Sojourners in A Land of Books and Couches

Having been evicted from Mrs. Loconte's room due to light installation, our class today was held in the library. This new environment proved to be ironically distracting, as Mrs. Loconte pointed out.  I blame the couches.  We began with a discussion on the marking scheme for our most recent writing assignment, which will take the form of either an expository essay, a persuasive essay, a satire, or an epic poem.  Essays will be marked using the typical 6 point scale; the satire will be graded on content and creativity, and should be between 500-750 words; the epic poem should contain all the heroic elements, be presented in a mocking tone, and be 50-80 lines long. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. After this lengthy, winding discussion with a few interruptions and digressions, we quickly went through the homework on Gulliver's Travels. Pretty light on the homework front today - come to next class with your ideas for our lit shirts and research the rules for the game "ombre".