Extra Credit Opportunities for Q3

You may complete both of these opportunities, for up to 10 extra credit points in Quarter 3. These points can make a big difference in your grade, especially if you missed an assignment along the way; take advantage.

Option 1
Memorize the following sonnet by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the last two lines of which provide the epigraph for Nectar in a Sieve. Recite this accurately and with feeling on March 18 for up to 5 extra credit points.

All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair --
The bees are stirring -- birds are on the wing --
And Winter slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!
And I the while, the sole unbusy thing,
Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.

Yet well I ken the banks where amaranths blow,
Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow.
Bloom, O ye amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!
With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.


Option 2
Read and annotate the short story "Tribal Scars" and answer throughly and thoughtfully the 13 questions on the back. Responses must be typed to earn full points. Also, the annotation of the text must show significant interaction with the reading. That is, in addition to underlining there must be questions, comments, and observations written in the margins. This is due on March 22 for up to 5 extra credit points.