Just to give you a look ahead, we are starting Transcendentalism tomorrow. This will entail reading two pieces by Emerson and two pieces by Thoreau. If there are any hippies in the class, this movement is for you.

Then, we will delve into Dark Romanticism, most widely associated with Edgar Allan Poe. Have you read "The Black Cat"? Please post below and let me know. We will do another Hawthorne piece (via video again-are you catching the hint that Hawthorne is a little challenging?).

That just about wraps up our Romanticism Unit and then we will test on it all. Between now and then, you will have a spring break assignment, which is to read the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. It's short, don't panic. It's actually called a novella because it's only about 100 pages. It's one of my favorites, but then again, I love Gatsby. We will continue on through some more literature, and then sometimes in May we will complete our research paper! Yay!