Author of the Day: Truman Capote
Word of the Day: calumny
Weird Holiday Day: Thomas Jefferson Day (remind me to tell you a cool anecdote about something Kennedy once said about Jefferson.)
Gifted English II: Notes on the board regarding criteria for writing reviews; example of a review by Anthony Lane from The New Yorker. Our next non-fiction foray is writing a review of a cultural text from the past three years; anything from a concert to a CD release to a movie. I hope I don't get 58 reviews of Avatar.
APees: The transition to Heart of Darkness begins with a reading of T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men". The epigraph at the top of the poem is from the novel.
