due Monday February 1

Write your approximately one page piece "How I See Things."

Come up with quotation from Things Fall Apart that will help you think about how power works in the book, or how religion works, or how the two are related (your choice).

Bring Genesis chapters 1-3.

due Friday 1/28

http://koranteng.blogspot.com/2006/03/voices-inside.html

Read or re-read chapter 22-23 of Things Fall Apart.

Think about how to divide up your response to "How I See Things."

Keep working on locating a Bible, or at least Gen. 1-3.

due Thursday 1/27

1. Read or re-read chapter 9 of Things Fall Apart. (We will be reading or re-reading chapters 22 and 23 in the next few days).

COMING ASSIGNMENTS:

2. Get a copy of the Bible, preferably in the New Revised Standard Version. You can find it on-line. Print out to bring to class chapters 1-3 of the Book of Genesis, the first "book" of the Bible (or bring your copy of the Bible itself to class) starting Monday.

3. Due Monday:

Write "How I See the World" (I will email you a description of this assignment).

due Friday 1/22

Modernized version of the beginning of the Inferno, typed and finished.

due Tuesday 1/19

1. Reflections assignment.

2. Read chapter 9, Lathe.

optional: work more on your modern version of the Inferno.

due Friday 1/15

Read chapter 8 of Lathe

Siddhartha analysis (optional)

Reflections due Tuesday

due Thursday 1/14

Read chapter 7 of Lathe of Heaven.

Work on Reflection assignment.

(optional Siddhartha assignment due Friday)

due Wed. 1/13

Lathe chapter 6.

Write for fifteen minutes, continuing your modern-day version of the Inferno.

Remember: Friday, optional analysis of Siddhartha; Tuesday your reflection is due.

due Tues. 1/12

Read chapter 5 of Lathe of Heaven.

Work on your Reflection assignment.

due Mon. 1/11

1. Reade chapter 4 of Lathe of Heaven

2. Work Reflection assignment due Jan. 19

3. Write just the beginning of your story or screenplay of your modern-day version of the beginning of the Inferno.

For a sample screenplay, try http://sfy.ru/

due Friday 1/8/10

Read The Lathe of Heaven, chapter 3.

Start work on your Reflection assignment, to be mailed later today.

due Thursday 1/7/10

Read chapter two of The Lathe of Heaven.

dye Wednesday 1/6

Bring The Inferno, The Lathe of Heaven, and Siddhartha to class.

Read chapter one of The Lathe of Heaven (it's about four pages).

Come up with 10-15 observations of pages 112-115 of Siddhartha.

The observations could be about

what verbs are used

what nouns are used

plot

setting

character

other

Don't let too many of your observations be about any one of these categories; try to get two or three from each.

Due Monday: analysis of pp. 114-115 of Siddhartha.