English 9 Class Notes
Freshmen, I reviewed the details of the final again and all of you concurred that you understood the expectations. I’ll look forward to your success on Thursday.
We watched several clips from the film adaptation of Of Mice and Men. I wish we’d had time to view it in its entirety with a more critical eye to compare and contrast Gary Sinise’s vision of John Steinbeck’s drama to the latter’s original, but the entire film is available for screening online. And here it is:
I’ll leave some final thoughts here later in the week or the beginning of next, but now I encourage you to prepare as best you can for your composition on Thursday.
See you then.
English 9 Class Notes
Objectives: Freshmen identified and explained literary concepts in a novel.
Freshmens, we continued our novel today, and we took our study outside. We needed the change of environment the grassy areas between the buildings offered, although I wasn’t so keen with the romantic literature-in-great-outdoors image it provided to curious onlookers.
For your enrichment, here’re three scenes from a dramatization of our novel by Steppenwolf for Young Adults. They’re short; have a look.
How does Esperanza compare to the protagonists of the other short texts we began the quarter with? Think that over as we wind down the brief text.
Have a fine weekend and don’t forget your homework.