Hello English 2 Honors Students! Welcome to the first day of class!
Journal 1 Topic:
Who are you and what are you doing in this class? How did you get here (not by car, or walking-but what brought you to English Honors 2?) Is English a love or simply another talent you possess? What do you expect from the class and your self this year? How far are you prepared to go in order to achieve your goals? Is there anything about yourself that would be helpful for my understanding you? Do you have fear coming in here this year? Of what? What do you read? What do you like or dislike about reading? Please provide your e mail and your parent's e mail for me.
Agenda 8/11/15
1. Journal
2. Name cards
3. Kite Runner Essay collection and what to do if you did not write one yet.
4. "Richard Cory" (to be memorized by Monday 8/17/15)
5. Essay Exam (In class timed essay about Kite Runner 45 minutes) on Thursday 8/13. I will not give you the prompt until the timed writing starts in class on Thursday. You may use any notes that you have from your summer reading of the Kite Runner or notes from the movie.
6. Go over rules, syllabus and blog. Signed syllabus is due on Friday 8/14/15
"Richard Cory"
By Edward Arlington Robinson, 1897
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked:
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.
And he was rich-yes, richer than a king-
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
HW=
1. Signed Syllabus due Friday
2. Start memorizing "Richard Cory" due Monday
3. Read the following three articles about why we memorize due tomorrow for discussion:
Why We Memorize
In Defense of Memorization
Why We Should Memorize-New Yorker
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