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This Week

Seniors
We are starting Persepolis this week, and you should all have your books. For Wednesday, please read the first three chapters. For Thursday, read the following article on "Headscarf Politics." We will have a quiz on the first five chapters on Friday. To help prepare you, please preview the questions from the study guide:
Persepolis Study Guide

Some asked if I would post something about the Cinema Rex Fire that is credited with being the catalyst for the Revolution in Iran. And it might also be helpful to view some film about the Shah himself:





Sophomores
We are beginning discussion of the Romantic Period this week. I gave everyone a copy of Robert Pinsky's analysis of Blake's set of "Chimney Sweeper" poems: A Perfect Discomfit. Please read the handout and be prepared to discussed. We will also read other selections from the first generation of poets - Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Burns - all before the break.

After the break, we will read perhaps the most famous of all Romantic novels (the most famous Gothic novel, and the first science-fiction novel) - Frankenstein. I will order copies of the text; everything else we will read is in the textbook.

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