even if they said that their conclusions include an urgent need to buy guns. yikes, what have I done?!
yes, we just finished Doris Lessing's Memoirs of a Survivor and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and we're moving on to Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Orhan Pamuk's Snow, and the outlook is pretty grim.
the group, however, is a delight. 13 students, about half of them finishing this semester. an honors section. 6-9pm and they get there early and leave late. next week we don't have class because there's a campus-wide meeting during the day (so why can't we have class, they asked? will we have it online if we don't get to meet?). and the week after we're going to a speaker (one of our authors!) so there's no class then either. in fact, because we'll meet once online during the time we're working on Snow, there are actually only 2 class meetings left. they were shocked. I was kind of surprised myself.
what a pleasure. but I'll have to think about those conclusions. English teacher instigates arms? literature at arms? have gun, will read?
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