Final Faulkner Freakiness

A remarkable amount of stuff happened in the first few minutes of class today. Then we wrote about Faulkner for forty minutes.

HW: Read the first half of Frankenstein (through chapter 11) and post at least once at GC by 12/1

Final Faulkner Discussion

As usual, we have run out of time with much more to say, but such is life. I collected Faulkner worksheets and and the Faulkner questions.
PC and study guide tomorrow.

Poetry with Tim'm West

Today we wrote a bit of poetry with our special guest Tim'm T West. We will revisit the work we did after Thanksgiving break.

Tomorrow: Back to Faulkner

A Plethora of Poems

Today we finished up the poetry presentations and spent a bit of time on Faulkner.

New dates:
11/19 Tim'm West
11/20 More Faulkner & Some PC Review (Questions and Faulkner Worksheet Collected)
11/21 Faulkner PC & SG

Poor Anse

After three more poetry presentations, we spent the rest of our short period discussing the Faulkner discussion questions. More tomorrow.

More Poetry and Faulkner Discussion Qs

We began the day with three poetry presentations and then spent the rest of the period working on some Faulkner discussion questions (available here).

HW Faulkner questions due Monday.

Poetry Presentations & Going to Town

Today we had our first three poetry presentations (way to set the bar high!), and then spend the rest of the time on Faulkner.

Dewey Dell, Darl, and Poetry Projects

After spending roughly half the period discussing Dewey Dell today, we spent the rest of the period finishing up poetry projects, which begin tomorrow.

MLA Madness

Today we spent entirely too long gathering and collecting final draft essays. By the time we did that and had the Faulkner quiz, the period was over.

MLA format revisions are due Wednesday if you need to make them.

More Work Time

Today groups moved to computers and continued work on the project. We will carve out a bit more time to finish these next week.

Poetry Work Time

Students spent the period working on the poetry project.

Washington DC folks: You may certainly have an extension (which, I gathered from your rather rambling, but endearing, phone message, is what you want). I do worry that you will become buried under a ridiculous pile of work if you are not able to do some of it while you are absent, but, ultimately, this is your choice and your problem. ;-)

The Poetry Project Begins

Today we reviewed poetic meter a bit and then I introduced the poetry project (available here). Those of you in DC should form your own groups and do what you can. If you don't have PowerPoint access, you may simply do a more "old school" visual aid that fulfills the same purpose.

Metrical Madness

We started the day by actually reading the announcements, and then continued our discussion of As I Lay Dying for a few minutes. The rest of the period we practiced some mnemonic devices to help students remember the different metrical feet. Expect a short quiz on these tomorrow.

Flurry of Faulkner Fury

Today we began with a warm up, finished response groups and then spent the period in a lively discussion about As I Lay Dying.