Day Fifty-Seven / 12.06.10

Today we started with a quote by John Updike: "Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a [big event] not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.” We reflected on:

Do you look to be awestruck/surprised/entertained when you read?

Does thinking about books / writing about them lessen the experience?

Then we looked at our mini-summaries from The Tie Man's Miracle. Next, we started talking about major, 3 paragraph summaries. They are below:

Summarizing

Then we worked on completing the following sheet for a summary of TTM.

Sum It Up!