Don't Forget...

You need an independent reading book (non-fiction) with you in class on Monday!
Also: finish correcting your AP multiple choice.  Be honest with yourself, work hard, look up terms you don't know.  This work DOES pay off!

You Need to Know These...

I suggest you print this, read it, study it.

10.29

Today in class we took our first AP multiple choice timed diagnostic test.  Thursday, we'll take a look at the results, and the kinds of questions the AP exam is likely to ask...

For homework: please study your literary terms, as there will be a quiz on A-J Thursday.  Also, begin thinking about your independent reading text-- it must be non-fiction, and the title must be approved by me.  We'll begin our ind. reading unit next week.

Some titles to get you started...

You are not limited to this list. 

Psychoanalytic (Freud/Jung/Psychoanalysis of Holden’s character)

·      “Kings in the Back Row: Meaning through Structure.  A Reading of Salinger’s Catcher” by Carl F. Strauch (symbolism, imagery, structure)

·      “Holden and Psychoanalysis” by Dennis Vail (1976)

·      “Love and Death in Catcher” by Peter Shaw (1991)

·      “The Psychological Structure of Catcher” by James Bryan (1974)

·      “Holden Caufield: ‘Don’t Ever Tell Anybody Anything’” by Duane Edwards

·      “Mentor Mori; or, Sibling Society and Cathcer” by Robert Miltner (lack of male role models, society of 50s and 60s, relationship with Phoebe)

·      “The Psychoanalyst and the Fetishist: Wilhelm Stekel and Mr. Antolini in Catcher” by Lydia Rogers

·      “Salinger Then and Now” by Terry Teachout (1987)

·      “J.D. Salinger’s Holden and Seymour and the Spiritual Activist Hero” by Helen Weinberg (1987)

·      “Salinger’s Oasis of Innocence” by Anne Marple (1961)

Marxist

·      “Memories of Holden Caufield—and of Miss Greenwood” by Carl Freedman (2003)

·      “Universals and the Historically Particular” by Carol and Richard Ohmann (1977) (anything you can find by the Ohmann’s will be a good starting point for a Marxist reading of Catcher)

·      “Reviewers, Critics, and The Catcher in the Rye” by Carol and Richard Ohmann

·      “The Catcher in the Rye:  In A Reader’s Guide to J.D. Salinger” by Eberhard Aslen (2002)

Postmodern

·      “Reconsidering the Concept of Therapeutic Landscapes in Salinger’s Catcher” by Leonard Baer (2004)

·      “Reading Salinger’s Silence” by Myles Weber (2005)

·      “The Personal Narrative and Salinger’s Catcher” by Danielle Roemer (1992)

New Historicism

·      “J.D. Salinger: The Development of the Misfit Hero” by Paul Levine (1958)

·      “The Fallen Idol: The Immature World of Holden Caufield” by Peter J. Seng (1961)

·      “Cherished and Cursed: Toward a Social History in Catcher in the Rye” by Stephen Whitfield (1997)

·      “In Cold Fear: The Catcher in the Rye Censorship, Controversies, and Postwar American Character” by Pamela Hunt Steinle (review by John Arther Maynard, 2002)

·      “Protecting Holden Caufield and His Friends from the Censors” by Edward B. Jenkinson (1985)

Queer Theory

·      “The Catcher Controversies as Cultural Debate” by Pamela Hunt Steinle (2000)

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Homework, 10/17

Remember to study your Literary Terms Glossary.  On Monday you'll have a quiz on words A-H.

EXCELLENT job to those of you who took part in our Socratic Seminar today.  Your participation is worth 40% of your Catcher unit test grade.  The other 60% will be based on an essay you'll write through the scope of your chosen school of literary theory.

Below is the assignment for the weekend in case you missed it, and CLICK HERE for a link to the OWL Purdue website you'll need to complete the assignment.

Looking forward to reading your work next week.

Finishing Catcher

Today in class we finished reading The Catcher in the Rye.  In preparation for the Socratic Seminar next class (part of your unit test grade), please create at least four open-ended questions regarding some aspect of the book-- thematic, symbolic, references within text, the text in popular culture, J.D. Salinger-- and answer your four questions using textual evidence (that is, quotes/page numbers from the book).
You will use your questions/answers as a starting point for the class conversation, and I will be collecting your work at the end of the seminar.