Period 1:

We’re finishing your essays on General Zaroff and Montresor.

Periods 3, 4, 6, and 7:

We’re finishing your essays, and you have homework. Here’s the file, in case you lost yours:

The Pearl Pre-Reading Homework – Venn Diagram

And here’s the link to the website that I would recommend using to complete this:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day

(I love The Oatmeal so much.) This works out really well because not only was this past Monday Columbus Day, this information is important for you to understand Steinbeck’s The Pearl. Think of this piece of history as sort of the prologue – what happens before the story, that we don’t get to see.

And one more thing – the vocabulary is now posted under the “Vocabulary” tab.