English 8 students bean working on motifs, looking for three motifs in Nightjohn:

• power
• money
• freedom

Motifs will be useful later when we start trying to determine a theme of the novel.

English I Honors students worked on “The Necklace” in our first, full Socratic Seminar. We will be switching roles and repeating tomorrow with “The Gift of the Magi.”

Homework

• English 8: work on the article of the week as necessary.
• English I Honors: 
  • work on the article of the week as necessary;
  • do some freewriting on irony and symbolism in “The Necklace.”