STOP EMAILING ME!!!!!

My policy for rounding grades can be found on your syllabus.  Please refer to that if you have any questions regarding that procedure.  I will not forget to do it, nor will I round arbitrarily; if your grade meets the requirement,  you will receive the bump.  If your grade does not meet it, you will not.   It is a very clearly stated policy, it should need no explanation.

Poetry Project

There are still several of you who have not given me your poet’s name.  You have until midnight tonight to do so, or else you will lose points on your project.  Do not wait until the last minute because I will need to approve it via email or blog, and I go to bed at a reasonable time.

Many of you can not afford to lose points on this…there are only 10 days left in the semester…be vigilant about due dates…

Please come to class with this prepared for tomorrow.

You will need 5 sheets of paper, folded like we always do for annotations.  You will be doing a partner read, but both people need their own annotation sheets.  You will not have time in class to prepare this.

 

Guided Annotations

pg. 576

*Is the setting of the story in the past or the future?  Cite textual evidence to support your answer.

*Why do you think certain words are capitalized?

pg 577

*What does the style of writing remind you of.  Give examples from the text to support your answer.

pg 578

*Why do you think it is forbidden to go east?

pg 579

*Make a text to text connection.  Include evidence from the text to support your answer.

pg 580

*What is the narrator’s name?  Does this surprise you?  Why or why not.

*Has your about the setting from page one changed?  Why or why not?  Use textual evidence to support your answer.

*What has destroyed the Place of the Gods.  Use textual evidence to support your answer.

pg 581

*Give further evidence from the text to support your answer from page 580 about the Place of the Gods.

*What sorts of things does John find in the Place of the Gods?  Use textual evidence to support your answer.

*Stop reading at the end of page 581 and make a prediction about the end of the story using textual evidence to support your answer.

pg 582

*Summarize this page.

pg 583

*What sorts of things does John discover at the Dead Place.

pg 584

Describe John’s dream.

pg 585

*Analyze the following quote “I knew the reason for the Dead Places but I did not see why it had happened.  It seemed to me it should not have happened, with all the magic they had.”  What are the implications of this quote?

*What is the last thing John finds in the Dead Place?  Use textual examples to support your answer.

*What does John realize while he is in the Dead Place?

pg 586

*Connect this story to anther text we have read.  Use textual evidence to support your answer.

*What is the Place of the Gods?  What clues were left for us along the way?  Did you see it coming?