Evaluation / Assessment: Students will be evaluated based on completion of journals, participation in class discussion and free-writing exercise, and thoughtful creative writing piece and "historical context" paragraph.
Each is emblazoned with historical photos and two paragraphs of text, one in English, the other in Spanish.
This voice is the great formal invention of Hugo's novel - the support to the novel's length: a narrator who is unembarrassed by sententiae: sentimental interjections, melodramatic addresses to historical characters, one-word paragraphs, chains of adjectives linked only by their sound, characters who freeze into rants.
Madeleine Bunting's article (Comment, 10 February) on the impact and consequence of my work combines reasoned critique and justified disagreement with, in the penultimate paragraph, unfortunate historical inaccuracy and dubious inference.
"HHhH" is broken into numbered paragraphs, and the historical narrative is frequently interrupted by a Binet-like narrator, who gradually discloses information about himself.
At one point in his revisions, Melville deleted the paragraphs explaining this historical context; indeed, his stark story, told in many short segments, feels whittled down, as opposed to Hawthorne's desperately shifting accretion of "slippery things".
Assign each group a chunk of the article and related questions, as outlined below (copied into a handout for easier access): GROUP 1: Paragraphs 1-3 -Whistoricalical people or events are referenced?
Create an annotated, illustrated calendar of Islamic holidays, with a paragraph describing the historical and religious significance of each.
Each student should also research the background of the photograph that he or she chose and write a paragraph explaining its historical context.
The third paragraph sets the historical scene: the "family camp" (Familienlager) at Auschwitz-Birkenau for Jews from Theresienstadt, and especially the "children's block" that existed from the autumn of 1943 to its final liquidation in the summer of 1944.
