December 9, 2016 -- Friday

On board:
1. warm-up 
2. 4 dead deer on a the lawn of a house near NEIU (!!!?!)
3. if Monday is a Snow Day and the University is closed... (the review hand-out will be here on the blog, as a separate entry)
4. Loren Eisley story, "The Fifth Planet"
5. Powers

Warm-up 

 (this can be helpful in dealing with the stress of exam period or other stressful times)

Close your eyes.  Wait.

What sounds do you hear?

Can you hear 4 sounds?

Write down 4 sounds, or as many sounds as you can.

Close your eyes again.

Can you smell anything?

Can you smell 2 or 3 aromas?

Write down 2 aromas, or as many as you can.

What we know about what has happened in Powers, so far

1 Gav   (walked away, escaped)

2 Sallo (murdered by Torm and Hoby)

3 Ettera (the city where they are growing up when the story begins)

4 Arcamand (The House where they are enslaved child workers when the story begins)

5 Cuga (the man in the cave, with the dog, who takes Gav in for a while and feeds him)

6  men of the forest (Cuga sends Gav to them to be warmer and better fed...Gav tells them the stories of the literature he has read -- remembering what he has read is one of his powers)

7 Barna (the founder and ruler of "The Heart of the Forest", a successful community of escaped slaves)

8 Diero (former mistress of Barna, now older, befriends Gav)

9 Irad (very beautiful young girl who is Barna's mistress now)

10 Melle (younger sister of Irad whom Gav is teaching to read, along with Irad and Diero)

11 the Marshes (Gav's destination when he escapes from "The Heart of the Forest", and also the place he was originally kidnapped from)

12 Aunt Gegemer  (Gav's aunt in the Marshes, sister of his dead mother)

13 Uncle Metter (Gav lives with him for a while in the Marshes)

14 True Name (Gav has known only his first name up until this point)

15  Gav's power of unreliably but vividly seeing the future (Gav will study with a magician farther south, taking drugs to increase the number and depth of his visions/hallucinations)

"The Fifth Planet" by Loren Eisley -- the class read and talked about Section I,and we noted down the information that we have so far, just from reading this section

1 planet is Jupiter

2 name: Williams

3 name: Radnor -- amateur astronomer, likes meteors, looks for "bones in the stars"

4 "I", the narrator -- also a "bone hunter"

sheep

Homework:

1. finish Powers and write responses to the last 3 chapters

2. finish "The Fifth Planet," if you can, and write one statement about it

3. prepare questions to ask during the review on Monday

4. REMEMBER THAT THE EXAM WILL BE AT 8:00 A.M. on Wednesday in LWH 2005