Sorry this is so late tonight, classes. Busy evening. I'll make this a quick one.
So far the quizzes are a bit of a mixed bag. Most of the semi-colon usage is okay; however, several people did add a capital letter after the semi-colon. That is not necessary. There were some very clever allusions used today. An initial shout-out goes to Kaylee Smarella for her allusion creativity.
Good talks on utopia today, especially periods two and six. Let's get going period one! Time to shed the opening day nerves and participate. Remember, your goal should be to make a positive verbal contribution to the class at least once every day.
Anyway, back to utopia. We seem to have a strong working definition in each class. We discussed a couple claims about it and will start reading about a book written by Thomas Moor tomorrow. Speaking of Moor, we also had a good discussion on his quote "All evil stems from man's ambition to accumulate personal wealth and property". Most of you seemed to disagree with this idea, but you conceded that others in class had good reasons to support him.
We have a few more utopian claims, the article on Moor's writing, a poem called Utopia, and a few more items to tackle tomorrow. See what I mean about block scheduling? It'd be great to have it back.
Parents night tomorrow night. Hope to meet a lot of parents!
See you soon.
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