Today we'll be reading "The Guilty Vicarage," the seminal essay by W.H. Auden on the whodunit genre. Complete The Guilty Vicarage Worksheet and dropbox it before the end of class today.

DOWNLOADS:
ARTICLE: "The Guilty Vicarage: Notes on the Detective Story, by an Addict" (DOC)
WORKSHEET: Guilty Vicarage In-class worksheet (DOC)

Next class we'll begin with the Whodunit Sleuth presentations. Email me your Powerpoint BEFORE class begins on Tuesday.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is the beginning of our Whodunit Unit. As part of this unit, you will complete a Whodunit Group Research Project, due December 4. You should download the following documents:

1. Whodunit Detectives Research Assignment (DOC)
2 Whodunit Team Research Worksheet -- blank
3. Whodunit Team Research Worksheet sample -- for Dupin

Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A2: Myers, Nabor, Orkwis, Josephson 
A3: Bugada, Greve, Himes

Father Brown (by G.K. Chesterton)
A2: Griffiths, Hanna, Hoderlein, Pappalardo
A3: King, Shaffer, Shade

Hercule Poirot (by Agatha Christie)
A2: Abeln, Asgian, Bruggeman, Bruns
A3: Kincaid, Reed, Kunkel
            
Miss Jane Marple (by Agatha Christie)
A2: Paz, Rieger, Schlueter, Schumacher
A3: Rumsey, Strottman, Wheat

Lord Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane (by Dorothy L. Sayers)
A2: Verilli, Zimmerman, Williams
A3: McCreary, Mills, Nymberg
          
Brother Cadfael (Ellis Peters)
A2: Smallwood, Worobetz, Voss, Wick

Today, you will begin reading Mark Haddon's Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and we'll begin our English Whodunit unit, which will also include a study of Sherlock Holmes' methods and a reading of The Hound of the Baskervilles.

For Wednesday -- Curious vocabulary + British terms quiz
For Friday -- have the book read in its entirety (comp quiz)

Download: Curious Incident Vocabulary List -- includes British terms and expressions
Link: Curious Incident Flashcard deck at Dictionary.com (Word Dynamo)

Full searchable text of book in PDF:
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (2002)

Short Story Encapsulations Due Today
All media for your Short Story Video Encapsulations are due on Thursday, November
15. Make sure you have all video and sound/volume issues resolved before you turn in the
media. We will view the projects and discuss them in great depth the following class -- Monday, November 19.

These should be copied onto the X drive:
Teacher folders/Rose/2012 Encapsulation Videos/(either A2 or A3)

(Once you deposit your media, make sure you cna play it from that location. In other words, test it out.)

If, for whatever reason, you cannot copy your file(s) onto the X drive, you should give me your media on a flash drive. Any media not received on or before November 19 at 3:30 p.m. will be considered LATE and marked LATE.

For Monday
Finish up your re-telling of "The Nun's Priest's Tale" and dropbox it before the beginning of class on Monday.

The Monday when we return from break
Be prepared for unit exam. LRJs will be collected for grading.

Short Story Encapsulations Due on Thursday
All media for your Short Story Video Encapsulations are due on Thursday, November 15. Make sure you have all video and sound/volume issues resolved before you turn in the
media. We will view the projects and discuss them in great depth the following class -- Monday, November 19.

These should be copied onto the X drive:
Teacher folders/Rose/2012 Encapsulation Videos/(either A2 or A3)

If, for whatever reason, you cannot copy your file(s) onto the X drive, you should give me your media on a flash drive. Any media not received on or before November 19 will be considered LATE and marked LATE.

Canon's Yeoman's Tale
Required reading: Tale, including the prologue. You will have a quiz and a SIFT will be due. This is the final tale we'll be studying. Yes, there's a BBC animation of this one, too.

Next reading assignment: You may remember the BBC animation version of "The Nun's Priest's Tale" -- it's the one about Chanticleer the rooster, who gets captured by a wily fox. This is the reading assignment for Tuesday. As usual, a SIFT worksheet on the tale is due at the beginning of class.

An upcoming date to remember: November 15
All media for your Short Story Video Encapsulations are due on November 15. Make sure you have all video and sould/volume issues resolved before you turn in the media. We will view the projects and Discuss them in the following class.

(Hey, be sure to check out the previous post below on Word of the Week and Allusion of the Week.)

IRP Assignments for A2 class -- due December 18:
Rieger: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Josephson: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Paz: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Naber: Dracula by Bram Stoker
Bruggemann: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Hanna: 1984 by George Orwell
Worobetz: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Verrilli: The Trial by Franz Kafka
Abeln: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Williams: Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Zimmerman: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Asgian: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932) by Charles Norhoff and James Norman Hall
Schlueter: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Hoderlein: The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
Schumacher: The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
Smallwood: The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Bruns: Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Orkwis: The House on the Strand by Daphne DuMaurier
Griffiths: Empire in the Sun by J.G. Ballard
Wick: Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
Voss: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Myers: Atonement by Ian McEwan
Pappalardo: The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

IRP Assignments for A3 Class -- due Dec. 20
Rumsey: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Kunkel: A Passage to India by E.M. Forester
Reed: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Strotman: Dracula by Bram Stoker
Kincaid: 1984 by George Orwell
Mills: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Nymberg: Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Greve: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Shaffer: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Shade: The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
Wheat: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Bugada: Beowulf by the guy who wrote Beowulf
Himes: Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
King: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
McCreary: Empire of the Sun  by J.G. Ballard

Quarter 2 - Class 6

On Friday you will be taking The Canterbury Tales preliminary test, which includes an in-class essay with prompts to choose from The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Pardoner's Tale, and The Man of Law's Tale.

    Download: Canterbury Tales -- Preliminary Exam Study Guide

In order to prepare for the in-class essay, you will be completing an in-class theme and thesis worksheet. Read the directions. Dropbox at end of class.

    Download: Canterbury Tales -- Theme & Thesis Worksheet

Due Friday:
1. Your 3x5 notecard indicating your top three choices for the Independent Reading Project.
2. LRJ #3: The Repurcussions of Conversion