5/22

In class: Because of the Lake Compounce field trip, and the number of absences, we watched What's Eating Gilbert Grape.

5/27

We will finish Gilbert Grape.

If you missed the first half of the movie, it is YOUR responsibility to either stay after school to watch it, or rent it on your own.

*Read the essay about Coming of Age films and literature.

In class you will continue the discussion of Campbell's Hero's Journey and its relationship to the genre of Coming of Age. Plug in characters to a chart.

Begin writing essay on the message behind the journey. How does it apply to you? How do the short stories we have read so far fit into this genre? How about the films we've viewed? Catcher in the Rye?

6/2

Finish essay begun last class.

Discuss/share essays

Final Review Session: Juniors--you will be at an assembly and will have to borrow Catcher if you need to review it. You will review Catcher and the other short stories and films we read and viewed. We will review the quest of the hero and discuss the relationship of the quest to Coming of Age.

Part I of Final Exam:

Holden Caulfield is once again on a hero's journey. On his path, he meets one other character from either a film or a short story that you have read (or from your choice book). Write about their coming together and what they have to defeat in order to return to the upper world and become enlightened adults. This is to be handed in with your final--it will be graded as a part of it. I will hand you expectations in class, or you may click on the link. You may not use any notes or books for this essay.