Reminder: First Round of Presentations this Week

Hello Everyone,

Pasted below is the schedule for the week. Note that every student in the class needs to read all FOUR of the stories that Groups 5-8 will be presenting on--not only to make sense of the presentations themselves, but to ask informed questions of those presenting and to make connections between your own groupwork story and that presented in class. The Comparison-Contrast Essay will need to focus on two stories, one of which may well be presented on by another group tomorrow.

**To ensure we will have enough time for the presentations, we will begin class directly at 9:30am both this week and next instead of allowing the extra 5 min. to get ready.**

If you are in Groups 1-4, you will be posing questions or responses to the students presenting in the "Insert question" area next to your name on the Collaboration document for the week:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n-BWFupMpWUA6QtXX5pvGNTiYyKggu2WbjqvjG4gMKI/edit#bookmark=id.s5g5tlz8zws1

There are more students and groups presenting this week than next, so we may have to defer their replies to these question until the following week. (We will also do the groupwork on the discussion questions for all of the groups next week as well.)

If you are in Groups 1-4 and a respondent, you might consider asking any of the following:

a. Have a presenter clarify something mentioned in their presentation
b. Have a presenter consider how something mentioned in their presentation relates to something else (say, one of the other stories or another scene in the story presented on)
c. Ask a presenter a follow-up question about their presentation or to consider an alternate interpretation of what they were talking about
d. Ask a presenter to respond to a connection between their own presentation and that of another presenter
e. Have a presenter elaborate on one of the other elements of fiction in connection to what they themselves were presenting on

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Week Eleven (11/9-11/11) — Groups 5-8 Present + Individual Conferences on the Essay

Readings / Homework due Tuesday:

ALL students must read the four stories on which students will be presenting Wednesday (from the 40 Short Stories anthology):

* Alice Walker's “Everyday Use” (group 5)
* Amy Tan's “Two Kinds” (group 6)
* Gabriel García Márquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" (group 7)
* Joyce Carol Oates's “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” (group 8)

Recommended: View the discussion questions for the stories either before or after you read them to prepare for class.

Wednesday Homework and In-Class Activities:
Join the Weekly Class Session on Zoom by 9:35am.

Groups 5-8 need to be prepared to present during the class session.

Sign up on the Conference Schedule by SUNDAY 11/15 if you want to consult individually about your essay (if you have yet to visit my office hours you will receive extra credit).