WHEN YOU TURN IN YOUR REVISION, please remember to include your revised "works cited" page. Next week or the week after, we will spend three days in the library identifying an American poem, short-story, and art work that you will incorporate into your thematic analysis of your novel. These works must be by publilshed, known writers/artists. In the mean time, we're finishing Chopin's novella, and will begin preparing for an essay on it.

MONDAY

Fourth period will review the published literature on Kate Chopin's use of F. Chopin's "Impromptu Fantasie Op. 66 for C minor."
HW: Finish the study guides for chapters 31-33 tonight. You should have read through chapter 36 by class tomorrow.

TUESDAY

Close reading of chapters 35 and chapter 37 today in class, together. "Won't someone think of the children?!?!"
HW: Finish "The Awakening" for class on Thursday...no class on Wednesday.

WEDNESDAY

No class for ACT testing.
HW: Finish the novella. Also, finish the study guide of chapters 34-36--the later is due Friday.

THURSDAY

What does the ending of the novella mean? We will begin revieiwing the poems.
HW: Reading poems in our Awakening packet of materials. You should also finish the study guide--due Friday.

FRIDAY

Continuing to discuss the feminist poems...specificlly, we will look at "Smudging" which was emailed to you yesterday. W: Annotations are due Monday. I have decided to change the date of the test to Wednesday. On Monday, we will discuss "Bar-bie-que," a story by Sandra Cisneros.
Re-read the poem "Smudging" and likewise read and annotate the aforementioned story. Do review your annotations, as I will collect and check those early next week.