Tuesday, 10/8: Death and Life

* Open

• Grammar: In this mowing should be like ones' prayers(?) all of a sort and always the same(?) and so made that you can establish a monahtony and work them(?) as it were(?) with half your mind(?) that happyer half (?) the half that does not bother.
• ATTENTION! (Reno's 7th period will take the quiz on Thursday) 
• Quiz Reminders:  Review the following:
• Terms and Vocabulary
• Notes and Nails (including your grammar sentences)
• Stories
• Hilaire Belloc: "The Mowing of a Field"
• Edgar Allen Poe: "The Masque of the Red Death" 
• G. K. Chesterton: "A Piece of Chalk"
• "Ali Baba and the Forty Robbers"
• "Esther"

* Read the following essay:

G.B. Shaw, Hilaire Belloc, and G.K. Chesterton

• "The Mowing of a Field" by Hilaire Belloc

 * Take Notes (not a full journal; just a few sentences): Compare the atmosphere and tone of "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Mowing of a Field"

HW: Review your notes for tomorrow's midterm

Walk the wonderlands with Belloc.

The Oldest Mowing Method

Next oldest: the scythe. Steep Swiss mountains discourage machinery...plus the Swiss are awesome...even more awesome than Cowboys, even of the Dallas variety...especially if you're Jordan Myer.

A Harvesting Team

Prettier Harvesting Team

Bieber? Sounds weak; I'm marrying a strong man.