Just a reminder.

Here is the reading/quiz schedule for War of the Worlds

By Monday 28th: through chapter 12

By Thursday 31st: to Book II

By Monday 4th: finish Book II and Epilogue

Read at your own pace, but be ready for the quizzes on these dates.

We will be finishing Dracula by February 4th.  Read at your own pace (finish early if you want), but finish chapter 15 by Monday 28, chapter 20 by Thursday 31, and the rest of the book by the 4th.  We will have a reading quiz on each of the days mentioned, so be sure you have read at least the recommended number of chapters.

Here is the candidate quiz.  A better one than the previous, I think.

Your homework for this weekend is to write a fable.  It must have a moral and it must have some original elements to it.   If you want to parody a fable already written, or take the moral from one of Aesop’s, you may.

We will begin a series of classic rhetorical exercises tomorrow.  Here is a list of the exercises from our favorite rhetoric resource, Silva Rhetoricae.

Your homework for tonight is to read a short fable of your choice, committing it to memory.  We will share them in class tomorrow, and write them down at the end of the period.  This exercise is intended to entertain us all while we work on recall and organizing a narrative on the fly.  Please do not spend too much time going over the original fable; just understand the story and feel free to extemporize while delivering it to the class.  Have fun with this one.  Also, if you choose a fable after reading this, post the name so we don’t all do the tortoise and the hare.