Monday, October 6, 2008

Classwork & Homework, 5th & 6th Rotations

Day 14 (Wednesday, 10.1): Read Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "I'm Waiting." In-class writing exercise. Homework: Send me an electronic version of the Location essay. Complete draft of "I'm Waiting" (30-35 minutes), read Dharma Bums 1-9.

Day 15 (Friday, 10.3): Work on common errors/issues that appeared in Location Essay: parallel structure, variety of sentence structures, transitions between ideas. Dharma Bums chapter one. Homework: please read Dharma Bums 9-49.

Day 16 (Tuesday, 10.7): Dharma Bums 9-49. Watch portions of Halberstam's The Fifties: The Beat. Beat poetry. NO Homework.

Day 17 (Friday, 10.10): Dharma Bums. Beat poetry. Homework: Please read DB 49-79. 10-minute journal on a question, pattern, particularly important passage, emergent theme.


Day 18 (Wednesday, 10.15):
Dharma Bums. Homework: Please read DB 79-108. 10-minute journal on a question, pattern, particularly important passage, emergent theme.

Day 19 (Friday, 10.17): End of first quarter. Dharma Bums. Please turn in any revisions of the location essay by today; include past versions with the new one. Homework: Please read DB 108-149. 10-minute journal on a question, pattern, particularly important passage, emergent theme. Start HW in class (last 30 minutes).

137-171.

171-211

211-244