Entering the Gothic House: October 24, 2016

Focus: What background should we build in order to understand American Gothic literature?

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1. Warming up: Playing musical chairs with Gothic topics

2. Making predictions about the Gothic stories with the quotation on the front of your booklet:

• By yourself: What does this quotation mean? Do a little bubble brainstorming or freewriting to unpack it.

• With a partner: How does this quotation connect to any or all of the brainstorming you did during musical chairs? What topics do you think we're likely to find in these Gothic stories?

3. Taking a time-out to explore how this unit will work and to set up your folders:

• Create a folder called "Gothic Literature" (or something of that nature).

• Place it inside your shared American Literature folder.

• Click HERE for Gothic Mystery #1; make a copy, and save it inside your Gothic Literature folder.

4. Investigating Gothic Mystery #1: What is the role of the Gothic house?

The Others: 0-10:00
Edward Scissorhands: 7:55-16:30

5. Wrapping up with an exit ticket

HW:
1. Continue working on your ELIC-inspired memoir. All rough drafts should now have my feedback. If you'd like further feedback or a conference, please ask me by Wednesday afternoon.

Final drafts are due November 1 by 3:00 pm (I extended the deadline by one day).

2. If you wish to revise the content of your cultural hysteria essay (not just the grammar), you must conference with me. 

All revisions must be submitted by November 11, which is the end of 12 weeks.

3. Heads up: We will begin reading "The Fall of the House of Usher" in class tomorrow, and the homework will be to finish it and the journal (linked here and on website) by Wednesday.

4. One more heads-up: On Wednesday, we will have a "quiz" on subject-verb agreement. You don't need to study for this as it is open-note, open-friend, and open-teacher.