Tuesday, February 2, 2010

This Week - February 1-5: Welcome to Contemporary Literature!

This is you senior elective course for the second half of the year and it is going to be a great one!
The course is a comprehensive study of contemporary writers, literature and film from 1950 to the present. Throught the mediums of writing a film, we will explore a variety of contemporary issues and relate them to the human experience. Please see the course syllabus for requirements and works to be studied. Check the blog if you are absent and need the assignment.
This week's schedule is below:
Monday-Tuesday: Course syllabus and overview. We will also be reading a contemporary story by Margaret Atwood titled "Happy Endings" as well as answering some discussion questions. This is your first home work assignment.
Wednesday-Friday: We will begin discussing some background information on our first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.

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