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Greetings seniors, There are virtually countless resources for studying Shakespeare’s plays, so please don’t view this as a complete list. Also, remember that in college it is expected that you will be doing research and bringing your ideas to the class discussion. Please select one or more of these resources to read and discuss DIAGNOSING […]

Neruda, Pablo. The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems. Ed. Mark Eisner. San Francisco: City Lights, 2004. Print. Ninh, Bao. The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam. Trans. Frank Palmos. New York: Pantheon, 1995. Print. Murakami, Haruki. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. Trans. Jay Rubin. New York: Vintage International, 1998. Print.   Use one of the […]

Dear seniors, Last week (Thursday and Friday) I asked you to read your junior year IB written assignment that you wrote for either Ms. Synhorst or me. From that reading, you were asked to create a new outline with an emphasis on “making a point” in each of your topic sentences. Also, I asked you […]

Seniors, Please arrive at room A9 for your scheduled commentary. When you enter, you’ll find a table with resources for preparing your commentary. You’ll also find several manila envelopes. Please select only one manila envelope, which contains your poem and instructions for the commentary. I expect you to study for this assessment. That includes rereading […]

Dear Seniors, Here you will find the individual-oral-commentary-schedule-2017 for January 12-19. There will not be a reschedule; you’ll need to arrive at the specific date and time indicated. Thanks for all of your hard work, and I look forward to your best ideas! Kind Regards, Mr. Coey

Nikki Giovanni’s Language, Style, Technique, and Structure Language: “Black” “Honkies” “Revolution” Style: Colloquial language profanity Irony (verbal) Hyperbole Prose poems Allusions to black artists/leaders Cathartic, purging of emotions Motif of Black beauty and Black Power Racism Feminism, poems about women’s issues Angry, reflective tones Dedication of poems Black vs. white conflict Black vs. negro Black […]

Greeting all! We continue to have thought-provoking discussions and insightful observations about African-American poet, Nikki Giovanni, and the historical times in which she wrote and published. To further support our research of her, I would like to offer these resources: Nikki Giovanni Biography on Poetry Foundation Giovanni reads her poems Giovanni reads her poems and is interviewed […]

Greetings Seniors, For Monday and Tuesday of next week, we are practicing our IOC discussion using these questions: the-great-gatsby-discussion-questions-for-the-ioc Please come prepared with an 1 1/2 page formal outline of your commentary (like we have practiced in class). Include the following: Thesis statement Topics Concrete details Commentary   Have a great weekend! Mr. Coey  

Dear Seniors, The “Roaring 20’s” was a time of great wealth for some privileged Americans, and a time of great hardship for others. Wall Street speculation led to a series of financial market collapses that eventually led to the great economic crash of 1929, a time that marks the beginning of the Great Depression of […]

Dear seniors, As we begin our study of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, there are a variety of important ancillary resources I would like for you to read and be able to discuss within the historical context of the 19th century. reading-schedule 19th-century-american-history-timeline characteristics-of-the-slave-narrative frederick-douglass-and-the-art-of-persuasion frederick-douglass-summary-and-character-list narrative-of-the-life-of-frederick-douglass-summary slave-narrative-samples timeline-of-the-life-of-frederick-douglass understanding-racism-to-end-its-effects vocabulary-related-to-study-of-frederick-douglass It is […]