Good Morning,

*Head’s Up:  If you have not yet handed in your Gatsby synthesis essay…you need to do so ASAP.

*Head’s Up;  Literature we have studied to prep for the test:

-Prose Fiction Terms

-Poem:  I Hear America Singing

-Poem:  I Too America Sing

-Song:  This is America 

-Poem:  Caged Bird 

-Short Story:  Borders

-Speech:  Martin Luther King Jr “I Have a Dream”

-Spoken Word:  Amanda Gorman

-Town Hall Discussion:  Justin Trudeau                             

-Poem:   Walking on Both Sides of an Invisible Border

-Critical Essay:  Through the One-Way Mirror

-Excerpt from a novel: The Jade Peony

-Poem: What do I Remember of the Evacuation

-Documentary: CBC:  Stolen Children

-Short Story: Queen of the North

-Short Story:  The Waltz

-Novella: Of Mice and Men

*The Role of Women in literature…..

*”Queen of the North”, Borders, Caged Bird, The Waltz …..Curly’s wife and Daisy…..

*Read aloud the short story “The Waltz”.

*Gender roles in The Victorian era:  google search…

*We looked at gender roles…looking at gender roles in “The Waltz”.  What did you all learn about gender roles in the Victorian era? Discuss

https://youtu.be/Xy7icJSTjL8

“Two Women”:  Dialogue poem

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*Today, we will read  “Of Mice and Men” chapter 4.

*Isolation and Loneliness organizer…