Independent reading for 20 minutes.
In class, Great Books discussion. What are Sherlock Holmes values? And how do we know? 5 minutes for pre-writing, 20 minutes for discussion, another 5 minutes for post-discussion writing.
After break, students will engage in wordplay via the Sherlock Holmes crossword, either in small groups or in pairs. You MUST work together, sharing clues and finding answers. But words and clues must be VERBALLY exchanged. You can share answers by talking about them. You may NOT simply copy answers. Wordplay and vocabulary building is the goal!
HW: Last chance to add annotations to your story, based on the discussion in class. These will be collected on Wednesday!

Second reading assessment, this one written by New Trier English Department. This will take the entire period.
HW: Spend another 30 minutes working on the crossword before class on Friday.

First 20 minutes, independent reading.
We will watch a modern re-interpretation of “The Five Orange Pips,” different in that a) it’s set in early 21st century New York, b) Watson is a Chinese-American woman, and c) the orange pips aren’t seeds, but plastic beads relating to a children’s toy, safety recall.
Introducing our short story unit, the first of which is “Run” by Trevor Noah.
HW: Read and annotate the story. Besides circling vocabulary (adding to the words I’ve marked) and writing your questions as reader, you should keep notes on a) the narrator’s relationship with religion and b) the organization of the story.