Monday, 4/27

AP

Homework

• We turned in our Mango essays--the last official essay of the year.  :-)
  

Poetry Explication

• We heard from Tina and Zach with their poetry presentation over "A Green Cornfield".  The "Song" and "April" groups evaluated.
  

The Sound and the Fury

• We listened to two mini-lectures from Professor Thadious Davis about William Faulkner's "most splendid failure", Faulkner's place as a Modernist, Faulkner's desire to "make things new", and Faulkner's use of time-"The past isn't dead--it's not even past."
  
• I handed out a three-column organizer for the novel to show how old Benjy his, depending on who's taking care of him:  Versh, T.P. or Luster.
  
• I read aloud the first six pages, and we talked about the events Benjy is recalling, what's triggering those memories, who all the characters are and how they're related....
  
• Ben started a poster about the events in the chapter, which we'll add to tomorrow.
  
• We had twenty-five minutes remaining to read, highlight and annotate.
  

Homework

• Read, highlight and annotate pages 1-17 of The Sound and the Fury.
  

MODERN PROSE

• We read.
  
• I read, commented on, then handed back book reports.
  
• We updated our yellow reading records.
  

EARTHBOOK

• Ten day countdown--we continued working on producing the magazine.