Contact Information

I would like to welcome all newcomers to River Oaks and to invite all students and parents to contact me with any questions related to curriculum, including the summer reading program. It is very important to me that students and parents feel comfortable contacting me with questions and/or concerns.

To contact me via email, please click on CONTACT ME under "Links" in the column to the right. If you'd prefer to type in the address, it is aryland@earthlink.net. You are also welcome to contact me via phone (before 8pm). My number is in the River Oaks directory.

Thanks.

Juniors ~ Restoration Period

For more on the Restoration Period, go to the homepage for the Norton Anthology of English Literature . Click on the picture below to go to Wikipedia's page on Hogarth's Marriage a-la-mode :

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

What better way to spend Halloween than reading a story that begins with a beheading? For the next week or so, we'll be discussing Arthurian Literature, beginning with a look at " Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ," the anonymous tale of a test of courtly love, involving a supernatural green knight and a bet. For more information on the poem, read this introduction . I've also included a prose translation that you can compare with the verse translation we have in our book.

Homework

Seniors Your exam is on Thursday, and your final essay is on Friday. I'll talk more about the essay in class tomorrow. Also, the senior auction project lacks one more important detail - your memories! We will spend a bit of time tomorrow in class writing down some of your fondest memories of your senior year, and the rest of your time at RO. Sophomores Read "Lines Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey," and complete the questions at the end of the selection in your book. As always, please use complete sentences and cite frequently from the text.

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