Week+8+10.20-10.24

__Friday, 10.24.08__
No class today!

__Thursday, 10.23.08__
Today the class wrote and shared journal entries on chapter 17. After sharing with partners, the class continued the novel individually. I was home with a splitting migraine.

__Wednesday, 10.22.08__
Irony was the order of the day. Ironic that Alanis Morrisette's song so clearly misrepresents the topic don't you think? After defining the term and providing examples of dramatic, situational, and verbal irony, we looked for and discussed the abundance of examples from the novel.

__Tuesday, 10.21.08__
Today we read chapter 17 and talked about Salinger's original short story entitled //A Slight Rebellion off Madison//. Full text of the original New Yorker story that would eventually serve as the basis for the novel is linked [|here].

We then worked in groups to provide chapter titles for chapter 1-20.

__**Monday, 10.20.08**__
Today we discussed Salinger's use of symbolism in //The Catcher in the Rye//. We discussed The Museum of Natural History as a symbol of Holden's childhood. The class wrote paragraphs on the museum's symbolic significance.