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Assignments:

Assignments:. Note: We are writing an in-class poetry essay Friday. If you will be gone, make arrangements to write this essay BEFORE your absence.

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  1. Assignments: • Note: We are writing an in-class poetry essay Friday. If you will be gone, make arrangements to write this essay BEFORE your absence. • A: Annotate Updike poem - beautifully ugly! Create outline for prompt:TYPE a well-organized essay in which you discuss Updike's use of rhetorical strategies such as diction, symbolism, and irony to create the tone and meaning of the poem. Turn in outline and annotations TUESDAY. No late work. SEE WEBSITE FOR PARTICULARS.

  2. The Road Cormac McCarthy

  3. Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of our age (William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and Carson McCullers are the other 3). He is frequently considered America’s greatest living novelist Compared by modern reviewers to other greats: Ernest Hemingway –plain style, tough, masculine William Faulkner -- Southern gothic; expansive and complex syntax James Joyce – range of wordplay, fervent attention to language and meaning

  4. McCarthy now lives in the Tesuque, New Mexico, area, north of Sante Fe, with his wife, Jennifer Winkley, and their son, John. (The Road is dedicated to his son who was about 10 when McCarthy wrote it.) He guards his privacy. In one of his few interviews (with The New York Times), McCarthy is described as a "gregarious loner" and reveals that he is not a fan of authors who do not "deal with issues of life and death…I don't understand them," he said. "To me, that's not literature. A lot of writers who are considered good I consider strange.” Private Life

  5. McCarthy prefers the company of scientists to authors. McCarthy remains active in the academic community of Santa Fe and spends much of his time at the Santa Fe Institute, which was founded by his friend, physicist Murray Gell-Mann. A Man of Science

  6. All the Pretty Horses was first to become a public sensation when published in 1992 Part of the Border Trilogy, which chronicles two young men and their coming of age in the Southwest and Mexico Blood Meridian (1985) Time magazine’s 100 greatest novels of modern era The Road (2005)Pulitzer Prize No Country for Old Men (2007)movie adaptation wins 4Academy Awards including best picture Novels

  7. Probing the text – Day 1 • Objectives: To use “probing the text” close reading technique to explore the beginning of the novel  to develop longer and better essays. • Follow along as we listen to the passage from the beginning of the novel. (track 2, 3:10) • Mark words/phrases that strike you as important or interesting. Mark as many as you wish. (Not text rendering.)

  8. WTJ: Start a new section for The RoadLabel this page: Road #1:Create a T-chart

  9. Still under “Road #1”: Focused free Write • As I give you a sentence starter, write it down and continue the thought until I give you the next sentence starter. (This will be public writing and you may sharing it, but don’t worry about perfection –just free write in response to the sentence starters.) • Please do not talk during this process, just write until the exercise ends. • The purpose of the prompts is to get you to write multiple ideas in different ways – longer, better, deeper, more complex….

  10. “I am thinking that……” • “What I am trying to say is……” • “In other words…..” • “This passage reminds me of….” • “I am thinking this way because…”

  11. Re-read and underline key words/ phrases from your own free write. • Share with your seat partner. • Share with the class. The purpose of the prompts is to get you to write multiple ideas in different ways – longer, better, deeper, more complex….

  12. The Road #2: Generate Questions • Objective: To get to the meaning of the work as a whole by generating meta-questions the work addresses. • “McCarthy insists that literature must dare to address the serious questions.” (John Cant) • As you read, make a list of “serious questions” that this piece of literature addresses. Bring them to class on Thursday, 3-14.

  13. Bleak and Beautiful • Please do NOT watch the movie version until after the AP test. • Please do not “pray to little god” aka the Internet – we can do this. YOU can do this! • Please finish the book by next Thursday. (It will take about 4 to 6.5 hours to read plus time for generating meta-questions.)

  14. The Road by Cormac McCarthy • Check out a copy. Write your name inside the front cover. • Read the back cover. • Read the praise blurbs in the front.

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