Sunday, October 19, 2008

Week of 10/20-10/24: Updated

Because you asked: List of Prepositions.

Monday: Style Imitation/Sentence Variety. HW: "Girl" imitation, due Thursday.
Tuesday: Chapter/Quote project: prepare for Wed.
Wednesday: Gallery walk of quotes; student-led discussion.
Thursday: In-class writing: Final analysis of The Things They Carried.
Friday: Continue/finish discussions. "Girl" paper due.


Due midnight Sunday, 10/26: Blog post: In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien writes the following:

It's now 1990. I'm forty-three years old, which would've seemed impossible to a fourth grader, and yet when I look at photographs of myself as I was in 1956, I realize that in the important ways I haven't changed at all. I was Timmy then; now I'm Tim. But the essence remains the same. I'm not fooled by the baggy pants or the crew cut or the happy smile—I know my own eyes—and there is no doubt that the Timmy smiling at the camera is the Tim I am now. Inside the body, or beyond the body, there is something absolute and unchanging. The human life is all one thing, like a blade tracing loops on ice: a little kid, a twenty-three-year-old infantry sergeant, a middle-aged writer knowing guilt and sorrow. (236)

Write a thoughtful post in which you use specific evidence to defend, challenge, or qualify Tim O’Brien’s assertion regarding life’s changes.

3 comments:

The Monk said...

Posting at 10:03 PM?! What kind of an example are you setting for your students?

The Monk said...

You said in class that the blog post is now due on Tuesday. Is this Monday at 11:59 P.M. or Tuesday at 11:59 P.M.?

Ms. H said...

See this week's assignments.