Friday, August 27

Thanks to you all for a good first week. I feel really good about how classes have gone and look forward to the rest of the semester.

Freshmen: Today we shared your found poems and focused on the idea of creative response. Your task is to write a poem that is a creative response to Langston Hughes's poem "Mother to Son" where you write from the point of view of the son. This requires you to make many interesting decisions as both a reader and a writer - who is this son, how does he respond to his mother's advice, how old is he, does he retain her metaphor (analogy, actually) or create his own? Your poem is due Monday. Read for 20 minutes this weekend and bring your vocab book to class on Monday as well.

Sophomores: We continued viewing the interview between Campbell and Moyers; your homework this weekend is to read the introduction to the Tao te Ching (quiz on Monday), find two creation myths from various cultures and print them and bring them Monday, and bring your vocab book for a diagnostic exam on Monday.

CNF: We continued our Wait Wait game prep - we will finish it on Monday and play on Wednesday; be sure to have a copy of Gladwell's Blink on Wednesday.