Learning to Love America…

–Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

We’ll start with maybe 30 minutes of work on the personal essay. Remember, they’re due Monday, November 2nd.

Then, I want to take a look at Poetry Out Loud and choose our own poems.  Here’s the site and here are the qualifications. Choose a poem that is at least 14 lines long with extra credit for any choice over 25 lines. There is even a keyword search.  We’ll bust out the note cards in class to start the memorizing process.

Finally, we might try to get a head start on Of Mice and Men and read the first chapter in class.