Today's activities started with the handing back of the final drafts of the Character Analysis papers. For many students their final score was a shock (there was also some added confusion due to Mr. Chan's confused ideas of the grade breakdowns...). Hopefully this will prove as an example of Mr. Chan's grading- a focus on quality rather than quantity; if the soup is thin don't expect a large tip. We will see how things go with the Reflective Essay...
Tomorrow we will be reading the short story The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas. As a lead-in to the story we looked at some terms and tried to think a bit abstractly...
Vocabulary terms: Utopia, Paradox, Scapegoat. 
Quotes: (from the short story)
"Only pain in intellectual, only evil interesting."
"Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary , what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive."
Tomorrow we will look at the story and see if we can find parallels with our Reflective Writing project.
DUE Friday: Draft of Reflective Essay
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