Warm-Up: None
Due: Chapter 4
Ch. 5
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Warm-Up: None
Due: Chapter 3
We will be in the lab tomorrow to work on a final edit for our synthesis essay, which will be due in class on Friday, 12/22 Warm-Up: "Suburbia"
Focus: For the second time, the boys observe the girls close up. Pay attention to what they notice about them and how they treat them Warm-Up: Gabriel Garcia Marquez once said that memories are like a broken mirror. Analyze this quote in the context of the novel so far; analyzing how the boys’ accounts of the girls could be potentially distorted due to the passage of time.
Focus: Continue to pay attention to ways in which life has changed for the Lisbon sisters. Warm-Up: “I felt a funeral in my brain”
Homework: Ch. 3 (Part II) Focus: What does Eugenides’ use of flashbacks reveal about the boys/community. BRING A PAPER COPY OF YOUR SYNTHESIS DRAFT TO CLASS TOMORROW! Warm-Up: “Occasionally we heard gunshots coming from the ghetto, but our fathers insisted it was only cars backfiring. Therefore, when the newspapers reported that burials in the city had completely stopped, we didn’t think it affected us.”
Focus: How do the boys see themselves in relation to the Lisbons? Warm-Up: “Clearly you have never been a thirteen year old girl”.
Homework: Excerpt 2 Focus: Has Cecilia’s death brought her freedom? Warm-Up: Who forms the collective “we” in the novel? How do they similarly see the girls as a collective one?
Homework: pgs. 11-14 Focus: The “we” observe the girls up close. How does this change their initial perception of them? Warm-Up: Discussion of next text
Due: n/a Communication Focus: Speaking and Listening
Homework: pgs. 1-10 (paragraph ends on 11) Warm-Up: Discussion of our next text
Due: Notes, L2 Literature Focus: Feminist Criticism
Homework: "Fish Bowl" Discussion tomorrow |