Spiderman

Today Mrs. Loconte was sadly missing so we had a sub whose name escapes me at this moment, not because he was not memorable, but because I don’t believe that he ever actually told us his name. With our work laid out neatly for us on the board, we began by reading Preface to Shakespeare. We were particularly intrigued by Johnson’s comment that “Shakespeare has no heroes.” We all proceeded to agree with this statement and decided that almost all of Shakespeare’s protagonists have flaws. The sub then pointed out that he preferred heroes with flaws than heroes without. He used the example of DC comic book characters begin too good and perfect whereas the Marvel superheroes have flaws that make them much more relatable. With the subject of Marvel brought up, I asked the sub why Spiderman was not included in the Avengers (something I have been wondering for quite some time). We then had an interesting conversation about who owns the rights to make Marvel movies and we concluded that we should all get together and see the 1994 version of the Fantastic Four even though we’d have to download it illegally. After we satisfied our superhero curiosity we proceeded by finishing the questions to accompany the Preface. Next we read To a Mouse in a variety of fascinating accents ranging from, Scottish, to Scottish-ish, to pirate, to utter nonsense. It was all quite enjoyable. The first word spoken on the moon was Okay. Nice choice. We then attempted the questions and began a conversation about how utterly disturbing short stories are. After this, the AP-Calc joined us and we went over our Greek alphabet in the dying minutes of class. We ended early at three to join the rest of the school in a farewell assembly for Rob (in which we unfortunately never did get to sing our Sound of Music song). If you read this whole post, I congratulate you. And if you didn’t, don’t worry about it, I understand because let’s be honest, if I just saw this big chunk of words, I probably wouldn’t either.

Homework:

·        You guessed it, PROJECT due Tuesday!

·        And possibly go over To a Mouse since the accents may have distracted us from the meaning…just a little.