Monday, 5.11 - Your high school career is careening; will it collapse?

• 3PO
• GUM: check your Bedford 25 exercises (#1-4)
• Finish Graham Greene's "The Destructors" and discuss the story with a neighbor in light of the following 20th century topics (take notes in your journal). Please refer to specific textual details to answer the questions:
1. Modernist desire to break away from (or destroy) established traditions. Is the author critiquing or condoning this tendency?
2. A quest to find fresh ways to view man's position or function in the universe. Does this story deal with new philosophies? How? Does the author critique or condone the new philosophy? How do you know?
3. Does the story contain any sick and twisted ironies? (think about how the story ends.) 
4. How can this story be read against the backdrop of the 20th century's rise of totalitarian regimes (dictatorships)? 

HW:

1.  (block) Poetry Recitation: G. M. Hopkins' "God's Grandeur." Please see me this week during free time to practice if you need to. I'd be happy to suggest some tips for your presentation.