Class Notes

We read up to page 37 in "World's End." Please come in at lunchtime to keep up with the class, if you missed class today.

Today's Vocabulary Words and Literary References:

1. The Canterbury Tales - similar to "World's End." Both take place in an inn. Both are stories within a story.

2. "A Tale of Two Cities" - reference to the famous book by Charles Dickens

3. "World's End" is also like the 1001 Arabian Nights, the story in which Sheherazade tells a different story each night to save her own life. It is also a book of stories within a story.

4. cyclopean - cyclops-like (see an encyclopedia for "Cyclops," if you don't know what that is.

5. orient

6. toiling

7. familiarity

8. bear
There will be another journal question posted for homework tomorrow. Homework notebooks will be due again on Friday.