To Alcatraz, Far, Far Away, and Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory We Go!

Hopefully from the response in class today, you are as excited to take a pilgrimage and construct a character as I am! Seventh hour will journey to Alcatraz as visitors, second our will travel to Far, Far Away to find their fairy godmother, and fourth hour will (finally!) win the golden ticket to see Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory in person! While I will be working on the overall prologue (need to brush up on my iambic pentameter and rhyming skills), you will be constructing a prologue for your individual character and a tale with a moral and entertainment value. In order to prep for both of these components, I will be meeting with you tomorrow to discuss your character (I need the dirt to write that prologue). If you were absent and don't have a character yet, no worries! You will have the chance to sign-up during next class and work on the character background while I meet with the others.

To add to future plans beyond creative works, we will go over the district assessment MC (average 14/22), bring in a few more rounds of vocab, return to prompt writing (I've really been plugging characterization lately, haven't I?), bring in more MC practices, move into our next critical lens = feminist, look into the Romantic period, find out how Mary Wollstonecraft changed the tone of society towards women's education (or at least as much as she could in the late eighteenth century), and look at the (ill-advised) parenting style of Victor Frankenstein. That's pretty much third quarter in a nutshell. Fourth quarter will be your first full practice test, the Romantic poets and tone work, Wuthering Heights, and the second full practice test.

Otherwise, we are all about in the same place...

2: We have made our way through The Canterbury Tales, and we will talk about The Decameron's Federigo's Falcon after our character meetings in class. We will also share our allusion posters since time was not our friend today.

4: We are still in the midst of our frame stories, and you have The Pardoner's Tale and Federigo's Falcon to read for next class.

7: We have Boccaccio's Federigo's Falcon for next class - for those of you have already read the tale, some sad irony awaits that falcon.