Second Class

Mr. Stone discussed an adage and prayed. ("Outrageous behavior is instructive. It teaches us the limits of our tolerance.")

Students wrote in their journals in response to a prompt about chapter one of The House on Mango Street. Students were asked to either compare and contrast their own experience with Esperanza's, or more specifically, to compare and contrast their emotional response to their own home to Esperanza's response to her homes.

Students received a blue handout about the literary elements of a story. Mr. Stone discussed the six basic parts of a plot with students.

The class discussed the sequence of events in "The Most Dangerous Game" using a list of ten events from the story. Students completed a vocabulary worksheet for selected words from "The Most Dangerous Game."

Homework: Read Saki's "The Interlopers" (304-310) and review chapter two of The House on Mango Street.