2. Diagnostic- See Below.
3. Outside Reading Assignments-
You'll read 3 books this semester from the following list. If you don't see any you like, suggest one and we'll discuss it. I'm telling you now so you can get started. Books are available most anywhere, except for the college book store. Use Amazon or Bookman's.
We'll have craft essays/theme essays about these book and we'll discuss them more later.
Cherry Orchard Tartuffe Uncle Tom's Cabin Illiad Iliad: Poem of Force
Real Women Have Curves Zoot Suit 1984
Memoirs of a Geisha One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Invisible Man Pride and Prejudice Slaughter House 5 To Kill A Mockingbird
In Cold Blood Huck Finn Moby Dick Geography 3 Life Studies Ariel
Crying of Lot 49 All The King's Men Red Badge of Courage
Catcher in the Rye Of Mice and Men Great Gatsby Old Man and the Sea
Things Fall Apart Lord of the Flies Catch 22 Things They Carried
The Bell Jar 100 Years of Solitude 20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Ceremony Lamara Villa The Alchemist
Life of Pi The Kite Runner A Wild Sheep Chase 1000 Splendid Suns
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas On The Road Howl
Captain Corelli's Mandolin The Stranger Monkey
Also, feel free to suggest a book you are interested in and
we'll discuss it.
Diagnostic Writing:
Please read the following poem and interpret it. This means you'll discuss the theme and tell us why you believe the poem means what it means.
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.
In this poem, Frost seems to be challenging conventional belief.
In at least three paragraphs, explain what questions Frost asks and answers and how that leads
readers to an understanding of the theme of the poem.
Provide textual evidence to support your answer. Turn it in when you're done!
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