Aperitifs:
Read any 3 pieces from Arts & Letters
Daily (http://www.aldaily.com/ ).
Respond to me by e-mail in a thoughtful response of at least 250
words for each reading by April 1. (After that, another three will be due by June1)
Hors d’Oeuvres:
5 Short Stories:
“How Beautiful Are thy Feet with Shoes”–W.D.Steele
“The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” – D. H. Lawrence
“A&P” – John Updike
“Barn Burning” – William. Faulkner
"A Clean Well-lighted Place" – Ernest
Hemingway
“Cathedral” – Raymond Carver (maybe)
Soup:
Elements of Grammar & Rhetoric
Entrees:
The Outsider – Albert Camus
&
Siddhartha - Hermann
Hesse
&
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
Dessert:
Modern poetry & "how a poem means" as
displayed in your 10 pg booklet
Read about ONE poet's life and read a selection of the
poems. Make a web page, powerpoint, or participate in after-school discussion
on the same.
Robert Frost: Birches; Mending Wall; After
Apple-Picking, The Wood-Pile
Philip Larkin: Mr. Bleaney; Arundel’s Tomb; Dockery
and Son; Vers de Societe¢; Toads Revisited
Elizabeth Bishop: Sonnet ("Caught…");
The Fish; Roosters; Sandpiper
Harry Thurston: Choose a selection of 6
Dickinson: a selection of ten
VIP Room 2:
Passage to India – E. M. Forster
To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
One of: 1984 – George Orwell; or Alias
Grace – M. Atwood; or Fifth Business – Robertson Davies; or Duddy
Kravitz – Mordecai. Richler
For each of these books, you will be required to e-mail
a personal response (the sole requirements being honesty and
thoughtfulness) after each book is read. You will be required to read at least one
reading for each of the 4 books and participate in an
after-school discussion group (of 5 students per group) involving all
of the selected books.
Extra Helpings:
The larder is full. Ask if you are still hungry. Let
her who has appetite eat.