Break work: Read 15 pages/day Ragtime, by Doctorow (create Windows for every 30 pages)
Rewrites – Coulombe-Twain Essay
1. make edits from my comments
2. have PEER EDITS done –
3. make edits AFTER their edits
4. turn in 3rd Draft 4-27-11 (those on college field trip must e-mail before noon all work)
5. update Goodreads = 4 text including “Finn”, ABC, The Eternal Smile and “Inherit” – and/or any other IRBs read during these last three weeks since finishing Huck Finn.
6. Portfolios - revise at least ONE more or write another three mini-reflections for May 18 due date.
7. for those looking to get ahead of the game, you will have to read an IRB from the following:
The Color of Water, by James McBride
Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
Fences, by August Wilson
Fences, by August Wilson
– The Bread Givers, by Anzia Yezierska
– The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois
“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” ~ Lloyd Alexander
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