The Narrative Class
From September 9 to May 26, the Personal Narrative students will be assigned homework to complete for Friday's class lesson.The homework will include memorizing one stanza of poetry and writing a journal entry every week, indicated on the weekly assignment page posted above right. There will be no classes on November 25 (Thanksgiving week), December 23 and 30, and April 7, and no assignments will be given for those dates. The tentative Speech Night date is Friday, May 19 at 6:30. The learning objectives for the class are posted here.
Assignments
The activated dates listed below are hyperlinks that will take you to the assignments. Please remember that the dates of the hyperlinks indicate when the assignment has been given, not when it is due.
The
Personal
Narrative
“[Mr. Johnson] advised me to keep a journal of my life, fair and undisguised. He said it would be a very good exercise, and would yield me infinite satisfaction when the ideas were faded from my remembrance...”
—James Boswell
London Journal, July 16, 1763