- Collected essays.
- Read and discussed sample college app essay accepted by Harvard.
- A work of advice: Coming up with an imaginative title will bait the hook for the reader. Consider doing this.
- Continued Mythology slideshow, focusing on The Hero's Journey.
- Discussion included the application of the story of the hero, psychologically, to one's own life.
- Assigned question for essay # 2, due Tuesday for peer review.
- What do you think people who know you would be surprised to learn about you? Limit your response to two pages, double spaced.(
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- Journal: What is the theme of "There Will Come Soft Rains?" Define it in a thesis statement and prove it. (Try main idea if thesis is too difficult.)
- Discuss.
- Hand back essays.
- Begin outlining "Soft Rains" together.
- HW: Preview "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe.
- Vocab: Become familiar with words 1 through 6 be Monday.
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