Yes, that's how a pearl gets created...a little tiny grain of sand slips into the muscle-y part of an oyster and the oyster gets irritated and starts secreting stuff and rubbing at it and voila, like a million years later - A PEARL! Hopefully it won't take us that long to get our pearl on, so to speak. We started reading today in class - we are reading it aloud because it is traditionally an oral story. John Steinbeck wrote it after hearing the story in the town of La Paz, Mexico while on a trip up and down the coast with a friend.
Today we also started taking active reading notes in the form of Cornell Notes. I provided the prompts and you were to supply the notes from the story. If there were issues with this exercise please come see me immediately as this will be the norm from now on when we read aloud in class.
Tonight's homework might make your head hurt a little, but it is nothing that we have not done over and over again in class. I am simply asking you for your opinions and for some in-depth reading for context, content, and meaning. Emily Dickinson is one of my favorite American poets. Tomorrow we will be reading a Russian poem - I'm even thinking about translating it for you! Just kidding...it's already in English.
Projects were due today. Anything not turned in will automatically receive a 5 point reduction off the top as this is the second deadline extended nearly a week from last Wednesday.
HOMEWORK: Burst poetry analysis of Emily Dickinson's After Great Pain
ETYMOLOGY MOMENT: hol - from the Greek; meaning whole. Example words are holistic, holy, holocaust.
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