Revised Assignment Schedules, Next H.W. Assignment, and Performance Guidelines

The assignment schedules posted to the right have been revised and are now accurate for the remainder of the marking period. All the classes are now on the same page with Hamlet.

Your assignment for Friday, April 30, and Monday, May 3, is to read Act I, scene 5 of Hamlet (where Hamlet talks to his father's ghost) and to write a Hamlet journal entry. Please label each of your responses with its corresponding number and write them in separate paragraphs.

Also posted to the right are the guidelines for your group performances. You will receive Handout 2 in class on Friday and Monday, but if you don't have class until Monday, it will be helpful to look at it over the weekend.

Hamlet for Wednesday (4/28) and Thursday (4/29)

In order to bring all the classes up to speed, no matter where we left off in class, you should read through Act I, scene 4 for Wednesday and Thursday, and write a Hamlet journal entry for that reading (see the instructions posted to the right). To be clear, no matter how many scenes you read, you should only respond to three of the options. (For example, if you have to read scenes 3 and 4, do not respond to six of the options; only complete three of them.) If you are in the class that met first block on Monday, do not read the rest of scene 2; instead follow the instructions above. If you hear from someone after you have already completed the original scene 2 assignment, no worries; we will go over scenes 3 and 4 in class.

An Essay for an iPad

Shmoop is sponsoring an essay contest on Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." The grand prize is an Apple iPad 3G. Click here for more details. If you would like me to look over your essay before submitting it, don't hesitate to ask.

No Hamlet reading For Thursday...

...instead, finish revising your essay. Bring Hamlet with you; we'll read it in class. 

Essay 6 due 4/13 and 4/14

Just a reminder that Essay 6 on The Swallows of Kabul is due on Tuesday, April 13 (Day 3), and Wednesday, April 14 (Day 4). The directions for this essay are posted to the right.

Here are links to online versions of the poems we read in class:

Billy Collins, "Introduction to Poetry"

Stephen Crane, "War Is Kind"

Mary Oliver, "Wild Geese"

Naomi Shihab Nye, "Supple Cord"

Robert Frost, "To Earthward"

Czeslaw Milosz, "A Song on the End of the World"

William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming"

Here is the citation information for the last review in your handout:

Thomas Filbin, "Review: Up Close and Personal," in The Hudson Review, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Autumn 2004), pp. 509-514.