Cynthia Ozrick bio

My seniors read "The Shawl" by Cynthia Ozrick today in class.  Her bio is not like Ruth McBride's, but she is a Jewish American, so I see some similarities.  If you're interested, look at the site.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Ozick.html

Links for Literary Criticisms of Death of a Salesman

Here is a website with several pages that might more adequately explain the schools of literary criticism:
http://mesastate.edu/~blaga/theoryindex/theoryhomex.html

Here are some links where you can find literary criticisms of Death of a Salesman. http://www.helium.com/items/1119619-character-analysis-for-death-of-a-salesman

http://www.helium.com/items/1018605-literary-analysis-the-american-dream-as-portrayed-in-death-salesman-arthur

http://jco.usfca.edu/arthurmiller.html

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cjas/june_miller.html

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cjas/june_miller.html

To all you seniors who are slackers

POETRY blogs!  That's what you need to do!  Not Pride and Prejudice blogs; the time has come and LONG gone for that! Summaries on major work files took the place of those blog grades (you can't make higher than a 70 on those assignments now, anyway).  Again, those were due in JANUARY!  February is now almost over and 5 poetry blogs, analyzing a total of 10 poems, was due TWO WEEKS AGO!  I hope my frustration/annoyance is adequately transferring in the use of all caps!

Sophistic philosophy in Hamlet

Here's a sort of summary of the history of philosophy you might find interesting: http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/BluePete/Phil.htm

I'm also following a blog called the Craft of Living, which is written by a doctoral candidate.  His "Dramatis Personae" entry goes far to explain the various sophists and their beliefs.

Here's a website that offers a whole annotated bibliography of articles that discuss philosophy in Hamlet: http://www.hamlethaven.com/philosophical.html#levynor

Just a reminder to my seniors

5-10 poetry blogs due today!!!  Most of you girls have been vigilent and successful in your poetry analyses.  I want to reccommend a fun website to look at or to listen to poetry and poetry commentary:  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/.  I LOVE it!  I used it a lot last summer when I was taking a contemporary poetry class. 

Working during the faux inclement weather

So obviously I'm on blogger, and I was going to add some of you who are following me, and I realized that I left those lovely slips of paper containing your URL's on my desk! Text me your URL so I can add your blog to those I'm following. I keep trying to piggyback and it's just not working. I can see that Randi is following Vanessa's blog (and mine) but I can't seem to add her from Vanessa's blog. VERY ANNOYING. VERY. Just sayin'....

Seniors' first blog

I realize there are only two or three of you following my blog right now. and I realize that the rest of you are probably waiting till Thursday to even attempt to create a blog, but your first Pride and Prejudice entry is due Sunday, January 10th. You must post by 6:00 pm. I'll check the postings around 9:00pm. You are to write a brief summary of the first 34 chapters (I've read the book at least ten times, so I can smell BS a mile away!) and response. I realize this in not the most masculine read for the guys, but you MUST be positive in your response. You can be honest and write about what you don't like, but also included what you think Miss Austen does well. Thursday is just four days away! I look forward to seeing you guys!