Lit. Crit. Day Two

AFTER reading the other blogs of people who shared your criticism type, you should comment on their blog with some insight about their definition (keep all comments constructive).

THEN:
In the interests of getting things together, we will need to share what we now know of our individual types of literary criticism with each other. Your assignment for this is Right Here.
Please work on this collectively with the people who also have the same topic as you. I have made you each an editor of a file in your Google Docs as a starting point. Check your Google Docs for a file named the same as the type of criticism you were assigned.

What is Literary Criticism?

For today's lesson, we will be learning a little about Literary Criticism. Instead of me doing all the work, you will be doing some if it yourself...

Look into the writing... really look!

Click Here for the in-class activity for today. We will discuss this in class prior to working on it. Please pay attention to who is assigned the same criticism as you, as they will become important to you.

Good Luck, and have fun!

Blog Post Assignment #2

For those of you who prefer to be able to refer to your assignment, I am putting it here:

Click here for the assignment

It is a retelling of the tale of Beowulf using our vocab words.

Speaking of Word Origins...

Really, how well timed is this? We just finished our first vocabulary unit which dealt with word origins as part of the learning and assessment. Then, this morning, as I was driving into work, NPR had this great song on about how some famous people's names became nouns...




Check out the full story for more, but I love the video.

Setting up your Blog, 2011-2012 Edition

The documents which I have linked to here are what you need in order to set up your blog for the school year 2011-12. With Blogger, you will use your school Google account to set up your class blog. If you wish to set up a blog for non-school purposes, please use a separate account.

• Blog Instructions

Once your blog is set up, please email Mr. Becksfort with the address for your blog and then proceed to answer the question on the following document:

• First Blog Assignment

Thanks for completing your blog setup and your initial blog post.
Keep writing!

Aldous Huxley Interview

Here is the Mike Wallace Interview of Aldous Huxley. We watched this in class on Wednesday, 9/22.

Disclose.tv - Mike Wallace Interviews Aldous Huxley Video

Also, Here is the comic that we viewed in class which demonstrates the comparison between 1984 and Brave New World.

Be familiar with both.

The Timeline of British Literature

Timeline of British Literature on Prezi