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slaurencot@montvilleschools.org //Endless Voyage, Di Chirrico// Don't let this painting represent your education. In room 304, you'll be expected to think for yourself, speak and write for yourself, and come up with answers that you alone discover and uncover. You'll be reading and analyzing literature and nonfiction this year, as well as writing for a variety of purposes. You will be challenged and asked to look at the world in a new way through literature. Be open. Be willing to work. Be willing to participate. = **Junior Reading List and Assignments (click on the book title or underlined unit title for hw):** = __The Color of Water, __James McBride (Sept-Oct. 12) Your homework this weekend is to work on the final essay. I'm available for help after school (esp. Tues and Thurs), and blocks 8 (Cafe Study), 4 and 6 (my room). If you come for help, be sure and bring at least a rough draft. Coming of Age: Short Stories (Oct. 13)  __The Catcher in the Rye__, J.D. Salinger   Midterm Review Study Guide   Cannery Row, John Steinbeck--February novel   __The Great Gatsby__//,// F. Scott Fitzgerald   Death of a Salesman__, Arthur Miller __The Scarlet Letter__, Nathaniel Hawthorne-- MacBeth, William Shakespeare

Assorted short stories and poetry along the way  **JUNIOR DISCUSSIONS AND TOPICS** Sophomore Reading List and Assignments (click on the book title or underlined unit title for hw):  __Our America__, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman (123)   Nonfiction (121) Last assignment is still here for Oct. 24, 2011    Various nonfiction articles   __Lord of the Flies__, William Golding Oct. 26-... Poetry  Choice fiction   123: __Their Eyes Were Watching God__    __121:Their Eyes Were Watching God__, Zora Neale Hurston __1984__, George Orwell (121) __ Feed __ ,(123)  __Othello__ Laurencot and Brooks Discussion Page = =