Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew!

 Guess who wrote that?  Yeah, you guessed it.  Shakespeare!  Here is the famous "Swan" drawing of a Shakespearean style theatre!

In A1, we started on our study of Hamlet -- we created theatre companies and saw the first scene presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company.  Remember each group is responsible for keeping a diary of what you do each day.  It must not fall to one person in the group to do this.  Each of you should lend a hand!

We discussed "The Yellow Wallpaper", which we will do tomorrow in A2.

We agreed that your final bildungsroman story is due on November 4.  For A2, we agreed that it would be due on November 3.  Try to think about what you learned from the two stories we read.  How did Margaret Lawrence create the impression of the characters?  (Think of the grandfather.)  How does Charlotte Perkins Gilman use unusual words to help us get inside the protagonist's mind?  The story arc that we discussed can be very helpful to structure your story.  Introduce the characters and setting.  The emotional loss can provide an inciting incident.  The struggles the protagonist faces can create rising action.  You reach the climax and then wrap things up quickly.  Try not to philosophize too much!  Let your reader do that.  We are finished with the short story book, so you can return that.  Too bad the quarter is so short, because there are lots of great short stories in that book.  Two I would recommend are "The Painted Door" by Sinclair Ross and "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson.  "The Rocking Horse Winner" (D. H. Lawrence) is also terrific.

You should be continuing to work on your poetry project and also be reading twenty minutes a day and writing in your reading log.

A1 -- Read Act 1, scene 1 out loud at home.  Remember, punctuation is your friend!

Tomorrow, Cail will ask the question of the day.  On Thursday, Travis will ask it in A1.