It was a quick day but it was a good day. We decided on a good theme for "Gil's Used Furniture Bought and Sold" and ten had a chance to read a friendship poem by Helen Steiner Rice. You quickly noticed that the theme of the poem was similar to that of the short story. They both dealt with things that are priceless. Ah...but then the challenge came. I needed to to write a one sentence theme that captures the main idea of both the short story and the poem. We went through some in period three but will revisit them tomorrow. I look forward to seeing what period four produced.
Regardless, this is the type of question we will be looking at this quarter. We need to be able to see connections between the materials we read and discuss. Two pieces often share a similar theme but they arrive at that theme in completely different ways. Gil's music box and a true friend are two very different things, but they are both priceless. We'll do more of that in the coming weeks.
We gave parallel structure the short shrift today due to our 2 hour delay, but we will hopefully revisit it tomorrow. Don't forget to complete the parallel structure assignment by Wednesday the 29th. Type up an example, the source, an explanation and a heading. Make it neat and grammatically correct. Ten points.
See you for a full class tomorrow...hopefully.
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