Waiting For Godot

Here's your chance to record your thoughts about the Samuel Beckett play Waiting For Godot.

Beloved

Please post your thoughts about Toni Morrison's Beloved here. If you are posting a summary of class discussion, be sure to include the date of the discussion.

The Stranger

Please post your additional comments about Camus's The Stranger here. If you are summarizing or responding to a particular day's discussion, please mention the date. Feel free also to add comments about the book even if they are not connected to a class discussion.

Lit Essay #3 Plans

By Friday, January 23, please post your plans for your next independent study. Your comments should include:

1. The title of the book you read
2. The critical approach you plan to use
3. The assertion you will make about the book's meaning or quality
4. Any questions you have

The paper is due Wednesday, February 4.

Crime and Punishment Thematic Topics

Here are the topics we brainstormed in class on November 13:

Crime and Punishment is a book about…
· Life
· Guilt
· Crime
· Punishment
· Chance vs. coincidence
· Illusion vs. reality
· Internal conflict of man(insanity)
· Drunkenness
· The Angry Russians ft. T-Sale
· Emotions
· Cycles of poverty
· Class conflict/social order
· Self-deception and justification for immorality
· Hats
· Pride
· Sacrifice
· Love
· Philosophy
· The importance of family
· Prostitution
· Painful deaths
· Morality (deep…)
· Conscience
· Dreams
· Socialism
· Drunken Russians
· Science vs. religion
· Biblical allusions
· Carnal nature of man
· Role of women
· Violence
· Infatuation

Crime and Punishment -- Part 1

If you were assigned to record a summary of class discussion, please post it here. Be sure to note the date of the discussion and the section of the book we discussed. You may also post any ideas you didn't get to share in discussion, or respond to others' blog comments.

Sonnets

I invite you to post your original sonnets here. In addition, you may want to comment (even interpret?) some of the sonnets that your classmates have posted.