DAY 4 - CYCLE 12 - SEMESTER 2

Today, we covered the last lesson on sentence diagramming. Huzzah! Coordinating conjunctions are tricky but with practice, you'll get the hang of them. We also signed up for T-Shirts (Greg H., see me about this so we can get you signed up).

Then we discussed the end of the novel, by which many of you seemed initially disappointed, but I suspect you were willing to change your tune a bit as we discussed some of Orwell's larger lessons.

Chief among the concerns we addressed:

• In what way did Winston die?
• When did he truly sacrifice his humanity? How so?
• Why did facing his worst fear do what months of torture could not?

You can find your notes on the wikispace.

FOR NEXT CLASS
Select your T-Shirt Sentence. Your T-Shirt sentence must be well-suited for the following scenario: on the day you wear your sentence-diagrammed T-Shirts, you develop flu-like symptoms and must go to the nurse. On the way to the nurse's, you run into a lower school student, parent, and visiting family who, perhaps insensitively, ask to read your T-Shirt sentence diagram. Do not make that moment more awkward by choosing the wrong sentence. You know what this means. Thank you!