CYCLE 10 - DAY 1 - SEMESTER 1

Today, everyone took a grammar quiz wherein I asked you to identify how words operated in sentences, both diagrammed and undiagrammed. Afterwards, I asked most of you (section 2, I don't think you got this) to place yourselves on the following spectrum, both on the top and the bottom. Answering both of these questions can tell both of us a lot about where problems lie. Is it in degree of preparation or methodology? What is the correlation between your investment of effort and your return on that investment? If you found yourself on the left on the top half of the scale, but on the right on the bottom half, COME IN TO SEE ME!

Then, everybody but group 4 covered vocabulary (moment of idiocy there, group 4. Mea culpa).

After that, we covered a variety of discussion questions in each class:

• Is Hazel's fear getting the better of him?
• Is Fiver improving in his leadership?
• Just how much of a price are these two willing to pay for their warren?
• Is General Woundwort entirely unsympathetic? What motivates this ruthless dictator?
• Why does Adams spend so much time describing setting, anyway?  Is he excessive in this, or are we unappreciative because culturally we tend to think of the outdoors as something we go through to get elsewhere (i.e., is the fault with us or the book?)

There are other great points you folks made today, which you can find by perusing the class notes on the wikispace.

HOMEWORK

Read 312-336.  The study guide is available on the wikispace.

Write sentences on the wikispace, too.