2. Do Now Read
“Revenge of the geeks” p. 225 answer the first three comprehension check questions (p.227) Include a page number for each answer

3. Comprehension Check
1. According to the author, taylor swifts school classmates left the lunch table because they disliked her taste in music. “Taylor swifts classmates left the lunch table as soon as she sat down because they disdained her taste for country music.” (225)

4. Comprehension Check
2. According to the psychology professor Kathryn LaFontana, the worst thing in the world for teenagers is being different from other people which makes someone unpopular. “ In a rabitly conformist school environment, the qualities that make people different make them targets.” (226)

5. Comprehension Check
3. Robbins believes that adults should constantly convey to teenagers that what makes them different may pay off after graduation. “That’s why it’s up to adults to convey constantly to teenagers that the characteristics that marginalize them can pay off after graduation“(226)

6. Diction vs. syntax
*Diction (553/210) -Denotation and connotation -Plain or ornate or both *syntax (731/210) -Parallelism

7. Theme

8. Receive story and group assignments
Group 1 “The Doll’s House
Group 2 “Encountering the other: the challenge for the 21st century”
Group 3 “Sonnet, with bird,” “elliptical,” and “ fences.”

9. Homework Group 1 “The Doll’s House
Read your story
Answer the first three comprehension questions
Group 2 “Encountering the other: the challenge for the 21st century”
Read the lecture
Group 3 “Sonnet, with bird,” “elliptical,” and “ fences.”
Read the three poems
Answer all of the comprehension questions