LOST BOOK ALERT. MINE!

Yes, I started school today with my 8th and 9th editions of the big lit book up at the front of the class.  By the end of 2nd period, I no longer had the blue 8th edition.  Unlike some of the lost texts, this DOES have my name in it.  I'm assuming I laid it down on one of the front desks (I'm always encroaching on those poor folks), and someone just automatically gathered it up at the bell and stuffed it in the backpack.  Please check.  As they say, "no questions asked"--I'm assuming it was accidental!  Thank you.

BACK TO THE REGULARLY-SCHEDULED PROGRAM
I'm not going to summarize a day that went from Star Wars to Harry Potter--and even Wicked in at least one class--and then wound up with transubstantiation.  We'll do more with the quest as we go along, and you're all fairly expert at spotting this one anyway.  The focus should be on the "communion" and "vampire" (?!) chapters of Foster.  In 1st  period, students had some time to apply the communion chapter to an "eating" scene from Atonement, but we only talked about the main, early dinner party scene.  In 2nd and 3rd, we discussed the dinner party scene briefly together, and at home you need to take notes (just notes, not RRJ) on the "communion" aspects of some other scene. We ran through some possibilities--you pick one.  Expect to offer detailed connections in class.
All classes:  consider the word atonement in the context of the consequences of sin (or crime)--look at the word from a purely secular standpoint (IS there a purely secular standpoint?) as well as religious tradition.  You pick--your own, or something you simply research briefly.  We are just looking for how atonement fits into a pattern here.  The object, of course, is to evaluate Briony's use of the word and her concept of how she can achieve atonement for her crime.  (Your findings should also be in your notes.)

 I collected the "Miss Brill" sentence pages.  They will steer our discussion of Mansfield's story.

Over the next few days--
1) Revise yesterday's first draft for MONDAY.  You will turn in both first and second draft materials on Monday.

2) New Reading
HtRLLaP—by next Tuesday, Chapters 4-6

Background reading in the Kennedy/Gioia text:
Everyone needs to read these first:

Plot/Short Story--pp. 12-15, 9th, pp. 11-13 8th
Point of View-- pp. 23-28, 9th,  pp. 22-27 8th

Everyone will read sections on all of the other elements, too, but the order in which
you read them will vary. List to you ASAP.

Stories
Of course we’ve already done Steinbeck’s “Chrysanthemums” and are working on Mansfield’s
“Miss Brill.”

Remaining stories (first number refers to beginning page in the 9th ed.; second number to the first page in the 8th.  I don't have a 10th or 11th):
Katherine Anne Porter, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”   94 or 80
James Joyce, "Araby"  612 or 639
John Updike, “A &P” 15 or 14
D.H. Lawrence, “The Rocking-Horse Winner” 619 or 645
James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues” (Warning: long) 53 or 39