Enjoy your first fully earned weekend off this school year!

Christian Studies:

Read only The Grand Miracle. It needs a close reading so we will go over it again in class. Please be diligent and read it over once to familiarize yourself with it.

English: 

Read (or finish reading) The Guest. PDF version is found in yesterday's blog post. Answer 3-7 at the end of the story in your textbook.

Bard was Beautiful!

English 
For those of you who enjoyed The Most Dangerous Game, why not watch it here!

Read The Guest. This is not due for Friday (tomorrow) but we will be reading if you want to get a jump start, go ahead.


Christian Studies
Read only The Laws of Nature.
Upcoming due dates:
21st: rough draft
29th: early submission of midterm
Oct. 2 final date for submission

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Christian Studies

Here is a video of today's in class reading if you want to hear it again. Complete all questions and prepare for a short quiz on everything read so far.

English

Read Plot and Structure of Chapter 2 in the textbook.

If you do not have a textbook, paper copies have been photocopied for you. Find me.

Only those who do not have a textbook will get a photocopy version, one is not available for students who do not feel like taking their textbook home.

Answer all questions at the end of the reading for THURSDAY.

Lovely Fall Monday!

Christian Studies

You are completing the questions for "The Trouble with X"
and completing Journal #2:

In a 10 minute-timed entry, examine yourself and discuss your own ‘fatal flaw’. It may be the same as 'the sin with which you struggle' or it may be something else. Attempt to justify it or not and state HOW it’s a problem for you and if you are trying to solve it.

English

Read The Destructors. Online you can find it here: https://100mudcats.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/destructors.pdf  or in your textbook.

Answer the following questions:

1. Who is the protagonist in the story--Trevor, Blackie, or the gang? Who or what is that antagonist? Identify the conflicts in the story.

2. How is suspense created?

4. Discuss the gangs motivations, taking into account (a) the age and beauty of the house, (b) Blackie's reasons for not going home after losing his position of leadership, (c) the seriousness with which the boys work at their task, and their loss of concern over the leadership, (d) the burning of the pound notes, (e) their consideration for Old Misery, (f) the lorry driver's reaction. What characters do the gang's two names exploits--pinching free rides and destroying the house--having in common?

5. Of what significance, if any, is the setting of this story in blitzed London? Does the story have anything to say about the consequences of war? About the causes of war?

8. On the surface this is a story of action, suspense, and adventure. at a deeper level it is about delinquency, war, and human nature, Try to sum up what the story says about human nature in general.