Post your blogged slice to schoology by the start of class Friday.
On a freeing day like today, even getting up early was easier, and, during that extra time, I felt pleased as I read an article about the correlation between reading literary fiction and developing empathy. As a teacher who recognizes Language Arts as a medium to "teach life"- not what kids should think, but that they should think - I suspect the correlation between reading texts of literary merit and growing the ability of your brain to 'know' people and care for them as your own lies in the Being John Malkovich-esque experience of being in the character's heart and mind to vicariously weigh decisions in a landmine field of competing internal and external conflict penned with subtleties of the writer's craft, not the heavy-handed fauz-real-life of sleazy 'beach' reads or modern best-sellers where the protagonists seems bound to keel over from an overdose of adrenaline. So, when many are undermining their self-possesion and interpersonal power, why not grow with the optimism of being free, unencumbered, better?