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Homework

Seniors
Email me a copy of your thesis statement by midnight: aryland@gmail.com. Your 100-word summary of Interrogations Saved Lives is due tomorrow:
  • Use an MLA heading
  • Provide a citation for the source as your title
  • Compose a 100-word summary of the source
  • Be accurate and specific, and focus on the central purpose
Follow the same process for What Torture Never Told Us - due Friday. Bring your third source tomorrow, as well, so we can cite and discuss. 

Sophomores
Your homework is to answer questions following the three Keats poems discussed in class. QUIZ tomorrow on the "second generation" of Romantics. We will discuss Frankenstein on Friday and begin reading the novel next week. Copies of the book are $5.00.

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