Over Break

You have no assigned reading. As I mentioned in class, the school-wide Poetry Out Loud competition will take place on Monday, January 7, during tutorial. I encourage you to participate in it. Since you have no other work for me, consider learning a couple of poems to recite from memory. Go here to check out the eligible poems. (One poem has to be from before the twentieth century, and one poem has to have fewer than twenty-five lines. A single poem can satisfy both of these qualities, e.g. a sonnet by Shakespeare.)

Also, as I've mentioned in class, when we come back from break, you will begin reading Ha Jin's novel In the Pond. (We will begin by reading the first twenty-five pages during class that day.) 

Lastly, you will need to choose your mentor for the STP when we come back in January, so if you missed Wednesday's class when I talked about it, see the guidelines for that in the STP Handbook, which is posted to the right.