Literature in the SPA curriculum and beyond serves many purposes. We read genre fiction like sci fi or fantasy or Harry Potter for the comforts of the familiar, historical fiction like Wolf Hall to reveal the past, and contemporary literature like Middlesex to explore aspects of our lives. The novels in this class have all been written in the past ten years mostly by authors from other places. While the purposes of these stories will overlap with others, they all offer intimate portraits of life as lived in very distant, different places.
This blog site will be the central location for discussions and resources. While Veracross does a fine job of spoonfeeding daily assignments, I will be posting assignment sheets here and posting a link to this blog there. As juniors and seniors, the ease of daily assignments doesn't prepare you for what you'll experience in college, so I'll expect you to keep track of assignments here. A bookmark for this website would be a good idea.
This will be the place where we gather and share resources together. We will also include links to your own blogs, videos, and discussion prompts. I still find blogger somewhat non-intuitive, so we'll probably share some frustrations as well. So be it. Take a look at he course description and the assignment sheet tabs.
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