As the final exam is next Tuesday, we today began a review of the grammar that will be on the test viz: run-ons, fragments, subject-verb agreement, dangling modifiers, and pronoun-antecedent agreement. Marcos completed a number of grammar exercises on these topics, and we will continue reviewing grammar during the week. Our study of literature this year was selected mostly from the literary canon as opposed to popular fiction or science - fiction. In order to expand our reading selection, I discussed and distributed biographical information on Issac Asimov, the famous Columbia University educated science-fiction writer who wrote the "I,Robot" series of stories that is now a movie and part of popular culture. We discussed how prescient his fictional stories were,and I then distributed an Asimov short story ,"The Machine that Won the War", about Man's over reliance on computers. Marcos was quite familiar with "I Robot" ,but not with Asimov. For homework due Thursday, I assigned grammar exercises on agreement, reading the short story, and answering questions on the story. These questions focus on locating specific language in the text to support and draw inferences.