It’s here, really.

Continue reading over the sources for your support, refute, or qualify essay [click to download] this weekend.  We will work on your thesis statements on Monday, your support on Wednesday, and write the final drafts on Friday.  Normal article analyses will be due Tuesday and Thursday.  (Holy organization, Batman! A week planned in advance!)  Have a great weekend, enjoy the extra hour.

Edit: Great ironic inevitability!  Of course, as one of you so gently informed me, you do not have school on Friday.  So, the essay will be due at the end of class on Thursday, and the rest of the schedule stays the same.  [sigh.]

Edit 2: Here is the url for the essay download site: http://www.mediafire.com/?uz1ilncmiii.  Six of you have downloaded it so far, so it must be working at some point in the process.  Keep me updated if you are still having trouble.  There will be no article analyses tomorrow because the gods of organization have conspired against my best laid plans.  Work on your essays, come to class tomorrow with a thesis statement and some support.  [If you email a copy of your thesis to me before tomorrow I'll smile warmly upon you.]

…involving faces without lips, raised eyebrows, and tight frowns.  Thanks guys.

We went over the plans for each of your essays last week.  Continue sorting through the quotations from your books, and we’ll begin thesis statements/essay building next week.  If you haven’t begun collecting quotations, you have an extra hour today!

See you Monday.

If, for some reason, you have chosen to write an essay instead of creating a screenplay, you must choose from one of these two topics:

• If the arrival of the messenger is equivalent to R&G’s birth, what is the meaning and purpose of their life, which is shown in its entirety?
• Contrast the player’s comments about death with Guil’s.

Also, please let me (and your group mates) know that you will be writing this instead of participating in the project.

Hey all, hope your break is going well.  This is just a reminder that your conformity/rebellion essays (yep, those from all those months ago) will be due no later than this Monday.  If you have any questions, please shoot me an email or post a comment.  I’m here to help, but it’s time to get them in.

For the rest of you: Keep reading your personal novels; I hope to begin writing by the end of the coming week.  We will discuss the ending of The Stranger on Monday.