Coming up: Friday, November 6 "A Room of One's Own" vocabulary quiz
In class: power point review of "A Room of One's Own" vocabulary
Catholic dissident Guy Fawkes and 12 co-conspirators spent months planning to blow up King James I of England during the opening of Parliament on November 5, 1605. But their assassination attempt was foiled the night before when Fawkes was discovered lurking in a cellar below the House of Lords next to 36 barrels of gunpowder. Londoners immediately began lighting bonfires in celebration that the plot had failed, and a few months later Parliament declared November 5 a public day of thanksgiving. Guy Fawkes Day, also known as Bonfire Night, has been around in one form or another ever since. Though originally anti-Catholic in tone, in recent times it has served mainly as an excuse to watch fireworks, make bonfires, drink mulled wine and burn Guy Fawkes effigies (along with the effigies of current politicians and celebrities).
I'd liked you to think of Guy Fawkes' Day as a cleansing day in our class: end of marking period, seasonal change and new beginnings.
Directions: clear your desks and take out a writing utensil
You are going to write for the next 25 minutes. What are you writing about? Anything you wish. You may write a letter, a diatribe, a poem, a vituperative scream that lets you express your frustration, anger and disgust with anything or anyone. THE ONLY RULES ARE THAT YOU MUST WRITE CONSTANTLY AND YOU MAY NOT SAY A WORd UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. (you will receive either 100 or zero points). So what happens with this writing? Five minutes before the end of class, you will destroy it in the paper shredder. No one will ever see your writing.
Why are we doing this? This is cathartic and theraputic.
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