If you’d like to practice your literary terms for the quiz this week, you can practice words 1-50 here .
Archive for year: 2008
Sorry for the breakout page, but this is a bit more complicated than normal. You need to complete two of the following writing assignments, one due on Sunday, March 16 and one due on Sunday, March 23–both at 1:00 p.m.
- Prose Essay #2
- Prose Essay #3
- Two Literary Devices
Each Friday, you’ve also got a literary devices quiz:
- Literary Devices Quiz 5 (Friday, March 14)
- Literary Devices Quiz 6 (Friday, March 21)
And you’re reading The Road:
- For Monday, March 17: pgs. 3-150
- For Friday, March 21: pgs. 151-287
Over Break?
Not one bit of work. (Other than that assignment due Sunday, that is.)
Lauren sent me a link to this interesting story in USA Today that suggests that musicians are identifying their unique selves when they create music:
From Eric Clapton to Miles Davis to Yo-Yo Ma, we’ve long heard that when musicians improvise, they’re engaged in an intensely personal pursuit. A pair of scientists have scanned musicians’ brains and now say that’s true.
More precisely, when musicians improvise, they’re using the same part of the brain that responds to a simple request: Tell me about yourself.
The Wednesday Night Discussion group topic is about womyn and science! Read this week’s article here.
Discussion: 7:30 p.m. Fireside Coffee