Literary+Assassins


 * To 2nd Period AP English Literature and Composition Clas**s

THE RESULTS of the Literary Assassins Competition

Each of you did an excellent job in your presentations. For a grade I assigned you a number between 90 and 100 - consult your report card for the result. I have designated you all winners. The class benefited from your remarks. The juniors received an excellent review for the regents exam. Many of you discussed the essential ideas we worked with all year. You demonstrated your learning, your enthusiasm for my favorite subject and your ability to articulate your views clearly and persuasively. Congratulations!

Cory Bond: Mark Twain - excellent presentation. Clear, organized and precise. The power point demonstrated both Twain's humor, irony and his "way ahead of his time" point of view.

Marielle Campbell: Jane Austen - it was hard not to make you the winner because Austen is my personal favorite. Your presentation beautifully summarized all that is wonderful about Austen's work: her social satire, the microcosmic view of humanity and the popularity of her writing.

Jenny Duno: //Catcher in the Rye// - a very precise and organized and convincing argument for Salinger's novel: your presentation showed me why we should keep this book in the English curriculum for many years to come.

Bridgette Kuchta: Your preparation and pitching in when no one else was ready made you the best.

Dylan Lovett: The fact that you knew your subject so thoroughly and borrowed that overweight tome by my idol Howard Moon was a testament to your enthusiasm for my favorite playwright. I hope you get many of his roles to play in your future.

Jillian Masters: Out of all the presentations you captured the BIG IDEAS we have been discussing all year. You were an excellent salesman for literature. Great job.

Katie O'Hanlon: You tackled what is supposed to be the greatest book in the Western Canon. Your literary odyssey was nicely traveled.

Rocco Rea: After hearing your presentation, I just have to read //House of Leaves//.

Courtney Skillman: You found every important theme and idea in //Dorian Gray// and made me want to bring it back into the curriculum.