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After three weeks of a new semester, I hope we have all settled in well. Only about sixteen more to go!

Film: Today we discussed "Garden State" and some specific scenes and moments that uses mise en scene to advantage to help with the story telling. We will begin a new film on Monday. I know what I want to use, but I'm open to emailed suggestions as well. HW: your weekly review is due Monday.

E2CP: Today we discussed foreshadowing in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." Then we had RW. WW on Monday; be prepared! Your second piece is due in one week!

• Reading Workshop Project
• Beginning on Friday, February 24, our RW will take on a different form.
• During the next two weeks, join up with one or two partners within the class.
• Choose a book that you would like to read together from the following categories:
• Modern Fiction
• Historical Fiction
• Scholarly Non-fiction
• Biography and Memoir (non-sports)
• When you have agreed on a book, bring it to me for approval. Books should be of moderate length and difficulty and should contain literary merit.
• Book groups will set their own schedules for reading, subject to the specific book they have selected, with the goal of completing the book no later than the end of spring break.
• Each week in RW, groups will spend time discussing that week's reading: what they have learned, what issues have been opened or closed, what techniques the author is using, etc. One member each week will be assigned to write the group's findings for the week and its speculations on what might happen next in the book.
• These weekly documents will be compiled at the end and, together with a presentation about the book from the group to the class (the parameters of which will be discussed later) will constitute the assessment for this project.

E3H: We talked individually about registration issues. On Monday, during WW, I will collect the rest of the yellow forms from those who still needed thinking time. CW registrants: don't forget to email me your writing sample (a 500-word description of a place that has meaning to you).

Darned cell phones:

Isn't editing a fun thing?



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