The Week After Final Exams

Journal: Swan Songs

1. Senior Research Paper or Project

• What did you chose to do?
• Why did you chose this?
• What three interesting things did you learn from this project?

2. We have spent two years reading rich texts and sharing life.  What discussion would you like to have in class?  Is there an issue, a story, an idea, a question, you would like to consider together?  Is there a subject we began but couldn't finish (bell rang, etc.)?  Perhaps an issue a text brought up that we never had time to treat?  

Question:

• Party on Block Day?
• Dance?

Essays 

• A Professor Destroys His Own Financial Foundation: Secular Grendel
• Stand Firm

• Google Drive Articles

Short Stories

• The Oral Tradition in the Modern World
• What is Love in the Modern World? 

• John Cheever
• "The Swimmer"
• Drinking...and Swimming

• Eudora Welty 
• "A Worn Path" 
• Faithfulness

• Flannery O'Connor
• "A Good Man is Hard to Find" 
• Who are You?

• Ernest Hemingway
• "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
• Men, Women, and Tragedy