due Tuesday 12/ and Wed. 12/2

due Tues. 12/1:

1. Read Macbeth, 3.4 (the whole scene) and do a four-part reading journal.

2. Write out your supporting evidence concerning Lavinia's (the character Lavinia's) gravitas and religio. Jot down notes as to why you think one piece of evidence is the strongest, second strongest, and third strongest in the case of both gravitas and religio. (Erin and Nahshon: try to get someone in the class to explain this assignment to you, if you can. Otherwise you can catch up later.)

Due Wed. 12/2:

Email your thoughts on which piece of evidence is the strongest (see #2, above) to your partner; continue to email back and forth, discussing the matter, until you have come to a consensus about how to rank your pieces of evidence. Forward your email discussions to me via email.

due Friday 11/20

1. Read Lavinia 212-226.

2. Final version of Lavinia character analysis, including chart! summary! claim! two different versions of your discussion, longer and more concise!

homework over vacation: finish reading Lavinia.

due Thursday 11/19

1. Read Lavinia 196-212 and do a four-part reading journal about these pages.

2. Rewrite if necessary, and then type and print out your discussion of your character from Lavinia. Include your summary and claim, and bring your chart along.

due Wednesday 11/18

1. Write your discussion about your claim about a character from Lavinia.

2. Catch up on your reading from Lavinia if you need to.

due Tuesday 11/17

1. Read Lavinia 181-195.

2. Bring a claim as well as your summary (concerning your Lavinia character) to class.

due Monday 11/16

1. Read Lavinia 162-181

2. Do a chart for your Lavinia character. Do one "row" per page as I explained in class.

due Thursday 11/12

1. Macbeth 1.4 (all, and journal)

2. Lavinia 139-152

3. keep building your list of passages (quotations) that pertain to your chosen character. Keep those quotations brief--find the heart of the quotation.

due Wednesday 11/11

Please note: I forgot to assign today's secretary: Dustin. Dustin, if you can, please recall what happened and write up notes for the class. No one was absent.

1. Macbeth, 1.3.82-175, and four-part journal as before.

2. Read Lavinia 125-139. Quiz Friday; no special preparation required. Just keep up with the reading.

due Tuesday 11/10

1. Read Lavinia 114-125

2. Do a reading journal for Macbeth 1.3.1-38:

(1) Three sentence summary of the reading.

(2) A question or two that the reading gave rise to.

(3) a word from the reading you found striking, with a sentence of explanation as to why.

(4) quote an image you found striking, and explain why in a couple of sentences.

due Monday 11/9

1. Read Lavinia 90-114.

2. Pick up Macbeth from the bookstore and bring it on Monday.

3. Hand in your six stories (three about right v. wrong, three about striving for excellence). Also hand in one typed page, double-spaced, normal-sized font, explaining whether her you think you are more engaged by/interested in questions of right and wrong or questions about how to strive for excellence. Use your stories as evidence.

The criteria this time will be different:

a. Try to remain organized for the entire page. Don't repeat yourself; don't change the subject abruptly; have a good beginning and a good ending. Letting your thoughts flow naturally might be the best strategy.

b. Make every phrase of every sentence count.

If you have less than one page's worth of thoughts, try looking back at your stories and then start again. If you don't write a whole page's worth, it's not a big problem, but you won't get an A.

due Friday 11/6

Lavinia 75-90

Two more paragraphs, one on right v. wrong, one on excellence, as before.

Due Thursday 11/5

1. Two more paragraphs, one on a right v. wrong incident, one on a incident concerning excellence.

2. Read Lavinia 60-75.

1. Lavinia 47-60.

2. Write two paragraphs:

one paragraph about a time during the day (the day you're writing) when the issue of right v. wrong came up in some way.

one paragraph about a time during the day (the day you're writing) when the issue of trying to be more excellent at something came up.

Keep it relaxed, and try to include some of your thinking about the incident.

Bring your paragraphs to class. You will have to hand in a typed version as part of Monday's writing assignment.

3. Keep bringing your material about Julius Caesar to class as well as Lavinia.

due Tuesday 11/3

Read Lavinia pp. 30-47.