Welcome back. Congratulations on your excellent English 12 exam results. For more practice on the multiple choice questions visit the BC provinical exam site.
This weekend, three groups will finish preparing their responses to Act 2 questions. We look forward to your presentations Monday.
Homework: Read Act 2. Make sure that you have a sense of the extent of the tragedy. What is revealed about Willy? What is his plight? How does he overcome it? How do you make sense of his tragic death? Why can't he surmount the American dream (in the way Biff has) in order to live the life he truly craves?
Your answers to these questions can (ideally) create more questions. Beware the pat response. Beware fixing Willy into a slot. The best thing to do with literature is to notice--notice syntax, shifts in mood, character changes, language, juxtapositions, paradoxes, character foils, symbols, where you are drawn in, similarities to other characters in great books or plays you have read.
Bring any questions, curiosities, discoveries to class on Monday so that you feel ready for the test on Wednesday.
After this unit, we'll do poetry and Portrait of the Artist. You'll have time to do close readings of several of Joyce's passages as well as have opportunities to share your findings in small groups.
We will also be practicing some more of the multiple choice sections for the AP exam.
Lovely to see you.
Sincerely,
Ms. Stenson
I mean, thanks, eh!!!
