Hemingway Assignment Sheet #1


Assignment Sheet
Voice and Vision, Period One
August 30 – October 5, 2012

At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera. But it was checked and in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army.

Date
Class
Homework
Thursday, August 30
Introduction. Administrative Trivia.
Paradox and Ambiguity, combined with close reading.
Log onto blog for the first time. Reconsider the summer reading to prepare for a quiz and to find 3 passages that are confusing, ambiguous or paradoxical
Friday, August 31
Summer Reading Quiz.
Write response to Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime. Due Tuesday in class.
Monday,  September 3
Labor Day: NO SCHOOL
Write response to Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime. Due Tuesday in class.
Tuesday, September 4
Summer Reading Response Due. Discussion: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.  Hemingway Intro
Read AFTA to page 27. Complete reading guide
Wednesday, September 5
Close reading of Chapter One.
Read AFTA to page 45. Complete reading guide
Thursday, September 6
X-Period: NO CLASS
Study for Vocabulary Quiz, List One.
Friday, September 7
Vocabulary Quiz, List One
Games and war. Character in exposition.
Read AFTA through page 78.
Complete reading guide
Monday, September 10
Juxtaposition, objective correlative, icebergs and exposition
Read AFTA through page 116.
Complete reading guide
Tuesday, September 11
The hospital and even more juxtaposition
Read AFTA through page 159. Complete reading guide
Wednesday, September 12
Even Wed: NO CLASS
Read AFTA through page 159. Complete reading guide
Thursday, September 13
What can we learn from the horse races? Return to front.
Study for Vocabulary Quiz, Lists One and Two
Friday, September 14
Vocabulary Quiz, Lists One and Two
Have we really left the front?
Read AFTA through page 202. Complete reading guide.
Monday, September 17
 Rosh Hashanah: NO SCHOOL
Read AFTA through page 202. Complete reading guide.
Tuesday, September 18
Introduction to the Hemingway Parody contest.
Parody due Monday. What has changed at the front?
Read AFTA through page 233. Complete reading guide
Wednesday, September 19
Harkness: 30 minutes to prepare, 30 minutes to discuss.
Read AFTA through page 233. Complete reading guide
Thursday, September 20
X-Period: NO CLASS
Study for Vocabulary Quiz, Lists One, Two and Three.
Friday, September 21
Vocabulary Quiz, Lists One, Two and Three.
Work on Hemingway parody, due on Monday.
Monday, September 24
Hemingway parody due in class. The retreat and FH’s desertion.
Read AFTA through page 252. Complete reading guide
Tuesday, September 25
What’s changed in Book 4?
No Homework

Wednesday, September 26
Yom Kippur:                      NO SCHOOL
Read AFTA through page 285. Complete reading guide
Thursday, September 27
Lots of close reading of ridiculously famous passages.
No Homework
Friday, September 28
Catching up on loose ends.
Read AFTA through page 303. Complete reading guide
Monday, October 1
Count Greffi’s “wisdom.” The Swiss mountains.
Finish AFTA. Complete reading guide
Tuesday, October 2
The bitter end. Introduction to final essay assignment.
Begin to think about AFTA essay, so you can ask for help if necessary.
Wednesday, October 3
Harkness: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning. 30/30.
Read SHV, Chapter One.
Thursday, October 4
Slaughterhouse V, Exposition.
Study for Vocabulary Quiz, Lists 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Friday, October 5
Vocabulary Quiz, Lists  One -Four
Work on AFTA final essay. Due Monday.

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