This week:

- Continue with your photo essay
- Final draft of MacBeth essay due
- Write blogs for the introduction, Part I V-VI, Part III Chapter 1
- Read these three feature articles on compare them in a blog:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24Conan-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande
This one's an old one, but I really liked it when I was fifteen (originally published when I was 15 pre-internet:
http://www.graffiti.org/dj/ja.html There were pictures

What is wordle?

http://www.wordle.net/

Pynchon's New Preface to 1984

http://www.themodernword.com/Pynchon/pynchon_essays_1984.html

Feel free to leave your comments on Pynchon's brief essay here.

This week:

- analytic essay second draft due Wednesday
- journalism first draft due next Wednesday
- write two media blogs (from op-ed articles in the New York Times)
- write two illustration blog entries (pages Chapter I-II, Chapters III-IV)-from Gulliver's Travels

Download Jonathan Swift's Guillver's Travels here:
http://www.asiaing.com/gullivers-travels-free-ebook.html

You can find Polanski here:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=MacBeth+Polanski&aq=f

Wikipedia Wins!

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Irish-student-hoaxes-worlds-apf-15201451.html?.v=1

Leave comments about the post here.

This week:

- Spelling quizzes
- Rehearse MacBeth
- First draft of analytic film essay due this Wednesday
- Literary groups to be assigned
- Write two blogs on one of these pieces:

Or choose a piece from the Dieter Roth retrospective, alluded to in this blog:

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2004/dieterroth/flash.htm

Finally, here's the Chuck Close retrospective I mentioned:

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1998/close/

This week:

This week you should be finishing your outside reading, writing three blog entries, one of which that focuses primarily on style.

Rehearse your MacBeth scenes for next Wednesday.

Complete you first draft of the analytic film essay for next Thursday.

Spelling Quiz JKLMNOP this Friday.