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English III Exam on Thursday

The last test of the quarter will take place on Thursday and cover the short stories we’ve read and the notes we’ve discussed in our modern American literature unit. Specifically, you should look over these stories and notes:

Ernest Hemingway (A Clean Well-Lighted Place and Hills Like White Elephants)
Raymond Carver (Everything Stuck to Him)
Eudora Welty (A Worn Path)
Flannery O’Connor (The Life You Save May Be Your Own)
William Faulkner (A Rose for Emily)
James Thurber (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Notes and the stories not in the text are located here.

March 22, 2010/by dpogreba

Don’t Read Dostoyevsky?

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A letter to the New York Times:

Cathleen Schine’s essay “I Was a Teenage Illiterate” (Feb. 28) reminds me of a letter that Dostoyevsky wrote at the end of his life to a father concerned over his daughter’s reading (Aug. 18, 1880). As a 12-year-old, Dostoyevsky had enjoyed reading “all of Walter Scott,” and he recommends the father cultivate the child’s “fantasy” properly. Next, “she should read all of Dickens without exception.” And while he recommends everything by such other Russian writers as Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev and Goncharov, he adds, “I don’t think that all my works would be suitable for her.”

March 21, 2010/by dpogreba

Extra Credit Opportunity for AP Lit and Lang

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I am looking to put together a packet of sample essays for use in future classes, and could use your help. If you have an electronic copy of any essay that you’d be willing to share, I’d appreciate them. Ideally, you could send me a Word copy with an estimate of the final grade you received on the piece.

Each student can send as many as three essays for extra credit. They don’t have to be ‘A’ papers; in fact what I want is a collection of A/B/C papers. Please send them to dpogreba@gmail.com.

When I use the essays in the future, no names will be attached, so you
can bask in anonymity.

Thanks!

March 21, 2010/by dpogreba

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