Hemingway Assignments #1


Assignment Sheet
Voice and Vision, Period Four
August 30 – October 5, 2012

At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera. But it was checked and in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army.

Date
Class
Homework
Thursday, August 30
Introduction. Administrative Trivia.
Paradox and Ambiguity, combined with close reading.
Log onto blog for the first time. Reconsider the summer reading to prepare for a quiz and to find 3 passages that are confusing, ambiguous or paradoxical
Friday, August 31
Summer Reading Quiz.
Write response to Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime. Due Tuesday in class.
Monday,  September 3
Labor Day: NO SCHOOL
Write response to Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime. Due Tuesday in class.
Tuesday, September 4
Summer Reading Response Due. Discussion: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.  Introduction to Hemingway
Read AFTA to page 27. Complete reading guide.
Wednesday, September 5
Odd Wed: NO CLASS

Read AFTA to page 45. Complete reading guide.
Thursday, September 6
Close reading of Chapter One. Exposition of character.
Study for Vocabulary Quiz, List One.
Friday, September 7
Vocabulary Quiz, List One
Games and war. Character in exposition.
Read AFTA through page 78. Complete reading guide.
Monday, September 10
Juxtaposition, objective correlative, icebergs and exposition
Read AFTA through page 116. Complete reading guide.
Tuesday, September 11
X-Period: NO CLASS
Read AFTA through page 116. Complete reading guide.
Wednesday, September 12
Harkness: 30 minutes to prepare, 30 minutes to discuss.
Read AFTA through page 159. Complete reading guide.
Thursday, September 13
What can we learn from the horse races?  The return to the front.
Study for Vocabulary Quiz, Lists One and Two
Friday, September 14
Vocabulary Quiz, Lists One and Two
Have we really left the front?
Read AFTA through page 202. Complete reading guide.
Monday, September 17
 Rosh Hashanah: NO SCHOOL
Read AFTA through page 202. Complete reading guide.
Tuesday, September 18
Introduction to the Hemingway Parody contest.
Parody due Monday. What has changed at the front?
Read AFTA through page 233. Complete reading guide.
Wednesday, September 19
Odd Wed: NO CLASS

Read AFTA through page 233. Complete reading guide.
Thursday, September 20
The retreat and FH’s desertion.
Study for Vocabulary Quiz, Lists One, Two and Three.
Friday, September 21
Vocabulary Quiz, Lists One, Two and Three.
Work on Hemingway parody, due on Monday.
Monday, September 24
Hemingway parody due in class.
Read AFTA through page 252. Complete reading guide.
Tuesday, September 25
What’s changed in Book 4?
No Homework

Wednesday, September 26
Yom Kippur:NO SCHOOL
Read AFTA through page 285. Complete reading guide.
Thursday, September 27
Lots of close reading of ridiculously famous passages.
No Homework
Friday, September 28
Count Greffi’s “wisdom.”
Read AFTA through page 305. Complete reading guide.
Monday, October 1
Where’s the foreshadowing?

Finish AFTA. Complete reading guide.
Tuesday, October 2
The bitter ending.
Begin to think about AFTA essay, so you can ask for help if necessary.
Wednesday, October 3
Odd Wed: NO CLASS
Read SHV, Chapter One.
Thursday, October 4
Slaughterhouse V, Exposition.
Study for Vocabulary Quiz, Lists 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Friday, October 5
Vocabulary Quiz, Lists
One- Four
Work on AFTA final essay.

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