Share Your Thoughts

A bit of a break this week. Tell me what you are considering for your literary specialist. It does not need to be long or drawn out, I just want to know what things you might be considering. By the end of next week, you need to know, at least loosely, what you might be considering.

Rise, Lazarus!

http://www.usccb.org/bible/john/11


Here is the story of Lazarus from the Book of John. Read it, and find 3 literary devices in it. Next, find another story from the bible that you think a character from Crime and Punishment might like. Give us the gist of the story and explain why you think the character would like it.  Who would read them the story and why? The reader can be a character from this novel or can be any person, real or fictional.

I Swear I Didn't Do It!

Poems about Crime and Punishment


These poems are not about the novel, Crime and Punishment, rather they are about the subject. Choose one of the poems and explicate it here. Tell us what you think about it and how, if in any way it relates to one or several of the characters from our current reading.

I LOVE my Catholic School!

List three reasons why it is awesome to attend a Catholic School.
Make one constructive suggestion about how your school could be even better!

What Did the Nihilist Say to the Optimist?

Write an allegorical tale. I want you to include characters (at least two) from each list. Make sure you story follows Feytag's Triangle. You must have all of the elements of a good story!!! Have fun!

	belief
	faith
	optimism
	obedience nihilism repudiation atheism disorder

Switching Sides

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7lv8vshcny16lyv/LH26_3_Jennifer%20Fulwiler_Switching%20Sides_How%20I%20Came%20to%20Accept%20the%20Truth%20About%20Abortion.mp3?dl=0
Jennifer Fulwiler tells the story of her transition from pro choice to pro life. What is her argument? And be careful. You need to listen to the whole thing before you decide what you think her argument is. What rhetorical strategies does she use to make her argument? And is she successful or unsuccessful?

Be prepared to answer a few listening check questions on Monday.

Home Sweet Home!

“You can leave home all you want, but home will never leave you.” —Sonsyrea Tate Sonsyrea Tate’s statement suggests that “home” may be conceived of as a dwelling, a place, or a state of mind. It may have positive or negative associations, but in either case, it may have a considerable influence on an individual. Choose a novel or play in which a central character leaves home yet finds that home remains significant. Write a well-developed essay in which you analyze the importance of “home” to this character and the reasons for its continuing influence. Explain how the character’s idea of home illuminates the larger meaning of the work.

Choose a work from the list below or another appropriate novel or play of comparable literary merit. Do not merely summarize the plot. NOTICE THAT THE GREAT GATSBY is on here and THINGS FALL APART. But you can use ANY of these works. You choose!
 Absalom, Absalom!
All the Pretty Horses
Beloved Bleak House
Candide
The Cherry Orchard
The Country of the Pointed Firs
Fences
A Free Life: A Novel
The Glass Menagerie
The God of Small Things
 Going After Cacciato
The Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
 Home to Harlem
A House for Mr. Biswas
The House of Mirth
The House on Mango Street
The Inheritance of Loss
 Invisible Man
Jane Eyre
The Little Foxes
 Look Homeward, Angel
 The Namesake
Never Let Me Go
 The Piano Lesson
 The Poisonwood Bible
 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
 The Road Song of Solomon
 A Streetcar Named Desire
 Sula
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things Fall Apart
Wise Blood
 The Women of Brewster Place
 Wuthering Heights