Mon 9/10--Please read and take notes on "Free Fruit for Young Widows." This is a handout. Please mark the paper copy. If you were absent from class, then read the story online at: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/05/17/100517fi_fiction_englander?currentPage=all
Tuesday 9/11--Topic sentence and quotation assignment on "Free Fruit." https://sites.google.com/a/thecollegepreparatoryschool.org/dr-anderson/english-1-3/assignments-1/fall-11--week-3/due-tuesday-sept-20th
Wednesday 9/12--Read and take notes on "Cell One" in your reader. Additional copy of the story to be found here: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2007/01/29/070129fi_fiction_adichie
Some questions to consider as you do the reading:
*** What are the themes or topics of this story?
What is the narrator's relationship with her brother like before, during, and after his incarceration?
Contrast Nnamabia's attitude in prison before and after he begins to witness the guards' treatment of the old man.
Despite his faults, how is Nnamabia a sympathetic character?
Whose story is this, Nnamabia's or his sister's? Explain your response?
Thursday 9/13--Paragraph assignment due on "Cell One." https://sites.google.com/a/thecollegepreparatoryschool.org/dr-anderson/english-1-3/assignments-1/fall-11--week-3/9-23---cell-one-paragraph
Friday 9/14--Vocab quiz #2 of Vocabulary Energizers. Also, read about verbs in the pink Grammar Workbook, pp. 9-12. We'll do exercises on pp. 13-15 in class. Bring only the pink workbook with you.