For tomorrow: Write your Nacirema paper, at least one page typed, but it can be longer. Choose some tradition/ ritual/habit/ activity and describe it using a point of view from way outside of our own culture. I look forward to reading your clever and imaginative responses to this assignment.


Start Haroun and the Sea of Stories. It is due next Wednesday. Remember to think of the larger questions: Why is storytelling important? Why must one defend literature against tyranny? (censorship/freedom of speech). Mark passages in the book that will help you to respond to these questions.