Due Tuesday

Syntax Reading (465-472)

Assignment Info

Due Wednesday:

Part 1 of the Manifesto

Due Thursday:

Diction Reading (436-444)

Due Friday:

Manifesto Part 2

Assignments

Due Monday:

Signed Syllabus

Read "Imagery" (444-451) and "Figures of Speech" ((451-457). Make sure to learn the terms in each section.

Due Wednesday:

Read Part I of "The Manifesto"

Due Thursday, 9/4

Write a 40 minute analysis of the following poem. You may wish to consider such things as structure, diction, figurative language, and imagery. DO NOT CONSULT ONLINE RESOURCES!

Design

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all*, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth --
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth --
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?--
If design govern in a thing so small.

* heal-all: a flower that is normally blue

Robert Frost

Reading Due Thursday

Read through "Part II" of Things Fall Apart. (through chapter 18).

Final Essay Assignment Due June 4th!

Information is available here.

Please note that the due date on the PDF is incorrect and this assignment is really due Wednesday, June 4th!

Due Monday

Please read through a minimum of Chapter 5 of Things Fall Apart for Monday. We will be through chapter 9 by Tuesday, so if you have time to get ahead this weekend, I'd recommend going past chapter 5.

Remember, you may need to create a name bookmark to help you remember the names of the characters.