Turnitin.com

Hey guys, please go to the homework site bulletin board, view your class's log-in information for your section of English IV, and then register at turnitin.com. The first draft of your Icarus Girl paper, which is due next Friday, must be turned in at turnitin.com, not to me via e-mail.

This is the student user help manual if you need it:
http://www.turnitin.com/static/pdf/tii_student_guide.pdf

This is a play Helen Oyeyemi wrote that got some pretty good reviews too. Its called The Opposite House.

Reminder

Don't forget that you must post at least twice a week. I'll be giving this grade on Friday, so make good observations and comments TODAY!

Puff-Puff Recipe

This link has a puff puff recipe. The food that Jess and her Nigerian side of her family made.
http://www.motherlandnigeria.com/recipes.html#puff_puff

ibeji statues

http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/arts/scultpureplastic/AfricanSculpture/AfricanArtAesthetics/TheExhibition/aa09sd.jpg

YeLLOw WaLLpApeR

Here is YELLOWWALLPAPER for LISTENING..for you auditory ppl. The 2nd one is the shortest..It helps alot to hear it
http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search.php?title=Yellow+Wallpaper&author=Gilman&status=all&action=Search

I mentioned this organization in class Monday

http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/

I don't know if my post is going to work but I think Helen Oyeyemi is crazy and if we asked her what her book meant she wouldnt even have an answer.

Homework for Friday Night

Read the article I gave you in class from the Telegraph about Helen Oyeyemi and read this article on twins in Nigeria.
http://www.randafricanart.com/Yoruba_Customs_and_Beliefs_Pertaining_to_Twins.html

The Cracked Mirror

Look at page 252. This is the scene when the mirror breaks in the bathroom: "The mirror crack'd from side to side" is used here in The Icarus Girl, but it is a quote from the poem "The Lady of Shalott" by Tennyson. The motif of the mirror is used over and over in "The Lady of Shalott" to juxtapose reality and myth, and to convey the theme of sight and knowledge. As for Icarus Girl, mirrors create twins in the way that twins "mirror eachother." It's important that Oyeyemi uses this quote here, because in the poem, soon after "the mirror cracks," the Lady of Shalott commits suicide (Her suicide is related to Launcelot). In The Icarus Girl, the mirror breaking causes an escalation of the tension in the novel. Jess's real fear of TillyTilly (who is death?) begins in the bathroom when TillyTilly tells her she wants to become her (essentially kill her).

From "The Lady of Shalott":
She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces through the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She looked down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror cracked from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott.

Follow this link for the full text of the poem:
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/los1.html