds of things do we look to do when we begin reading a new novel? Like any other situation in life, new novels take some getting used to; the relationships you build with the characters take time to develop.
How do Harkness discussions work?
wednesday, march 20 (6)
Pride and Prejudice Harkness Discussion
thursday, march 21 (7)
Pride and Prejudice Harkness Discussion
monday, march 25 (green)
Pride and Prejudice Harkness Discussion
wednesday, march 27 (1)
Pride and Prejudice Harkness Discussion
friday, march 29 (3)
Pride and Prejudice Harkness Discussion
Vocabulary Quiz, Units 11-12
monday, april 1 (4)
Pride and Prejudice Harkness Discussion
wednesday, april 3 (6)
Pride and Prejudice Harkness Discussion
thursday, april 4 (7)
Pride and Prejudice Harkness Discussion
monday, april 8 (1)
Pride and Prejudice Harkness Discussion
wednesday, april 10 (3)
Pride and Prejudice Harkness Discussion
Vocabulary Quiz, Units 13-14
what's due?
Friday, March 29 - Vocabulary Quiz, Units 11-12
Wednesday, April 10 - Vocabulary Quiz, Units 13-14
Tuesday, April 16 - Pride and Prejudice In-class Essay
Monday, April 29 - Pride and Prejudice Revision
current text to bring daily
texts to buy now
You can find a copy of Heart of Darkness in Volume F of the anthology. If you did not purchase the anthology then you can find a cheap copy of Heart of Darkness at Half Price Books. You need to have your copy by Monday, April 15.
ONGOING EXTRA CREDIT
Required reading can at times feel like drudgery. And while it's important to do the reading I set for the class, I fully recognize that you'd rather have a say in what it is we read. Unfortunately the freshman curriculum has little student choice built in, so your ongoing extra credit gives you the opportunity to read an outside text in your own time at some point during the semester. I'm very happy to reward you with additional course credit if you take it upon yourself to read a text outside of class and meet with me to discuss it. A few things:
(1) This must be a text you've never read before.
(2) It should be imaginative and of recognized literary merit. The text must be approved beforehand.
(3) The amount of credit awarded is variable depending on the chosen text and how our follow up conversation goes.
(4) While you may read as much as you'd like, I will only award extra credit once per semester.
enjoying literature
Literature's emotional lessons
Authors on the power of literature
How reading makes us more human
STUDYING LITERATURE
"6 reading habits from Harvard"
Achebe, "The Truth of Fiction"
Questions for analyzing novels
Poetry videos
