Almost Done with CHRONICLE!

Well -- everyone should be finished with Chronicle of a Death Foretold at this point! We will have our last class meeting on this novel on Tuesday! We will take one last quiz on this novel (it's comprehensive!) and then we will do an activity that will involve questions that cover the entire novel.

If you haven't already, make sure you get your hands on a copy of Aravind Adiga's White Tiger. This Indian novel will be our next "read." Don't forget that if you are short on cash, we have a copy of the novel on reserve in the library. Click here for the Wikipedia entry for the novel -- I will be curious to see what connections you can make back to Kehinde and to Chronicle of a Death Foretold! Happy reading!

Tuesday, Sept 21

So how is the reading going for Chronicle of a Death Foretold?? We will be having out first oral presentation on Thursday (Aaron, William, and Andrew L) so I want to "save" as much as the text as possible for those folks to be able to cover in their presentation.

When you come to class on Tuesday, we will start with a quiz on the reading selection due tomorrow and then we will spend the bulk of the class watching a documentary on Gabriel Garcia Marquez (interviews with this author are pretty rare, by the way!). See you in class!

Tuesday's Class

First, I will make sure and hand out the oral presentation dates in class on Tuesday. We will quickly review what each group will need to do in order to prepare for their presentation slot.

Second -- you are offically done with one novel! Only five more to go! We will take a quick "break" for Tuesday's class in order to talk about Kehinde as a whole and to watch an American version of polygamy. Is the American version anything like what we saw with Kehinde's family?

We will be starting Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, for Thursday's class. Click here for some basic information on this South American writer.

See you in class on Tuesday!

Thursday, September 2

I appreciate the great discussion we had in class on Tuesday! So let's see what you folks can come up with for Thursday's discussion!

Click here for another great web site that talks about Emecheta in general.