Assignment for Wednesday, April 26

In Eyal Press's Beautiful Souls, read and annotate Chapter 2 (pp. 47-84). 

Assignment for Friday, April 7

In Eyal Press's Beautiful Souls, read and annotate pp. 11-28. 

Continue working on the research paper or presentation, or both. The complete draft of the research paper, including the exploratory essay, is due Wednesday, April 12 (whether or not you have class that day). 

Assignment for Wednesday, April 5

Read the prologue in Beautiful Souls (pp. 3-10). Continue working on the research paper or presentation, or both. In class, you will have a practice multiple-choice test for the AP exam, which will take one hour.

Assignment for Thursday, March 30, and Friday, March 31

For Thursday, continue working on your Virginia Woolf assignment, the STP presentation, or the research paper.

On Friday, turn in your Virginia Woolf assignment. We don't have class this day, so you'll need to bring it to me.

Assignment for Tuesday, March 28

Decide which of the options you will complete for the assignment on Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. (Click here for the assignment or see the pull-out tab to the right.) 

Research paper update: The complete draft will not be due before Friday, April 7. We'll check in next week to see where you are and how you're doing. 

Assignment for Wednesday, March 22

Make some progress on either the research paper or presentation, or both. No stress.

If you missed class, watch this TEDx talk by Brene Brown. While watching, pay attention to and reflect on the following: 1) her use of humor, especially self-deprecation, 2) the images and the ways they figuratively reinforce her points, 3) the way she brings together personal, argumentative, and analytical writing, 4) her insight (what is it?).

Assignment for Monday, March 20

Write an additional page of your research paper. Bring A Room of One's Own to class. The guidelines for the presentation and its evaluation form are posted to the right. Hover your mouse over the black bar to the right, and click on the three lines that emerge. You should then see the description of the tab. Click on it, and the relevant links will appear.

Assignment for Tuesday, March 14

Your assignment for Tuesday has two parts, which are detailed below. Also, come to class ready to continue working on the research paper.

Part 1: Select a passage at least ten lines in length (but not more than twenty) from chapter 5 or 6 of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own that stands out to you for its style (the way it is written) or substance (the point Woolf is making). Write a rhetorical analysis of that passage that explains why it stands out to you. This analysis should be six-to-eight sentences long.

Part 2: Then, just as Woolf chose her topic of women and fiction because she thought it was a poorly understood topic, consider an issue regarding any aspect of communication (social media, mass media, literature, social analysis, journalism, and so on) that is of interest to you. Write something about that aspect of communication in a way that imitates Woolf's style and structure in the passage you wrote about in Part 1, and it should be about as long that passage.

Assignment for Thursday, March 9

Read and annotate chapters 5 and 6 in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own (pp. 79-114).

Research Paper Update and School Colors Survey

Since I didn't have a chance to go over your papers with you, I'm moving back the date for turning in the next three-to-four pages. Those will now be due Thursday, March 2 (Day 5), and Friday, March 3 (Day 6).

Also, please go here to complete the survey that Saad and Jeongyoon announced at lunch yesterday for the Pebble about the school's new external colors.

Assignment for Thursday, Feb. 16

Continue working on the research paper. The next three-to-four pages are due on Friday, Feb. 17, or Monday, Feb,. 27. You will have all of Thursday's class to work on the paper.

We will resume reading Woolf's A Room of One's Own after the break, but feel free to continue reading it over the break.

Assignment for Tuesday, Feb. 14

Read and annotate chapter 4 in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. You'll have a little more than half of the class period to continue working on the research paper. I would prefer that you turn in the next three-to-four pages on Friday, Feb. 17, especially if you will be out of town over the break. If you don't turn it in on that day, you'll have to turn it in on Monday, Feb. 27.

Also, remember to touch base with Mrs. Chhablani about your presentation by Friday, Feb. 17.

Assignment for Wednesday, Feb. 8

Read and annotate ch. 3 of Woolf's A Room of One's Own.

Come prepared to continue working on the research paper. The next 3-4 pages are due by Friday, Feb. 17, or Monday, Feb. 27.