October 28, 2015

We started the day with 20 minutes of independent reading time. Students then chose a word from their reading to define in their Writer's Notebooks. My word today was "truculently," which means a state of being cruel, harsh, or belligerent. It comes from the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: "'No, there hasn't been any one else," she answered almost truculently" (Huxley 40).

We began session 2 of our Retellings unit. Students reread Bowen's "The Demon Lover" and focused on moments that seem significant to understanding young Kathleen and her relationship with the soldier. Students then discussed their findings and constructed an oral portrait of young Kathleen, examining her relationship with the soldier and what attracts her to him. We added more details to our character descriptions and eliminated questions that we uncovered the answers to.

Tomorrow we will examine the story's structure and get into some interpretations of our own.

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