By 3/14-3/15

All students should be to page 144 in The Alchemist and be working to finish the book over the weekend. By the end of the novel you should have 24 sticky quotes or the equivalent. 

Companion novels should be started next week to be finished (at the latest) over spring break.

No TFA draft will be accepted after Friday 3/15.

It is time to move on from Okonkwo, but I hope not from the understanding of his complexity as well as the knowledge of how colonization changed cultures. Most of you have engaged in a deep and thorough revision process which I hope has helped you learn about your own writing as you revisited, reworded, reworked and resubmitted (how's that for alliteration?). I am very proud of your efforts, your instinct, and your insight. Very nicely done.

Next week we will be working on more poems and our dream narratives which will be due at the end of next week. At that time we will also discuss your final choice project for your companion novel or your short story series (don't worry, I'll explain it when we get there).

Ms. B