Kafka and Conformity: the multi-media project

Go to the new English IV weebly website to see the next unit and assignment on Kafka and Conformity

Try to fit in if you're a giraffe!

Steps to take:

• Brainstorm your own ideas about what pressures your grandparent faced.
• What kind of pressures do you face (internal, external, social)?
• How has social pressure (expectations) changed?
• Why does it exist?
• Should we compromise to fit in? Or ignore it?
• What price do we pay for either decision?
• Consider the pressures on Elizbeth Bennet.
• On Hamlet.
• On Marlow.
• On Gregor Samsa.
• INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: Design several questions that will help your grandparent talk about the pressure he or she felt from his or her parents, from the culture, from circumstances. Describe your grandparents' lives at your age.
• SURVEY QUESTIONS: Design a survey to give to your family or peers or your grandparents' friends that will help you confirm (or not) your theory about pressures then and now.
• BLOG: Prepare your blog posts for Wednesday, Thursday, and Monday reporting on your progress and especially your THEORY or ideas. You may also blog about Kafka.
• THURSDAY: In-class design your new weebly website and navigate the census software: How can the census help us know more abour the two generations?

Resume Creative Blogging: 5 blogs to go

"Choice" Photo by Eric Murray

Note: Resume your creative blogs! (5 more to go!)
Due by Friday April 29: 1st creative blog
    (you may blog about poems or make your own bucket list or what to bring to college: add a picture)
Due by Monday May 2: 2nd creative blog
      (you may blog about college Tshirt day or anything: add a picture)
Due by Thursday May 5: 3rd creative blog
Due by Monday May 9: PowerPoint about your college catalog (instructions above)
                               email by class time to jforman@buckley.org
Due by Thursday May 12: 4th creative Blog about your college catalog, classes, and program

Due by Monday May 16: 5th creative Blog: your final Goodbye to English!
                      (and mention your commitment to email your first college writing assignment next year)

Due before Christmas: Your final blog (or email) about college writing and reading

“College isn’t like high school; you have to actually try to get good grades.”