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Final Exam

Commencement Speech 2014

You have been asked to speak at a graduation ceremony next Friday. However, it is not for High School West. You have been asked to speak at the 8th grade moving-up ceremony at one of Smithtown’s middle schools.

Your comments will be brief (1-2 typed pages, 12 pt. Times New Roman), but you should address your audience by talking about their present lives, their future hopes, their dreams, their misconceptions, etc…

You are a valued speaker to this audience because you’ve lived the last four years as a high school student, and you know how you’ve changed since that last day of 8th grade. You know better than anyone the ups and downs that await the senior class of 2018.

Use your personality to make this an informed, insightful, humorous, and memorable speech. Don't let the kids down.

All My Sons (audio)

Go to the link below to listen to Act One of All My Sons:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbfZwu69fUk

Chapter 2 of The Manhunt

Please go to the link below to read chpater 2 of The Manhunt.

http://graphics.latimes.com/christopher-dorner-manhunt/#chapter-two

Literary Journalism

"Literary journalism is not fiction--the people are real and the events occurred--nor is it journalism in a traditional sense. There is interpretation, a personal point of view, and (often) experimentation with structure and chronology. Another essential element of literary journalism is its focus. Rather than emphasizing institutions, literary journalism explores the lives of those who are affected by those institutions."
(Jan Whitt, Women in American Journalism: A New History. University of Illinois Press, 2008)


We are going to begin reading a piece of serialized literary journalism based around a series of crimes that happened in Los Angeles during February of 2013. 

The first installment is called "Murder in Irvine."

Please leave a comment/reaction on the blog itself.  Use your first name and last initial only.

http://graphics.latimes.com/christopher-dorner-manhunt/#chapter-one

Time Enough at Last

Please read the short story "Time Enough at Last." for Monday's class.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32633/32633-h/32633-h.htm

Literary Theory and Critical Perspectives

Using your copy of The Story and Its Writer you will be completing a worksheet printed in class.

It can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GslJmtzGjVf5xzhgHJAPO-BJR2U_j3sKSeHdbpNgN3s/edit

Using pages 1779 - 1784  in the text, define each of the critical perspectives on the worksheet grid.