I'm leaving tonight for Illinois. Before I leave I need to say a few things.
1. When I return (some time around June 22) I will post the dates for our summer seminars.
2. Below I have posted what to do before, during, and after reading each of the summer reading books. (You will writing two responses to Invisible Man, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Translations; you will be writing three responses to Song of Myself.) Read the works in the order listed above. Getting going with Invisible Man now. We will deal with it at our first summer session. Enjoy!
3. The comment boxes are public. They can be read by anyone. Parents, other teachers, administrators, strangers, etc. Please use "school appropriate" language. (For example, the superintendent has taken an interest in our blogging.... Hello, Mr. Farmer.)
Varsity Jacket by Megan L
Front
Varsity Jacket by Megan L
Back
Denise Levertov
"two by two in the arK of/the ache of it"
Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones)
"there was no one there..."
Adze
Chuck. Chuck. Chuck.
John Wieners
Christmas star, christmas tree, mistletoe, and holly/(but mother under everything in festival paralysis).
Jeff Mangum (with his band Neutral Milk Hotel; Jeff is the one holding the angel)
The only girl I ever loved was born with roses in her eyes
William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
"Returning, I had to cross before the looking-glass; my fascinated glance involuntarily explored the depth it revealed.... and the strange little figure there gazing at me...had the effect of a real spirit: I though it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp..."
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable..."
Translations by Brian Friel
"I set out for somewhere but I couldn't remember where. So I came back here."
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
"I remember watching myself brush my hair and how my eyes looked back at me. The girl I saw was myself yet not quite myself.... What am I doing in this place and who am I?"
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
"Who knows, but that on the lower frequencies I speak for you?"
2 comments:
Hi Mr. Cook,
I just had a quick question, are the blog responces in addition to our twelve hardcopy book responces or are they just the mode that we are handing in our twelve responces?
The blog responses are the mode/form/medium/means-by-which
you will "hand in"/"turn in"/submit
your responses. (I have chosen to do it this way so people who are not in Gloucester but who have access to the internet can still turn in assignments over the course of the summer.)
Also, notice that there are no longer twelve responses but nine (two each for IM, WSS, and T followed by three for Song of Myself).
But this might change depending on how the summer sessions go.
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