TODAY IN CLASS
Announcement to all sections:
Test over Short Story Unit on Tuesday, Sept. 29
Will cover elements of fiction, all stories we've read, the three poems we've read; format of test will be described in the next couple of days.

All classes received a hard copy of  the James Joyce short story "Araby" during class on Tuesday. We looked closely at the first page:
Paragraph 1:  Consider the lay-out of the street, the ironic mix of the "blind" street (a dead-end street) together with  the personification with houses that "gaze." Be alert for how "vision" operates in the story.

Paragraph 2:  It starts out by stating that the former tenant, a priest, had died in the house. It describes three books in the junk room, and the state of the untended back yard.  Why?  We will never hear of the priest again, and the back garden seems unrelated to the rest of the boy's story.

Think this through . . . if you were absent see if you can figure out.  People in class should know--ask if you're not sure!!

Paragraph 3:  Students underlined references to "dark," and circled references to "light."  Do this if you were gone today and are just now reading the story at home. We were starting to debrief that when we ran out of time.

FOR TOMORROW
Finish reading the story, with care and attention. Annotation not required, but suggested! :)
If you weren't in class and don't have the link, here it is; you can read it online or print it out for yourself:   "Araby"