Lawyer consults with Meursault in The Stranger
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Claudius and Hamlet
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Meursault Video

p>Meursault is Strange, no?
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daily TEA

TEA
(Topic Evidence Analysis)

Every day when we walk into the classroom there will be an image, poem, or passage.

1. What do you notice?
2. What does it communicate? How does it communicate?
3. From small details infer larger implications.
4. T for TOPIC or THESIS: Make a claim.
5. E for EVIDENCE: Find one detail to back up your claim.
6. A for ANALYSIS: Explore the evidence and explain how it shows your claim.
7. Write a short paragraph in the TEA tradition.
8. You can blog it (with a picture), you can tweet it, you can text it (140 characters max).
9. Or you can write it on paper, even.
10. Share with someone or with the whole class.

Poems in College Reader to TEA
Musee de Beaux Arts (with image) Auden
Four Quartets Eliot
Safe S-x Donald Hall
Wedding Ring Denise Levertov
Inferno Dante
S-x without Love Sharon Olds
High School Senior Olds
I Go Back to May 1937 Olds
Barbie Doll and Smell in the Kitchen Marge Piercy
Wean Yourself Rumi
Annunciation (with image) Kay Smith
Leaving the Motel Snodgrass
The End and the Beginning Szymborska
Love Calls Us to the Things of the World Richard Wilbur
I wandered lonely as a cloud William Wordsworth

New blogs to follow

economist.com/blogs
andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com

Passages from THE STRANGER

In the following passages, trace several themes by consulting the text and making notes.

1.      P The Physical experience: light, smell, sound, heat, lust, the body

2.      D Vs. Emotional Detachment

3.      Like a video camera moving through the environment

4.      G Mind the Gap--what is NOT said

5.      See Translator’s Note

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3 Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. D

4 smell of gasoline, and the glare of the sky and the road  P

8 it didn’t matter. I offered the caretaker a cigarette D

9 I saw them more clearly than I had ever seen anyone

15 I was able to understand Maman better. . . kind of sad relief.

20 I told her Maman had died. . . “Yesterday.” She gave a little start but didn’t say anything. D

27 Then he beats the dog and swears at it. “He’s always there.”

31 nice-like

32 asking me to write it for him. . . I didn’t have any reason not to please him D

35 she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn’t mean anything, but that I didn’t think so. D

36 Marie said it was terrible and I didn’t say anything. D

37 But she wasn’t hungry. I ate almost everything. G

39 “Pay money for that bastard—ha! He can damn well die!” I realized he was crying. For some reason I thought of Maman.

41 I said one life is as good as another. . . none of it really mattered.  D

47 bright with sun, hit me like a slap in the face P

50 For the first time maybe, I really thought I was going to get married.

56 I said to Raymond, “take him on man to man and give me your gun.”

56 I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot.  D

57 With every blade of light that flashed off the sand. . . my jaws tightened. P

59 The trigger gave. . . like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
  End of Part I!

Blogging gets Cre8tiv!

Let's get Creative with our blogging!

1. Always add images.
2. Start reading blogs.
3. Go to these links to find award winning blogs to follow:
1. /bloggerschoiceawards
2. http://www.blackweblogawards.com/
3. BlogLovin
4. BlogCatalog
5. Technorati
6. Time Best Blogs
7. wordpress blogs 
8. Tumblr

Add links on your blog to your new favorite blogs

1. go to blogger dashboard, log in,
2. click ‘add a gadget,”
3. scroll down to Blog List, add it,
4. then add URL’s to the gadget. (of your favorite blogs)
5. Save