Monday, May 1 - Friday, May 5

Wednesday



Today we are continuing to bring a little Ernest into your life.

"WHEN he writes very well about love, loss, tenderness or fear, Hemingway works with the assumption that he must cause the reader to share the unstated emotion. That is responsible writing, a writing that is about the essential transaction between writer and reader. It is about being human in a time of despair.
Hemingway made it clear to his readers that a writer who stared into the truths or evasions of the soul and tried to bring back something of what he had seen was a comrade in arms to the warrior or hunter: each was a laborer at his trade who risked his life in the plying of the trade. Hemingway's work demonstrates that the making of art is a matter of life and death, no less.
At about the age of 24, I would say, Hemingway started to write about the choice his protagonists must make: either fall prey to the terror of living, and therefore kill themselves, or soldier on with what they might call professionalism. The choice was that severe. It was no metaphor. When he offered death as an alternative, Hemingway meant death."  By FREDERICK BUSCH   NY Times
1. We will soldier on reading the story in Reader's Theatre format. If you prefer to read silently out at the tables please feel free, but FYI there will be a quiz on the story once the class reading is complete.
2. We will be breaking up the reading periodically with "small fire" discussions of the questions.
3. Once Margot commits her "crime" we will stop and groups will prepare some "scenes" related to her character.

Tuesday


1. Who was Ernest Hemingway? Answer Garden: Top details. https://answergarden.ch/383870
2. mini bio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JQDe0GCNHg
3. Reader's Theatre: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
https://soundcloud.com/simonschuster/the-short-happy-life-of-francis-macomber-from-the-ernest-hemingway-audiobook-library
3. During reading: Key concepts/key ideas: As you listen, collect something for your group. One at a time, share symbols/imagery; setting; point of view, genre, tone, writing style, theme/title
4. After reading: Men & Masculinity group; Women & Femininity group; Courage group;Violence group; Marriage group.




Monday


Congratulations to the winners of Isfeld Reads 2017 - The Duolect group: Logan, Anthony, Gemma, Liam.
Congratulations also to Jazmine for not losing all her Post-it cash in our game of Gambling for Predictions.
Awards ceremonies...
1. What's on this week: finish "The Bastard"; read "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway; Friday - begin watching a version of Hamlet.
2. Kahoot! short story terms. Post-its and The Bastard - label as many short story terms as you can in 10 minutes. 
3. Patrick deWitt "blurb" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Ccvow4Tnw
4. "Each time this crucial manoeuvre of entering a house was accomplished, he was struck by the image that a house was, after all, much like a human skull." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTTZEu0e56o
5. Your turn: pick a "killer quote" from The Bastard that reveals something essential about this weird adventure story. Write you quote out on the sentence strip that I will give to you. In groups that I will form, you will discuss your quotes one at a time. 

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