Homework 9-23-08

Here is your homework assignment for tonight. It will be due in class on Thursday, 9-25-08

• Please read and create a dialectical journal (20 entries) for "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin. Simply do a Google search for the e-text. Please post the link to the e-text on your blog by Thursday, at 8:20am.
• Read chapters 4-6 of The Scarlet Letter. Create a dialectical journal (20 entries) for this text. You DO NOT have to write a response essay
• As you do the journals, consider notions of what it means to be a True Woman, blackness, "the other" and Social Darwinism, as it applies to these texts. Consider how religion might play a role in perpetuating notions of Social Darwinism and a patriarchal society. Deep, I know (but we talked about these things).
• YOU HAVE A VOCAB QUIZ ON THE 25 WORDS FROM THE SCARLET LETTER ON FRIDAY!!!!! STUDY STUDY STUDY. ALSO, BE PREPARED FOR A READING CHECK QUIZ THAT INCLUDES QUESTIONS ON THE RHETORIC OF THE SCARLET LETTER
• Bring 50 Essays to class on Thursday. We will do paired reading of "The Declaration of Independence".