Or, if you missed Thursday, be aware: No Class Friday!

Sorry I didn't post this earlier. Got distracted. See you Monday. Now would be a good time to start reading Twelfth Night.

Go to Twitter (notice how I made that a link for you, to make it easy?) and create an account.

Once you have created an account, type sfccshakespeare (you can copy and paste to omit any probability of typing error) in the search box and request to follow. I promise I'll say "yes"!

Welcome to Introduction to Shakespeare for Winter quarter, 2012.

What better way to start the new year than reading some of the best literature ever written?

For those of you who were in class on Wednesday, I created an account for you, the usernames and passwords are as I said they would be. You can change either if you like.

This is your first journal assignment: write up an introduction of the person you interviewed in class. Shoot for a at least one hundred words so as to do them justice. This introduction should make a point about the person, something you want to make clear early on in the introduction. Write up the introduction in a way that develops and supports the claim of the point you seek to make. The point might be that they are incredibly literate, daring, adventurous, serious or what have you. Tie all of the supporting details to that. Afterwards, once enough introductions have been posted, read through a number of them and respond to at least two of them. Respond also to at least one response to your introduction. Have this done by Friday.

1. Thoroughly read all material as assigned. This means re-reading, often more than once. If you think you can just skim the material right before class and actually learn something, never mind make a contribution to the class, you are mistaken and wasting both your time and mine.
2. You are expected to "tweet" a question each day regarding the reading.

I forgot these, which you have seen in earlier quizzes.

The horror! The horror!

We four affectionately watched his back as he stood in the bows looking to seaward. On the whole river there was nothing that looked half so nautical. He resembled a pilot, which to a seaman is trustworthiness personified. It was difficult to realize his work was not out there in the luminous estuary, but behind him, within the brooding gloom.

Plot Summary Part 1: The story focuses around the life events of Henry Smart. Part 1 opens with Henry on his mothers lap looking to the stars pointing outwhichoneshe believes is her dead Henry, the first baby that didn’t survive. Henry describes the first meeting of his father and mother, Henry Smart and Melody Nash. They get married and then move into a quaint apartment that even has a straw bed. Henry’s father works as a bouncer at a local brothel as well as a hitman. Each time his father kills he leavesthe message, “Alfie Gandon says, ‘Hello.’”

Plot Summary
Part 1:
The story focuses around the life events of Henry Smart. Part 1 opens with Henry on his mothers lap looking to the stars pointing out which one she believes is her dead Henry, the first baby that didn’t survive. Henry describes the first meeting of his father and mother, Henry Smart and Melody Nash. They get married and then move into a quaint apartment that even has a straw bed. Henry’s father works as a bouncer at a local brothel as well as a hitman. Each time his father kills he leaves the message, “Alfie Gandon says, ‘Hello.’”

This is a skit from Prairie Home Companion's show from this past weekend, about a Broadway musical Prufrock. Remember that the Broadway musical Cats is based upon some of Eliot's works. The skit makes use of a number of poets, including Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams and Robert Frost.

Book club Presentation Dates. Wikis are due at the same time.

Book Club Work Day: 11/28 (I'll be in my office if you have questions)
Pride and Prejudice: 11/29
Burmese Days: 12/1
Jane Eyre: 12/2
Star Called Henry: 12/5

Enjoy your holiday weekend!