EWC 4U1/7

::: DUE DATES :::

Complete the following reading assignment over the holidays:

I read ____________ (a novel, poem, short story, magazine article, or newspaper column).

If I was going to write a ________, I would ___________________________ .

If I was going to write a ________, I would not _________________________ .

-:- DUE on Mon, Jan 8, 07. -:-


Assignment #4 - the Postcard Story
-:- DUE on Fri, Jan 12, 07. -:-


Assignment #5 - based on Finding Forrester
-:- DUE on Weds, Jan 24, 07. -:-

EWC 4U1/7

Please check the Glee forum for copies of handouts and information about current assignments.

ENG 3U7

-:- IOP Schedule -:-

N.B., If you are scheduled to present and don't show up, you will receive a mark of 0.

Mon, Jan 15, 07 => Sam Keene -:- Sadman -:-

Weds, Jan 17, 07 => Melissa -:- Sarah Jo -:-

Fri, Jan 19, 07 => Cindy -:- Poornima -:-

Tues, Jan 23, 07 => Drew -:- Andy -:-

Thurs, Jan 25, 07 => TBA

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Reading Lolita In Tehran Culminating Activity:

An in-class writing assignment is scheduled for Tues, Jan 9, 07.

Instructions and handouts will be posted on the forum over the holidays.

ENG 3U7

Reading Lolita In Tehran

HOMEWORK (due Tues, Dec 12, 06):

• bring grammar worksheets -:- hand in at the beginning of class on Tuesday

• read to the end of Part II (page 153)

• answer questions for Part I (handout) and Part II (posted below) -:- follow the links (posted below) for background info on Nabokov -:-

NEXT DAY (Tues, Dec 12, 06):

• collect grammar worksheets on Tuesday -:- homework check -:- review work completed for Parts I and II

ENG 3U7

Reading Lolita In Tehran

Please complete the following assignment. It will be taken up in class on Tues, Dec 12, 06.

Nafisi's study group focuses on a group of specific writers. Background research on the various writers referenced in her text will enrich your experience with Reading Lolita in Tehran. Begin with the Nabokov's Lolita. Form an educated response as to why you think Nafisi chose to put Lolita in the title out of the all the other books referenced in her text. Do you think Nafisi chose and appropriate title for a memoir?

Resources:

http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/books/1999/nabokov/

http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/books/1999/nabokov/lolita/

ENG 3U7

Reading Lolita in Tehran: Part II.i

PART II - The Great Gatsby
Consistent with the Lolita chapter, you will have to do some background research on the main resource of Part II -- The Great Gatsby.

1. After researching The Great Gatsby, why do you think Nafisi chose to focus on this text in Part II of Reading Lolita in Tehran? What themes might Nafisi's memoir and The Great Gatsby share?

2. During the Gatsby trial Zarrin charges Mr. Nyazi with the inability to "distinguish fiction from reality" (128). How does Mr. Nyazi's conflation of the fictional and the real relate to theme of the blind censor? Describe similar instances within a democracy like Canada or the United States when art was censored for its "dangerous" impact upon society.

3. Compare Mahshid's feeling that she "owes" something to Tehran and belongs there to Mitra and Nassrin's desires for freedom and escape. Discuss how the changing and often discordant influences of memory, family, safety, freedom, opportunity and duty define our sense of home and belonging.

4. As we reach the halfway mark in Reading Lolita in Tehran, use the Glee forum as a place to discuss your own comments and opinions of the book thus far. Please sign your name at the bottom of each comment as some of you have some anonymous handles. I expect everyone to have at least ONE comment and ONE response to someone else's comment.

ENG 2D7

HOMEWORK (due Thurs, Dec 7, 06):

• Read your assigned scene at least 2x.

• Bring to class : questions about language -:- ideas for staging

There WILL be a homework check!!

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As of today, here are the topics for the Logs due on Thurs, Dec 13, 06:

Written in class:

1. Reflect on and write about how power changes hands--in the past, in the present, in totalitarian countries, in schools, and in families.

2. Think about a character you play in this scene: write about what this person is like. What does s/he hope to accomplish in this scene?


Assigned for homework:

1. In a few sentences, summarize the scenes you saw performed.

2. Read Hal's speech in I.ii. What do you think of Hal?

3. How does the word "imitation" resonate in the parts of the play that you've seen/read so far?

EWC 4U1/7

HOMEWORK:

• Revise & polish "Assignment #3 - The 5-minute Play." Use your rubric to check your work.
  

• Answer the "Self-Evaluation" questions outlined on your handout. Submit your responses w. assignment #3 at the beginning of class on Mon, Dec 13, 06.

• Assignments must be organized and stapled when you arrive to class; assignments submitted after the 1st minute of class will be considered LATE.
  

• In the writing/publishing world, writers must follow each publisher/publication's Submission Guidelines in order for their work to be considered. Submissions that do not follow the following format will NOT be accepted ===> rubric (TOP) -:- polished copy -:- drafts -:- self-evaluation questions/responses (BOTTOM)

truth in fiction

Thomas Bernhard:
"What matters is whether we want to lie or to tell the truth and write the truth, even though it never can be the truth and never is the truth."