February 25*

JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: "I Melt With You" by Modern English; "Modern Love" by David Bowie; "Modern Man" by Bad Religion]

Agree or disagree with the following quote:

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
Dalai Lama 


AGENDA:
l. Journal
2. Brief introduction to Modernism

HW:
1. Choose an author to study from the following list (or research and propose a Modernist author you don't see here):

• Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)
• Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924)
• Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961)
• Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)
• Faulkner, William (1897-1962)
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)
• Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)
• Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)
• James, Henry (1843-1916)
• Lawrence, D. H. (1885-1930)
• Lowell, Amy (1874-1925)
• Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)
• Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)
• Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)
• Williams, Tennessee (1882-1941)
• Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)
• Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)

2. In a post on your blog entitled MY MODERNIST, declare your selection and explain your reason/s why.