TODAY IN CLASS
 . . . was sufficiently varied in the three classes that I simply don't have the time at the moment to summarize exactly where we picked up in each section.  Suffice to say that we finished "The Chrysanthemums" (though you will see that nothing in AP Lit is ever really off the table until at least the AP exam in May, and others not until the end of class in June). 

Turning to Atonement, we briefly discussed fate, accidents, human tragedy, and literary tragedy all as prelude to consideration of how Briony is not the only character whose all-too-human mixture of personality traits and predilections help produce the unfortunate sequence of events. And we are at various points of considering our early-in-the-book view of the three central characters:
1st--Briony on an earlier day; Cecilia today; we'll start with Robbie tomorrow
3rd--Have we even worked with Briony??
6th--Briony today; Cecilia and Robbie tomorrow
Robbie seems to be getting short shrift; I hope some of you review his reflections on the the fountain scene (Ch.8) even if you 've already reviewed Cecilia.

Not sure you were all prepared re: pp. 25-29 in the main text.  Fix that, please.  And be sure to have read pp. 5-16.  We'll want these basic terms/examples of genre to be "shared territory" as we launch the rest of the stories next week.

Also, I've mentioned trying to articulate specific stages between sin/guilt and atonement in several posts.  It's time to make sure you've done that.