…involving faces without lips, raised eyebrows, and tight frowns.  Thanks guys.

We went over the plans for each of your essays last week.  Continue sorting through the quotations from your books, and we’ll begin thesis statements/essay building next week.  If you haven’t begun collecting quotations, you have an extra hour today!

See you Monday.

1.  Go here.

2.  Find something cool, bring it to class tomorrow.

3.  Choose a book from this period:

• Charles Dickens’s The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1839)
• Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847)
• Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights (1847)
• George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860)
• Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (1861)
• Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
• Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883)
• Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Grey (1890)
• Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
• H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine (1895)
• H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896)
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897)—Flip through this before you choose. It’s better than the movies, but not the same.
• H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds (1898)
• Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1902)—More modernist than Victorian, but worth including.

If, for some reason, you have chosen to write an essay instead of creating a screenplay, you must choose from one of these two topics:

• If the arrival of the messenger is equivalent to R&G’s birth, what is the meaning and purpose of their life, which is shown in its entirety?
• Contrast the player’s comments about death with Guil’s.

Also, please let me (and your group mates) know that you will be writing this instead of participating in the project.

Sorry about the break in the image…

I’m wasting away here, guys.

Your assignment today was to begin annotating Martin Luther King’s "Letter from Birmingham Jail."  This is a near-perfect example of a solid argument, one that carefully balances the rhetorical triangle while employing a myriad of rhetorical figures. You’ve gotta love that.

Your job for tonight is to annotate passages you find interesting (see your handout "AP Review Through Vocabulary" for why this is important, as well as how to do it), and mark the appeals to emotion, to logic, and from Dr. King’s character.  (Highlighters work well for this.)

We will discuss our reactions in class tomorrow.