Greetings APEs!
I hope you enjoyed your long weekend! I did!
This is a short week for two reasons. It's an A week, and I will be gone Friday, as you know, escorting students competing in Poetry Out Loud competition.
With this brevity of togetherness in mind, let us not tarry in our tasks, though we may need to tarry in our texts. Tuesday, I would like to complete Act III of Othello. As in all Shakespearean tragedy, the climax, or point at which the main conflict is resolved (and by resolved I mean comes to a point from which there is no return after a given action or series of them). This is the most significant part of the text. It is in chapter three that Iago and Othello cement their bond. I have written what I think is a plausible argument as to why Othello chooses to murder the innocent Desdemona. I'd like you to read it and consider it in your analysis of this text. I will expect you to be able to discuss the text in the context of that paper next week.
Since I will not be here Friday, I am giving you some much-needed time to work on a MWDS for either Othello or for Atonement, which you should have been reading at home. Expect to discuss Atonement in class when we finish Othello and to write a timed essay on both texts.
No vocabulary quiz this week!
See you in class!
Mrs. SO
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