- Everyday when you come to class, you need a notebook, a blue or black pen, some kind of folder to organize and transport handouts and reading packets, loose-leaf paper, and your textbook or homework reading material. Come to class prepared.
- You should subscribe to or "follow" this blog and check it between class meetings. Save it to your favorites/bookmarks.
- There will be an objective reading completion test over A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Wednesday, August 17th, and Thursday, August 18th. We have different versions of the test so there's no use passing along questions to your classmates in other sections.
- We will discuss ATOTC in depth after the reading completion test.
- We are going to refer to How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster throughout the school year.
- We will re-read and discuss Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe later in the school year as part of a thematic unit on Western attitudes towards Africa in English literature.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Reminders
A few reminders for the first days of school:
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What's in a name?
I was reading the euro book
and saw that the gabelle was a French tax originally imposed on all commodities but later limited to salt; Darnay's Gabelle shares a similar unpopularity with his namesake. Also Lucie's name is appropriate considering her role as a "light" in her father's dark life ("Luz" means light in Spanish, probably related to a similar latin root).
Do any of the other names have deeper meaning?
That's great poly. Bring this up in class. We should talk about it and see what everyone thinks.
Keep it up!
Hey Mr. Foster,
This was from last year lol.
02 September, 2010
Haha poly. That's hilarious. Oops.
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