HOMEWORK:
1. Read to page 37 in Of Mice and Men
2. Print a poem by Robert Frost or e.e. cummings and bring it to class on Monday (5 points)
(no, don't try the old "can I show you the poem on my phone?" trick!)
S.A.T. Vocabulary for next Thur/Friday
547 SAT words--learn all of them (ok, just "duress" through "ken," approximately 10-20 on list).
The Pasture Choral rendition
Why is this poem listed at the first of the Robert Frost Complete Poems anthology?
What is revealed about Frost's writing in the poem?
Read 922 in The American Experience (AKA "Big Red Book" in this classroom)
The Road Not Taken
Stopping By Woods on a Winter's Eve
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Quote of the day:
"Beauty if ephemeral--because if it was there all the time, it wouldn't be beautiful"
--Taylor Leveck
Of Mice and Men quiz.
The American Dream. PBS piece on the American Dream
Questions:
Why does George tell Lennie the story?
Why does George stop telling Lennie the story?
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