September 16, 2008

We have started The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard. It directly relates to the documentary viewed in class as the main character's mother dies in the World Trade Center attacks. Students should have read through page 47 by this Thursday and be ready for a reading quiz. They also have quotes to respond to in their marble composition notebooks. We also discussed a quote from the movie "It is hard to be a survivor." This is powerful as we saw how it was difficult for the members of Ladder 1 in NYC to accept their fate as survivors. We will will also see how Wendy, in The Usual Rules deals with "being a survivor."