Foreign Literature, 1/17, Period 2

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"Hello.

First, you all should have read much of "The Stranger" by Camus over the weekend. In class today, I would like you to pick one question from this study guide and respond to it, then discuss with your classmates and me.

For class on Thursday, please select at least one poem from Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and compare different translations of it. We will talk about it and wrap the French unit early next week.

I am in my office after class for any questions."

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Re: Sign in and class discussion, 1/17

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia signs in and sits down, looking over the question sheet . . . and realizes with a start that what with the trip to New York and the planning of the great Ball Attack, she'd completely forgotten about doing her homework.

She quickly looked over the questions, trying to see if there was anything she could answer using the information she remembered from the study sheet, which she'd skimmed Thursday evening. She hesitantly raised her hand.

"Question two, about the old people judging him? He wasn't reacting to his mother's death the way everyone expected him to. He wasn't even willing to pretend to be upset, because he thought that would be dishonest, and he believed in honesty over . . . just about anything else. He was especially concerned about the older people, because they're so much closer to death, I think, and because they're more likely to be set in their ways and be afraid and judgemental of anything that seems different, or, well, strange to them."

God, she hoped she hadn't just sounded like an idiot. She wanted to do well, she really did, but hey, this was the first time she'd really been expected to do homework, she couldn't always remember it, could she?

Re: Sign in and class discussion, 1/17

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If Dream can tell she hasn't done the reading, it doesn't show. "Thank you, Ms. Santos."