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Week 3
6/30 (M)
Discussion of Fences. Information about August Wilson.
Assignment for 7/1: Begin Essay 2.
7/1 (T)
Finish discussing Fences. Research paper topic, revisited.
Revising Essay 1. Review of MLA format, as needed for bibliography.
Mini-conferences about preliminary bibliography.
Assignment for 7/2: Begin drafting Essay 2.
7/2 (W)
Continue revising Essay 1 or [postponed] drafting Essay 2.
Assignment for 7/3: Finish Essay 2.
7/3 (R)
Postponed: Essay 2 due. Self-assessment.
Developing the
preliminary bibliography. Writing before reading: What are
your thoughts about the death penalty? Prereading research: What was the
Deep South like in the late 1940s?
Assignment for 7/7: Begin reading A Lesson Before Dying.
Work on research.
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7/4 (F)
INDEPENDENCE DAY
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Week 4
7/7 (M)
Mini-conferences on research.
Assignment for 7/8: Continue reading A Lesson Before Dying for Weds. Questions to consider:
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Does Grant have an obligation to Jefferson? To his aunt and Miss Emma?
To the community?
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What does it mean to be a man?
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does Grant change?
- How
does Jefferson change?
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What is the "lesson" to be learned? Who learns it?
7/8 (T)
Continued work on research.
Assignment for 7/9: Read Chapters 1-4 of A Lesson Before Dying.
Continue revising Essay 1.
7/9 (W)
Discussion of reading.
Assignment for 7/10: Read Chapters 5-8 of A Lesson Before Dying.
7/10 (R)
Drafting Essay 2.
Assignment for 7/11: Read Chapters 9-12 of A Lesson Before
Dying. Continue drafting Essay 2.
7/11 (F)
Discussion of reading. Mini-conferences on research.
Assignment for 7/14: Continue work on Essay 2 as needed. Draft 2-3 pages of
research paper. Read Chapters 13-19 of
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