Sorry for the late-ish post. I forgot to type this up last night.

A quick reminder that the last day to turn in your Sr. Project proposals is this Friday.

Here’s the week:

Monday: I’ll be distributing Flannery O’Connor’s story entitled A Good Man Is Hard To Find and giving you guys and gals a chance to read through it. We’re going to be beginning a mini-unit on O’Connor and her work, and this story is perhaps her most well known (though, admittedly, not my favorite).

Here are a couple of links for those of you so inclined to learn a tad more about her and her work.

Comforts of Home – This is a pretty complete site detailing her life, her work, and her peacocks. It also has some pretty interesting articles, though not all of them will work for our purposes.

The Dark Side of the Cross – A killer essay about O’Connor, authorial intent, and her spirituality.

Tuesday: After a writing assignment that you can find posted below we’ll be discussing the story and the notion of grace in O’Connor’s writing. The assignment will be collected in class.

Wednesday: I’ll be distributing O’Connor’s classic Everything That Rises Must Converge. In this bizarre tale of a trip to town O’Connor manages to expose our own misgivings about each other. This one is in my top two or three.

Thursday: We’ll be discussing O’Connor’s story after doing a bit of a writing assignment, then transitioning to a short discussion of what I expect on the Proposal for Friday.

Friday: We’ll be working on a jigsaw reading assignment. More to follow shortly.