This Week

In class I'll be bringing you to the library to get a copy of our next novel. We'll finish it in two weeks, and then proceed with the textbook. You'll need to read 30-50 pages every night. I'd like to see a blog by Wednesday on your first impressions of the book, in which you demonstrate your keen literary understanding and unique insights into the work. By Friday I'd like a follow-up blog entry in which you continue themes established in your first.

Two Non-fiction Texts for this week

Ask I mentioned earlier this month, The Age of Discovery is posted on Sharepoint. Read it and write a blog in which you connect it to Heart of Darkness.

Likewise, you should read the prologue and Chapter 19 of King Leopold´s Ghost. Write a blog that also links the book to Heart of Darkness.

White Sepulchre

Finish Heart of Darkness by Friday.

Write one blog entry Tuesday and one blog entry Thursday.

Having trouble reading? Try the mp3s.

Gastby News!

You wouldn't think there's much news about a novel almost a hundred years old, but there is.

Read and comment if you like.

The Age of Discovery

I've posted a chapter of Richard Holmes' fantastic book The Age of Discovery, a work of non-fiction, on Sharepoint. I believe it will contextualize the idea of voyage in Coleridge, and perhaps even Conrad.

AP Exam Date Confirmed

The AP English Lit exam will take place Thursday May 5th. Make sure you cancel any plans you may have the night prior (you want to be well-rested for the exam).

Getting Dark

Okay, okay, I can't help it: things are dark. It's not my fault this classic by Joseph Conrad, probably one of the most famous and renowned novels of the 19th century, comes up everywhere.

This week read until page 100 and write three blog entries united by theme (i.e, an entry about imagery, an entry about Buddhism, and entry about the geography of the Congo in the novel).