Assignments for week of Oct. 29

Check in / Schedule Conferences as needed:
     --Tragic Characters Comparison Essay (due Friday)

Intro to The Bean Trees
     --Reading Assignments

• Chapts. 1 - 2 -- due Monday, Oct. 29
• Chapt. 3  -- due Tuesday
• Chapt 4 -- due Thursday
• Chapts. 5 - 6 -- due Monday, Nov. 5
• Chapts. 7 - 8 -- due Tuesday, Nov. 6 (plus a total of 8 total double-entries)
• Chapts. 9 - 10 -- due Wednesday
• Chapts 11 - 12 -- due Thursday
• Chapts. 13 - 14 -- due Friday
• Chapts. 15 - 17 -- due Tuesday, Nov. 13

     --Double-entry Journal:  You are asked to keep a double-entry journal of 4 - 6 entries for each set of two chapters.  The left column of each entry is a quote or a paraphrase.  The right column is your analysis.  Analysis may take the form of comments, connections, predictions, or questions.  Connections may take the form of (a) a personal connection; relating the excerpt to personal experience or observation; (b)  a connection to another text; or (c) a connection to the world.
(aka "text to self;" "text to text;" "text to world" connections.)  Include a page number with each entry..

Shakespeare, "Sonnet 97"  & PAWS