Today: Unit 2 test, plus I collected the good copy and draft of the Lear essay and the quote log.
Thursday: Hand in your Lear notes. No need to type them but organize them with headings and sub-headings by act and scene. Marks awarded for insight and completeness.
Thursday: Bring the edited copies of the poems you wrote when the Writing 12 students were here.
Take your name off of the poems as the BCTELA contest is judged blindly. I'll have you fill in a cover sheet so bring your address, city, postal code, phone number and email address.
Also, have the two poems on your email as we'll be going to the computer lab during the second half of the class to send them off to magazines in the States. You will need an electronic copy of a picture of yourself for one of the magazines. You will also need a bio. 1 to 2 sentences about yourself.
Finally: If you wish to enter The Claremont Review contest, bring 2 hard copies of the poems (no name on the poems) and a cheque or cash ($20.00) made out to The Claremont Review. (I can also charge your account). The money supports student writing. You get a subscription for your fee and a chance to win 1,000 in prizes!! Many SMUS students have won in the past.
Or . . . . If you would like to submit to The Claremont Review (no contest $) visit www.theclaremontreview.ca and read their submission guidelines. You can hand me the poems, the letter, the SASE, Thursday (or when you get back if you are away Thursday) and I'll put it all into an envelope and mail it for you.
Lots to do on Thursday. Please be prompt and organized.
If you are away Thursday, you can do the BCTELA when you return and your Lear notes. You can do the two American magazines from home though.
Google Aerie International and hit submit.
Google Polyphony HS and hit submit.
Send in your poems.
Good luck.
You may also submit to The Claremont Review but you will have missed the contest deadline. Submitting means you could be published in the fall issue. It pays $10.00 per page and $50.00 for cover art.
Independent Novel:
Make sure that you take your novel home with you (especially if you want to get ahead). We'll be reading a chapter a night (sometimes more) when you return so if you can get ahead of the game, yay!
You'll be writing an essay on your novel. You may want to visit spark notes before you start to see what the key themes, motifs, and characters are. You can choose a topic and post-it key quotes as you read. You will be discussing your novel in class with your peers, creating a quotation log and then writing an in-class essay. You'll be able to bring in your introduction (and have me edit the intro) and you may bring in your key quotations, but that is all.
Deadline: May 30 or 31 (depending on when we have Lit).
