Weeks 17 & 18--Review

M 5/15--S: Conferences

• • Continue reading your book for homework

  • If meeting with me, please write your "Letter to Sophomore Self"

Tu 5/16--S: Conferences

• • Continue reading your book for homework

  • If meeting with me, please write your "Letter to Sophomore Self"

Thurs 5/18--L: Review for Final/Discussion of Book Project

• • Please bring your books to class!

Fri 5/19--S: Review for Final:

• • Please read study guide for final (attached doc below)

    • • On Canvas, please post a list of three ideas, values or themes that The Great Gatsby and Fences share.

        • • After each idea/value/theme, please say a few words about how that theme is expressed in each work.

          • Note: it is not enough to say that "love" is a theme in all three texts. As with thesis sentences, specificity is the key here!

          • Here's the link to the assignment page on Canvas: link to homework

          • Minimum word count: 300 words

          • Also, please review sample essays on Fences and other works from the semester:

          • Sample Essays on Fences

• • • • • Here's the link to guidelines for the Book Review part of the final: Sample Book Reviews and Guidelines

Tu 5/23--L: Review for Final

• • Please post two passages of at least 50 words apiece, one from Fences and one from The Great Gatsby.

  • Then, freewrite on the theme or idea that you see that connects these two passages.

    • If you wish, you can begin your freewrite with an essay question that links the two passages in some way.

      • • If you wish, you can incorporate other quotations from the two texts (The Great Gatsby, Fences)

    • Minimum word count: 400 words (not including the two passages)

      • • Here's the link

Weds 5/24--S: Party/Evals

• Homework:

  • Please locate your block's Google doc titled "Passage Analysis for the Final"

    • Comment on the two passages

    • Minimum word count: 300

• Write the following on a Google doc I'll post:

  • The titles of 1-3 books you'd suggest to your classmates and me for summer reading.

  • A brief description of the book/s and why you think your classmates and I might be interested in reading it/them.

  • Please bring your computer charged up today so you can do the eval for the class--thanks!

Fri 5/26--FINAL