These are the planned times for AP Practice multiple choice over the break: Monday, April 9th: 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 10th: 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 11th: Dead Poets Society @ Fireside, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 12th: 7:00 p.m. Sunday, April 15th: 1:00 p.m. (Other than the DPS meeting, we will meet at school, in delightful […]
Quick note. For those of you still working on blogs (and that means everyone who has missing assignments), I think I have finally found a really easy system to use. If you are not using the WordPress blogs in the separate folder, you can write blog entries by clicking on "MyBlog Dashboard" on the menu […]
For the revisions for "The Letter" by Jane Kenyon, once you upload them, I will try to correct as I receive them. If you go back to the screen where you uploaded the files, you will see a new folder called "Evaluated AP Essays." If your essay is there, it means I have looked at, […]
Even though it's probably quite likely that Holden Caufield would regard Henry David Thoreau as one of the world's great phonies, it's interesting to think about where Holden fits in the pantheon of great American non-conformists. In a literary tradition loaded with celebrations of defiant indiviudalism, Holden stands apart, as a uniquely critical voice challenging […]
I really enjoyed the discussions today about Catcher in the Rye, though I found myself feeling a real sense of melancholy, as I often do when I think too much about Holden. Everything about his character, from his dishonesty to his instinctive fear of adults suggests someone who has been deeply hurt, perhaps irredeemably so. […]