Checking Out

For those with check-out sheets, you need to bring in a list of all the books you read this academic year. In parenthesis write down the location of each book.

For example:

The Awakening (returned to the EVL)
Hamlet (returned to the EVL)
The Parable of the Sower (can't find)
Kindred (returned)


Then I will stamp your sheet.

Senior Announcement

Please note the previous blog entry posted last week in which it explains your final exam.

After the Exam

When the exam is finished we'll be working on a final project together. After the exam when I am not here you may begin work on one of the following activities. If you have an idea for something you'd like to do more and is LITerary come speak with me for approval.

Seniors: Seniors must imagine they have been invited to read the Class of 2017 a poem. As experts in poetry, you will choose one of these forms to write your poem in: sonnet, villanelle, sestina. It may be an ode, an elegy, or a lyric poem. This is the corresponding rubric.

Keep in mind your performance will be graded rather than your actual poem, so you'll want to practice your performance.


Juniors: Choose one of the following options. You´ll be assessed once formatively and during our final exam day summatively. You can choose to work in a group of 2-3 if applicable.

- Translate a short story or poem or series of poems (length will be approved by teacher).

- Create a graphic novel of a short story. You can use computer software on campus for this, however I prefer people that are more artistically inclined do so.

- Create a graphic novel of a few poems by the same poet.

- Create a zine.

- Adapt a full poem to a full song.

- Write a sonnagram

- Write a song with lyrics.

- Create a new version of a short story we´ve read.

- Create a short film version of a short story we've read together.

- Read a series of graphic novels by the same author (Lynda Barry, Alan Moore, Alice Bedchel (mature content), Charles Burns (mature content))

- Create a series of concrete poems or sound poems with a motif.

- Purchase and read the modern version of Pride and Prejudice, Eligible

- Read Margaret Atwood´s The Handmaid´s Tale and watch the new TV series based on it.

-Watch and write movie reviews of several films about poetry (parental permission needed due to mature content of films) Kill All Your Darlings, Howl, Dead Poet´s Society, Paterson, Total Eclipse, Bright Star

- (Whole class only) Perform a one-act play (comedy or tragedy) only for other Lit sections. (Zoo Story, All in the Timing, God by Woody Allen)

-  Purchase and play the video game narrative everyone is talking about, Gone Home. You can either write a brief essay (2-3 pages) that analyzes the video game, or create an analytic walk through video that focuses on one part of the story. You can play the video game in class.

- Purchase and play the video game narrative everyone is talking about, Walden. You can either write a brief essay (2-3 pages) that analyzes the video game, or create an analytic walk through video that focuses on one part of the story. You can play the video game in class.