A few things:

1)  I will be emailing the readings for next week as I scan them.  I have emailed The Pasteboard  Bandit  in two separate emails to you (part 1 and then part 2).

2) Please read The Pasteboard Bandit for Monday.  I have taken the Gwendolyn Brooks off the syllabus, so we will discuss the The Brownies Book and the Langston Hughes poems on Wednesday.

3) I have extended the deadline for the third paper by a week.  The paper is now due on Saturday morning [9:00am] December 6th.  (Yes, this deadline is in the middle of presentations, so if you are presenting please plan accordingly).

4) I am in the process of creating a hand out on the third essay and how to engage scholarly criticism in your (still close reading based) analysis of one of the literary texts on the syllabus.   The main thing you need to know is that you should have a literary text from this syllabus, and you should read two scholarly articles on that text.  (Note: You must read articles that come from a peer-reviewed journal. Journals will say in their description if they are peer-review.  If you use JSTOR to find your article, it will more than likely be peer-reviewed.)   I will post the handout sometime today or tomorrow.

5) Please look over the handout for Monday as we will start where we left off, and I will specifically try to model a scholarly paper.  It will be a more useful demonstration if you come prepared with your questions.

Have a good weekend,

Allison