Week 16: May 6-10

UPCOMING DUE DATES

Tuesday 5/7: Research Paper Revisions due
Friday 5/10: Catcher in the Rye Quiz, chapters 17-23 (pages 123-214)
Monday  5/13: American Lit End of Course Test -- GET TO SLEEP EARLY!
Thursday 5/16: War and Alienation Unit Test (Catcher, Realism, Modernism)

RECENT HANDOUTS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Realism and Naturalism background
• "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" questions
• "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" pictures
• Catcher in the Rye Socratic seminar preparation
• EOCT Review: Poetry Genres and Structures
• EOCT Review: Poetry Sound Devices and Figurative Language
• Research Paper Revision Instructions
• Modernism Background
• Hemingway's "A Soldier's Home"
• "A Soldier's Home" and "Ballad of the Ball Turret Gunner" questions

Submitting your research paper revision

•  To turn in the research paper revision, submit the electronic file (word doc) to the revision assignment posted to turnitin.com -- log into your account and our class, then find the assignment labeled "American Voices Research Paper -- On Time Revision 1."  The assignment will be open until 5:00 pm on Tuesday.  You will also need to submit the reverse outline and print-out of the paper with comments and rubric.

Monday May 6

• Modernism background -- fragmentation, ambiguity, collapsed plots/en medias res
• Hemingway bio and the iceberg effect
• Read "Soldier's Home"
• Finish reading for homework

Tuesday May 7

• Complete questions for "Soldier's Home"
• Read Jarrell's "Ballad of the Ball Turret Gunner"
• Discuss and interpret central metaphor
• Compare the two works