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12 A and 12 CD: If you are reading "When Damon Comes," finish the story, annotating for everything that you know how to do when you read literature and the new points we learned this week: Gothic features/themes and how the writer uses setting details to establish and disrupt a feeling of familiarity.

Optional: If you are interested in Freud or the painting "The Nightmare," read more about them at these links:
A Very Brief Intro to Freud
More About the Painting "The Nightmare"

12B: No homework. I will give extra credit to anyone who writes about elements of the Gothic in a film or TV show.

Optional: If you are interested in Freud or the painting "The Nightmare," read more about them at these links:
A Very Brief Intro to Freud
More About the Painting "The Nightmare"


AP Language 

For the next two weeks, we will be focusing on writing instruction and essay writing in class. In your homework and blog posts, you will be reading and writing about Drown, a collection of interconnected short stories that address the promise and failure of the American Dream and continue the conversation that Fitzgerald started in The Great Gatsby. While reading the stories, we will be focusing on several motifs. 

1. This weekend, prepare for the reading by creating a concept map of one of the following topics, which are assigned by last name. If you want to see an example of a concept map, here's the one Ms. McGinnis (a former AP Lit teacher) created for the "American Dream".

• Machismo (make sure you look up a definition) -- LAST NAMES THAT START WITH A-G

• Fantasy and Dreams -- LAST NAMES THAT START WITH H-M

• Violence, Injury, and Illness -- LAST NAMES THAT START WITH N-S

• Masks -- LAST NAMES THAT START WITH T-Z

2. Additionally, do some research on the following topics: 

• Author Junot Diaz 
• Critical Reception of Drown by Junot Diaz