1. PASSAGES – Include at least three (3) passages per assigned reading section (include page number) REACTIONS – Make sure you analyze and comment on the text here, not just summarize! p. 1 - “...all those eight-by-ten color prints of the Cubs, White Sox, and Bears, junior-high mementos.” p. 2 – “Crawford had tried to prepare him for this. ‘It’s all right, Con, to feel anxious. Allow yourself a couple of bad days, now and then, will you?” p. 5 – “Vaguely he can recall a sense of calm, of peace, that he had laid claim to on leaving the hospital.” Though it doesn’t come right out and say it, I think the setting for the book MAY be Chicago, particularly since all of the sports teams mentioned are from that city. Who is Crawford? The book doesn’t say—why? The character having these “bad days” is named Con, probably short for something. Why should Con feel anxious? What’s his deal? OK—so the narrator here was recently in a hospital, but what for? A medical problem or a mental one? I think the latter and this may prove important later in the book.

2. PASSAGES – Include at least three (3) passages per assigned reading section (include page number) REACTIONS – Make sure you analyze and comment on the text here, not just summarize! p. 1 - “...all those eight-by-ten colorprints of the Cubs, White Sox, and Bears, junior-high mementos.” p. 2 – “Crawford had tried to prepare him for this. ‘It’s all right, Con, to feel anxious. Allow yourself a couple of bad days, now and then, will you?” p. 5 – “Vaguely he can recall a sense of calm, of peace, that he had laid claim to on leaving the hospital.”

3. EXAMPLES – For films, it’s difficult to use direct quotes—so briefly describe the scene, moment or action in the film (3 examples) REACTIONS – Make sure you analyze and comment on the text here, not just summarize! Beginning of the film – over sad music, we see a series of old pictures of poor farmers A father and son have an argument about use of the family car The father (named Cal) has a conversation with his mother just before she dies. She tells her son he needs to see the local priest. Is the film going to be set during a time of poverty—like the Great Depression? The son is clean cut and polite so I don’t understand why the father is so mad and refuses use of the car. Is there something ELSE happening in their relationship? Maybe THIS is why Cal was so upset with his son about the car—he’s sad because his mother was sick. But what’s up with the priest?