Monthly Archives: April 2021

Continue prep work on your assigned section of the Toker articler (in your common doc) to prepare for the presentation next class (if you haven’t presented yet). Feel free to contact each other (on chat or any other way) to … Continue reading →

1. Read “The Son” and “Om.”2. Write Journal #5 about each chapter and post it on Jupiter Forum. Stay in the same role for both chapters and provide feedback and quotes from each chapter.3. Know the first 20 vocabulary words … Continue reading →

Read the scholarly article Broodings on the Rhetoric of Lolita Article (the kind you will encounter in college sooner than you think and will have to use in your research papers, so, it may be challenging in some ways). It is … Continue reading →

Read the next two chapters, “By the River” and “The Ferryman” and write Journal #4 on BOTH chapters. Submit it on Jupiter before class begins (as usual). Indicate your ROLE on the top of the response. Here’s a PDF version … Continue reading →

1. Finish reading Lolita. 2. Read the the afterward as well: “Vladimir Nabokov on a Book Entitled Lolita.”2. So…what do you think? Think about an issue, angle, sentence, bigger idea, emotion, critique etc. you’ll want to share in class. As always, use relevant … Continue reading →

1. Read “Among the People” and “Samsara.”2. Write Journal #3 in your role. Everyone, but especially Literary Luminaries, should pay close attention to how Hesse uses metaphors and Homeric (epic) similes. Stay very very far away from Sparknotes and its ilk. A … Continue reading →

1. Read Lolita chapters 28, 29, 30, 31, 32.2. Note some “grand” realizations, confessions, and your emotional reactions to Humbert’s language in these chapters. The more you do this, the more material you’ll have to consult on the day we … Continue reading →

1.  Read “Kamala.”2. Read the directions for your next assigned role in the model journal sheet. If it helps, read the actual model response for your next role. Then, write Journal #2 in your assigned role (posted in Jupiter Forum). Because the … Continue reading →

1. Read chapters 23, 24, 25, 26, 27.2. Note places in the text that reveal the ways in which Humbert copes with losing Lolita and/or anything else.3. Compose one strong quiz question (fair and factual based on a detail that … Continue reading →

1. Read the next two chapters, entitled “Gotama” and “Awakening.”2. Re-read the sheet with the model entries and roles specified in order to produce a good first entry. Review how the sample response is constructed for your particular role before writing your own.4. Write your first journal … Continue reading →