Don't Forget turnitin.com!

TODAY IN CLASS
Hamlet essays were turned in (complete final draft, peer response sheet, and body paragraphs draft).
The turnitin.com folder for the Final Draft closes tonight at 11:59.  You really should have done that already, but a few of you have not. DO NOT FORGET.

There was an in-class reading and writing activity, described below.  It is HOMEWORK only for those who were absent (whatever the reason:  you DO need to make this up).

We will be doing two poems in blank verse (like most of Hamlet) that make some use of allusion to some aspect of Shakespearean plays.  Today was the first poem,Robert Frost's "Out, Out--"; we used a class set of books from the cupboard, but if you need to make the work up, here is a link to the poem:
http://www.bartleby.com/119/22.html

This poem is based on an actual event that occurred in the area where Frost was living; in fact, he read about it in the local newspaper.  YOUR JOB is to write the newspaper account that Frost might have read:

• Use the tone and style of a newspaper report (esp. a small town paper)
• Include all the details that are relevant to describing what happened (this is where local papers tend to perhaps give a fuller account than a big-city publication might do)
• MAKE UP whatever you would expect to find in a typical write-up (name/age/parents/location, etc.)
• Some people made sure to include the name of the paper, the date, etc--the sort of thing that made it seem real.

(There was a second step, but more on that later)

FOR MONDAY
No homework for the rest of you , but bring your Hamlet text if you didn't have it with you today (or were absent).  On Monday we will get books for the group project. I'm going to try to post who's doing what later this week-end.  (First names only unless I need last initials for clarity).