Many of you have posted some very interesting responses to the two assigned novels! If you have not yet posted an answer for each of the two books, you need to do so as quickly as possible. Remember, if you have difficulty using the blog, you should send your responses to my school email address.
I will see you all at school soon! Enjoy your last few days of freedom!
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Welcome!
Hello AP Students! This blog is designed to give you a chance to communicate with me and with each other about your summer reading assignments. Whenever you post a comment to this blog, you will be able to express your insights, your frustration, your confusion, your questions, and your successes with the novels. As you know from the letter I sent, you will also be required to post responses to a question over each novel at different times later in the summer.
I hope that by this point that you have at least been able to secure your novels, look them over, and decide how best to break up the reading over the summer. Some of you may have even started reading; believe it or not, Stephanie Senior has already finished Wuthering Heights! (You go girl!) Although you may certainly cover the books in any order that you choose, my recommendation would be to start with the more difficult of the two, Wuthering Heights.
If you get your reading done early in the summer and want to go ahead and post your responses to the two novels before the due dates, you may do so; however, please try to avoid including information about plot that might ruin either novel for your classmates. This is ESPECIALLY true of Rebecca!
If you have started WH, you may have noticed that the character Joseph (older man who is a family servant at the Heights) speaks in a rather confusing dialect that is very difficult to read unless you read his passages out loud. Even then, however, you may not catch everything that he says. Do not let this discourage you! Most of the time, you will be able to figure out the basic message of his "rantings." The main thing to remember about Joseph is that he is a complete grouch who is either complaining about something, chastising someone (usually Catherine or Heathcliff) about "heathen" behavior, prophesying doom and gloom, or sermonizing very self-righteously. Work around the dialect, and ASK if you need help!
Happy Reading!
I hope that by this point that you have at least been able to secure your novels, look them over, and decide how best to break up the reading over the summer. Some of you may have even started reading; believe it or not, Stephanie Senior has already finished Wuthering Heights! (You go girl!) Although you may certainly cover the books in any order that you choose, my recommendation would be to start with the more difficult of the two, Wuthering Heights.
If you get your reading done early in the summer and want to go ahead and post your responses to the two novels before the due dates, you may do so; however, please try to avoid including information about plot that might ruin either novel for your classmates. This is ESPECIALLY true of Rebecca!
If you have started WH, you may have noticed that the character Joseph (older man who is a family servant at the Heights) speaks in a rather confusing dialect that is very difficult to read unless you read his passages out loud. Even then, however, you may not catch everything that he says. Do not let this discourage you! Most of the time, you will be able to figure out the basic message of his "rantings." The main thing to remember about Joseph is that he is a complete grouch who is either complaining about something, chastising someone (usually Catherine or Heathcliff) about "heathen" behavior, prophesying doom and gloom, or sermonizing very self-righteously. Work around the dialect, and ASK if you need help!
Happy Reading!
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