Wednesday Oct. 25th Review

Well, I read my passage from A Million Little Pieces and everyone when ohhhhhh... they were all touched and Brittany did her review. Then our intense class really started. Mrs. Hillestad told us the super hilarious story about the grading of the multiple choice Stranger tests. And then she told us that we did a whole lot of "weird" stuff on our Stranger essay test. Here are some things you need to make sure you look out for. For novels you underline the title you do not put the title in " ", that is used for short stories, and don't forget your apostrophes when something is possessive. Also when you are writing an essay don't forget to look back at the question while you are in the process of writing so that you cover all questions of the essay and don't digress. Then we discussed Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address. The question of how the speech became famous was answered, which was that it was published in the newspapers, and we talked about how it was poetic and how there was balance. We also talked about how Jarvis looked to Lincoln for resolution, inspiration to save South Africa. At this point we then jumped to Cry, the Beloved Country and we discussed a lot. We talked about how Kumalo missed the city once he returned to the village and the many changes Jarvis went through, how he learned from his son and how at the end he is no longer selfish. We also talked about the brightness of the son and grandson. And we talked about how different characters were trying to save Africa in different ways, for example John wanted to save Africa but all he had were words and those words lacked ideas. And now I think that is enough, you are now probably all bored. Don't forget that the end of the quarter is next week and just a reminder the today (Oct. 27th) is Kim's B*day.