Sunday, September 28, 2008

Agenda for week of 9.29.08


Focus: Tone, Style, and Diction

9.29.08: You should have 2/3 of your memoirs read, with post-it notes. We will be discussing the college essay in class.
9.30.08: No school. Rosh Hashanah.
10.1.08: Read "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway & "Barn Burner" by William Faulkner. Both in anthology. Take notes on stories. Pay specific attention to, well--Tone, Style, and Diction. We will be having the Hemingway vs. Faulkner debates.
10.2.08: read pgs. 154 - 157 in anthology and do two-sided notes.
10.3.08: "Style" / Creative paper due. Details to follow. Will include meta-cognitive.

Image: Rope Swinger
Hans Hofmann
48 ¼ x 60¼"
Oil and Enamel on Canvas
1962

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