Apologies for not posting yesterday. We analyzed this article and looked at how the author used sentence variety, punctuation, and repetition to enhance his ideas.

Then we finished watching Hamlet.

Here’s what we’re doing today:

Tomorrow is your final literature circle meeting. While some of you may not be submitting reader’s journals you should all have notes complete highlighting the insights you will be bringing to tomorrow’s meeting. You also need to have your five discussion questions completed.

As you know, your culminating task for this is an essay. To help you begin planning for your essay, I’m going to have you create a concept map that illustrates what each literary theory you examined revealed about your text. This will be your consolidation piece for this week’s meeting as well as pre-writing work for your essay. Here’s the plan for the next few days:

Wednesday April 25: literature circle preparation/concept mapping/Hamlet planning

Thursday April 26: Final literature circle meeting

Monday April 30: Concept mapping and conferencing

Tuesday May 1: Thesis approval

We will have some additional time to work on this in class and we will agree on a deadline together.