MGC Sophomore English Blog

Hi all! Here's the completed assignment sheet for the 2014 MGC Cafe Project! It's long and complicated, so give it a good read to ...

Hi everyone, I'm attaching two documents to this post: 1. Vocab List #5 2. The Bastard of Istanbul  Writing Assignment Let me kno...

To all those who are hungry... In preparation for your assignment due on Monday (see the syllabus), your thought provoker for tonight asks...

Hi all! It's time to start thinking about the CULTURAL ALLUSIONS that Shafak uses all throughout her novel. Your job is to do a little...

To all Steintraubian sophomores! The links below include the syllabus for both D-Block and E-Block readings of The Bastard of Istanbul . ...

Hello! Now that you've finished reading Part Two of Things Fall Apart , it's time to start grappling with one of the central them...

Hello! Time to start moving past the obvious in our studies of Things Fall Apart . Tonight, in addition to reading the assigned text, pl...

Time to get provocative! In Act Two, Shakespeare gives us two soliloquies: one LONG (by Lancelet, at the start of 2.2) and one very SHORT ...

Hello! The entire plot of The Merchant of Venice  kicks off because Antonio decides to say "yes" to Bassanio's request for a...

Filmmakers and Families... Here are the AMAZING works of dystopian cinema that you all produced these past weeks. Share them with everyone...

Hi Everyone, In case you did not receive it in class, below is a link to the Vocab List 2a. The quiz will be on Wednesday, 30 October. For...

Here are two links that EVERYONE in class should read, even if you're not writing about the privacy issue. The first  is to a New York...

The final "Thought Provoker" for 1984  asks you to do some supplementary reading first, and then respond. KEY QUESTION: When peo...

If you've finished reading Goldstein's Book, this one's for you.... BACKGROUND: After reading "The Book", Winston ga...

What follows is a THOUGHT PROVOKING QUESTION that I would like you to address and debate online tonight. We will be talking in depth about t...

TO those about to engage in thought-provoking online discussion, I salute you. What follows is a THOUGHT-PROVOKING QUESTION about the fir...

HW for Tuesday, 9/17: In the COMMENT space below, please write a short response of no more than 500 words to the following questions: ...

On the UNIT SYLLABUS documents copied below, the "Essential Questions" box got formatted incorrectly. Here are the Essential Que...

Students and Parents: Attached to this post, you can find the UNIT SYLLABUS for our unit on George Orwell's 1984 . This syllabus conta...

In preparation for our unit on George Orwell's 1984 , I've posted a number of movie trailers of films that classify in the Dystopia...