High School 3: Concerning Lewis

Hello and welcome back, High School Third-Years!

Below is the link to the biographical talk on C. S. Lewis that John Piper gave in 2010. Please enjoy this video and take notes on anything you find important. (The transcript of the speech is below the video, but taking notes with your own hand will help you remember better.)

"Lessons from an Inconsolable Soul"

See you soon!

~Mrs. Stewart

High School Writing 2: More Photos

Welcome back, photography description gurus!

Here's the link for today's options:

National Geographic Photo Galleries

Choose a photo you can describe in vivid, stylish language, as we discussed in class. Be sure to print out the photo to hand in... or send me the link to the gallery you chose and tell me which photo you described! Either way, remember that I need to see it.

Have a great week,

~Mrs. Stewart

HS Writing II: Photo Assignment

Hi, High School Writing II!

Follow the link below to find a slideshow of all the photos you may use for your first creative photo assignment. Of course, you may also use a personal photo!

Photo Description Assignment

Remember, your options are a descriptive non-fiction short essay, a poem, or a short story. Don't be silly. :-)

~Mrs. Stewart

American Literature: Faulkner Story

American Literature students:

Here's the link to your Faulkner reading for this week. As usual, please print it out and bring it to class next Tuesday!

"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

~Mrs. Stewart

Middle School Lit: Robert Frost Poems

Hello, all!

I hope you enjoy these poems. Please print them out and bring them to class next week for discussion.

"The Road Not Taken"

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

See you next Tuesday!

~Mrs. Stewart

American Literature: The Harlem Renaissance

Hey, American Literature-ers!

I hope you're hard at work on your analysis papers by now. Enjoy these--and as you do, think about how they show evolution (or not) from previous discussions about race that we've read!

"A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes
"Democracy" by Langston Hughes
"Visitors to the Black Belt" by Langston Hughes (the paragraphs beneath the poem are optional to read/print)

~Mrs. Stewart

American Literature: High Modernist Poets

Good day, Am Lit students.

Here are your lovely modernist poems for the day. These are HIGH Modernist poems; it takes some work to get meaning out of them. If you read them and find yourself utterly confounded, don't despair. We'll make sense of them in class. I do want you to be familiar enough with them to discuss them in class, however, so don't skip through the reading just because it's difficult!

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot
"In Just--" by e e cummings

Enjooooy~

~Mrs. Stewart