Periods 2,7,8: Today we discussed figurative language further then put it into use in our writers notebooks and the students wrote some pretty interesting entries--some sill, some just beautiful. We then talked about change as this will be a unifying theme of the short stories we will begin reading in class tomorrow. We discussed the idea that people don't necessarily like change, that change is often inevitable and many variables play into why people change. HW is to read in IR books.
Period 1: We spent much of class discussing the logistics of literature circles, then we began talking a bit about Anton Chekhov and how he is known for his writing that does not judge or seem to have a bias. Homework for tonight is to complete the worksheet that asks for an opinion about which is mor e humane--life imprisonment or death penalty.
