TODAY IN CLASS/HOMEWORK/UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS
Some discussion of upcoming assignments, plus reading time. Here's what you need to know:
Tomorrow: First Group Discussion Day. You should have read up to the following points:
For these two novels, the indicated pages might be too much because several of you did not have the right book on the first day or two. However, consider these to be the ideal target by tomorrow. Do your best.
Jane Eyre--through Chapter 11
Pride and Prejudice--through Chapter 23
For the other four novels, however, you absolutely should be at least to the following points by class-time on Thursday:
Frankenstein--Letters plus Chapters 1-4
Grendel (expect some re-reading along the way)--through Chapter 4
Curious Incident--through "Chapter 101"--that is, to the bottom of p. 69 (I think there's only one edition)
Brave New World--I was misleading with 2nd period because I mis-read the chapters/parts designations. In this book the Roman numerals "trump" the things called "parts". Go to the end of section V; what I told 2nd period actually moves on a few pages into VI. (Wish there were consistent page numbers, but I don't have the version that most of you got from the bookroom.) Please DO double-back and read the Forward, if you did not do that on the day that you started reading.
FOR FRIDAY
There was a hand-out for material on the author's biography and the motivation for writing the particular novel you're reading. Be sure to pick it up in class if you were absent today. Read what's in your book, do some internet searching, but compile what you say into your own words. For the third question, I'll give you a head-start by referring you to particular sections of the gray book, but I will not post that until later this evening.
ADDITIONAL WORK--I will start as a second post the Unit Overview, with details/links/due dates as we go. This is a work in progress.
For now (4:58, after a LONG faculty meeting), this is enough for you to be prepared for tomorrow.
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