Tuesday, 4/30 - Fiddling while Rome burns?

• P&P

• While I check your J13, please take a minute and complete this survey concerning your commencement exercises. When you finish, please make sure your Nails, Lit Terms, Vocab, and Usage are all updated. If they are, please work on your resume or Hopkins poem.

• Discuss J13

• Over the next two days we will be reading the stories below. Please feel free to take notes, jot down questions, record ideas, and ask yourself, "How is this story 'modern'?"

The Battle of London's aftermath

• The Little Rascals, The Sandlot, you know the gangs you tried to start or joined when you were a kid . . . last year. Well, get ready for something (a gang) that's motivated by nothing (we'll explain later) by reading Graham Greene's (bio) "The Destructors" 

• "Should I stay or should I go?" Though England's punk band sent these sounds over the radio several decades ago, James Joyce's Evelin was asking the question long before. See what she ends up choosing as you read "Eveline" by James Joyce (bio)

• Ah, a fairy tale unlike any you've read before . . . unless you've read some of the original Brothers Grimm. Consider the moral of "Once upon a Time" by Nadine Gordimer (bio)

 HW:  

1. CWP Q4 - Resume (block) 
1. Please turn in a hard copy on the due date and also submit a soft copy to turnitin.com