Monday!

We're having a Test!

You'll need to have read 35-75 in Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. I'd make sure that you know details and have read carefully- I'm likely to ask pointed questions, and we'll be covering 40 pages in 30 questions.

As before, you may bring in a single 3" x 5" index card. You may write on both sides, but it must be in your own hand (not printed off a computer).

Also, there will be a vocab quiz on Tuesday covering Unit 13.

Have a great weekend.

Mr.C.

For the rest of the week...

For Wednesday: Read 35-41 in BLCS.

For Thursday: Read 46-55 in BLCS.

For Friday: Read 56-65 in BLCS.

We'll be talking about themes, ideas, answering questions and so forth in class.

Expect another quiz/test on Monday covering at least 35-65. As before, you'll be allowed a single 3"x5" index card, so you may consider what you'll be including on that.


That's all.

Mr.C.

Vacation time...

...and here's the homework:

Read Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, pages 3-34.

That's it. I'd expect a quiz on that portion, though, on... say... Tuesday.


Have a nice break.


Mr.C.

...and also...

You'll be reading chapter 14 (pages 129-135) tonight in Things Fall Apart. If I were you, I'd expect a closed-book quiz tomorrow. It will be confined in scope to only chapter 14- but read carefully, as the questions will deal with some details of the chapter.

Good Luck!

Mr.C.

Bibliography and Footnote/Endnote Resources

These are direct links- just click on through.


Resources for Bibliography:

MLA rules and examples for Bibliographies.

Some more examples.

An auto format-er feed it your sources and it is supposed to format them properly for you.


Resources for Footnotes/End notes:

Footnote and End note rules and examples.

More examples.

Back to Things Falling Apart...

This week, while I storm through your first drafts, we'll be working on Things Fall Apart in class. Please, make every effort to bring your book with you.

For tomorrow, finish reading chapter 9, and come prepared with a golden line- you don't need to explain it; you only need to have picked out the line.

Given today's performance on Vocab, I'd expect quite a few of you to be retaking the quiz.

Here's something to share with folks.


tafn.

Mr.C.

For Monday the 17th...

...we'll be having a Vocab Quiz on Unit 10.


Flashcards will be due.

For a long-range forecast:

I'm hoping to get your first drafts back to you by next week- likely Thursday, though this may float out to Monday, given that we're not in school on Friday.

That means that the final draft of your term paper (intro, bio, poem #1, poem #2, conclusion, and bibliographies) are going to be due either March 28th or March 31st.
We'll be working on vocab (unit 11) and Things Fall Apart all this coming week, so please be prepared and bring your books with you. Between the 20th of March and the final draft of your paper being due, I won't be assigning any daily homework- I expect you to be using this time to work on your paper.

Have a safe weekend.

Mr.C.