First and fifth periods went through their presentations for Mary Todd Lincoln. Students presented their findings and then evaluated other groups’ presentations.

Second and fourth periods worked on sentence types (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex) after going over yesterday’s homework and having a short quiz on chapter two. Notes for the day are available here.

Homework

• First and fifth periods: the online-writing is due tomorrow.
• Second and fourth periods:
  • continue working on the Lord of the Flies self-study;
  • read through chapter eight of Great Expectations (by Friday);
  • parse the following sentence in bold (for tomorrow):My sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and had established a great reputation with herself and the neighbours because she had brought me up “by hand.” Having at that time to find out for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me, I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand.