Reminder at the start of class: You will have to have your independent novel study completed and handed in on the first day back from the winter break.
Reminder at the start of class: The novel we will be addressing in class is Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Attwood. Please get this from the library and read it (while we will work on this after the holidays, some of you are slower readers, so you want to start reading this now).
Today, we read up to Scene 7 (Page 109) of Girl who Loved Her Horses by Drew Hayden Tayler.
I introduced the following terms as we read:
* Empathy: feeling emotions for others.
* Apathy: not feeling emotions for others.
* Disdain: Unworthy of respect
* Resigned: accepting of one's position in life when it is not all that great.
* Alter-ego: Opposite of our own identifiable characteristics.
* Oblivious: Unaware
* Cliche: An overused expression that loses its power from overuse.
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