Welcome!

Junior English. Thu, Aug 13th, 2015 at 6:22 am

Hope your first days are going well. We began yesterday with Harlan Ellison’s “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman.” Hope you enjoyed it.

I asked you to note anything that stood out to you, and we’ll continue that discussion today. The goal (as it always is with annotations) is to keep a log of things that might be important to you later, and to suss out the author’s meaning in the form of themes, etc. “What makes something important, you ask?” The ultimate answer is simple: if it helps you understand the work, or if you use it in a paper. You’ll only know if something is important after you’ve read and mulled over a work, so mark anything that stands out to you; the only way you can screw up your annotations is to not do them.

We should be on to our next reading today as well, but I haven’t decided which it’ll be. We will write over three or four of the short stories in a few days, so see above if your copy of Harlequin is blank.

It is going to be a great year. Stop by the grade book explanation page if you haven’t. And, as always, email or comment below if you have any questions.

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