1. Inspired by “HALF a DAY” and/or “A NEW PERSPECTIVE” – write about an experience in your childhood. 
2. QUOTES from HALF a DAY – choose one and write
   • “My mother … I would turn toward her … as though appealing for help.”
   • “School’s not a punishment.  It’s a factory that makes useful men out of boys.”
   • “Be a man.”
   • “Dry your tears and face life joyfully.”
   • “We submitted to the facts, and this submission brought a sort of contentment.”
   • “As our path revealed itself to us, however, we did not find it as totally sweet and unclouded as we had presumed.”
   • “The time for changing one’s mind was over and gone and there was no question of ever returning to the paradise of home.”
   • “Nothing lay ahead of us but exertion, struggle, and perseverance.”
   • “Those who were able, took advantage of the opportunities for success and happiness that presented themselves amid the worries.”
   • “As you can see, not all that good, the Almighty be praised!”
   • “I was in a daze.  My head spun.  I almost went crazy.”
   • “Let fire take its pleasure in what it consumes.”
3. Disagreements sometimes arise when what we want to do differs from what others want us to do.  Has anyone ever expected you to do something you really didn’t want to do? Write about your experience and how you felt before, during, and after.
4. Considering your own life experiences, “HALF a DAY,” and / or “TWO KINDS” – respond to the following prompt:
   • • Discuss the significance of  idealism and truth in an individual’s life.
     • After writing for 5 min – revise for 2 minutes using SYNTAX lesson from Wednesday.
5. Two Kinds – “Only two kinds of daughters.  Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!  Only one kind of daughter can live in this house.  Obedient daughter!”
6. Two Kinds – Letter from mother to daughter before her death
7. Two Kinds – 3 prompts
   1. Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the strength of an individual’s convictions when dealing with the expectations of others.
   2. Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the ways in which the feelings of satisfaction and regret influence an individual’s actions.
   3. Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the impact of an individual’s ambition on self and others.
8. Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the ways in which the feelings of satisfaction and regret influence an individual’s actions.
9. When have you pre-judged someone because you didn’t know them?  Or, when have you been prejudged before someone got to know you?
   • What happened before you knew them, when you got to know them, after you got to know them?
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“There is darkness in the midst of the light, darkness as black as the ill-fated night.  Silence.”

OR

“Ruins peopled by ghosts who dwell there to taunt us.”

14.  MOTIFS from POISON of the BLUE ROSE

15. PROMPT:

•  … about the role EMOTIONAL COURAGE PLAYS WHEN AN INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES SEPARATION.

16.  Write a Character Analysis for Jing-Mei from Two Kinds, Narrator for Cathedral, Narrator for Poison of the Blue Rose, or Jack from Paper Menagerie