Tuesday

• Christmas Break Reading Assignment
• Over the break, you will read one of the books listed below. Your assignment will be to have a one-on-one, 10-15 minute conversation with me about the deep elements of the text in January. You can listen to me give an overview of each book here.
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin (see me for free copies)
• Grendel by John Gardner (check out in library or order on your own)
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (see me for free copies)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (check out in library or order on your own)
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (check out in library or order on your own)

• POW: Italian sonnet form
• In-class assignment: Read and work through a new Italian sonnet. Formulate either an observation about the poem to share with the class or ain interpretive question to ask the class. 

• Short Fiction: "A Day's Wait" by Ernest Hemingway
•  Discussion Questions turned in.
• HW due Thurs. 12/7/17:  Read "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Come to class with annotations for the following:
• Plot sections (justify the shifts)
• Characterization of the narrator