1. The reminder was given that the reflective essay was due today. (I’ll accept them on Monday to give some allowances for driver training interupting our typing time, etc.)
2. We continued where we had left off – at the moment where the narrator’s father speaks for the first and only time in the story, at the moment where he finally found his missing son, to say only “You’d better git some supper”. It seems a strange comment, considering the circumstances. We talked about the habit some people have of talking about nothing of importance (just saying random things in dialogue) to lessen the tension between two people. It’s a strange way to express something but the best strategy for some.
3. We finished reading the story and asked a few questions at the end.
   1. Why did the father not give his son the penny back?
   2. Why did the son not keep the penny when he burried his father, instead of leaving it in his father’s suit pocket?
4. There were questions given in the handout before they read the story. Students worked quietly and independently to fill in these answers before reading another short story that will be the source of our next assignment.

Unrelated to our current topic in class, but directly related to the previous sub-unit of Childhood, here is a video I enjoy of a little girl singing along to a song. The impressive thing is that she’s so young, yet knows all the words to it and sings with such expression and body language! See what you think! Ohh… to be young again!