Students listened to "Pink and White" by Frank Ocean - while we didn't discuss the lyrics at length, they were introduced to classical allusion, through a reference (with multiple possible levels) to the goddess of tragedy, Melpomene, and a discussion about her children (half bird / half woman) potentially connected to the sirens of the sea (the pictures of harpies were not the correct vision - more like women with wings)
Students read their personal novels.
Many students did not have their homework ready for the class - of those who did, many completed them in a very perfunctory manner, without even using full sentences. In future, unless otherwise indicated, please include:
- Full sentences
- Re-phrase the question in the answer
- Follow rules for the mechanics of language (punctuation, capitalization and sentence structure)
- Connect a quotation to your answer, and have the page number noted
- Ensure clear pronoun use, by including a character's name/title, before switching to "he" or "they"
- Only write in 1st-person when you are being asked for your personal opinion or feeling
Students discussed the questions from last class in small groups, then with the class as a whole.
We discussed point of view, the concept of an unreliable narrator etc.
HMWRK: Ensure you have a list of plenty of pieces of evidence regarding sanity/insanity (perhaps with evidence from the text) for the start of your next class (as per the sheet!)
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