UPDATE
I have made some extra copies of the 'Summer Reading List' if any of you have not gotten your hands on it. Just ask the security guards for a copy. And hurry, I do not believe that the library will be open all summer long!
posted by belag @ Friday, July 01, 2005
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glad to hear from the ap group...hope you can make use of the blog, to keep up with each others' ideas...
out of (lit)teacher curiosity - which books from the list did you look at/read with delight, and perhaps the reason(s) behind the choice?
As far as the Adv Writing, it is not a part of the Saturday workshops; it's time allocated for AP writing, geared towards the essay writing on the test.
I let Viktor add the Creative Writing module to the list of Courses, for the second semester, which if it works out, and people sign up, will follow the framework of the Saturday workshops...
Ok...
Leaving out the 'with delight' part (because when something is obligatory it's usually abstracted from any charm that it might've originally held),more-or less, this is what I chose:
1. Macbeth (because I wanted to pick Shakespeare and I had read 'Othello' recently)
2. Their Eyes Were Watching God (because of the Afro-American slang which Zora N. Hurston used to write the story)
3. A Passage To India (nice cover + a friend read it last year and told me that it was somewhat political, which that got me interested into reading it even then.)
That would be all (folks!)...
The summer reading handout mentiones that three books are to be selected from the list, is there any reason not to go through all five of them (+ journal) ?
i'm afraid there is one contant called - lack of copies for a host of 15+
Well, that's not much of an issue, I'm missing a copy of Beowulf I think, but that is easily obtained online (Gutenberg Project).
feel free to use any e-texts that you can get your hands on, especially if you do not mind the monitor read; however, that is a choice, a personal one.
i am still waiting for 5 other titles to come our way, something i myself also enjoy re-reading with new folk, so bear with what is to come.
primarily, we are to look at beowulf and the plays, whereas for the rest of the assigned titles, they can help you shape the research paper due at the beginning of january...
but more on that subject come september
...well, in that case, I'm changing 'A Passage to India' with 'Beowulf' ;))
mmmm
ok, but watch woody allen's 'annie hall' before that move
...deal ;)
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