After reading a few pages of "Catcher in the Rye", we discussed the symbolic significance of Holden's searching for the ducks in Central Park in the middle of winter as well as the significance of his dropping and breaking the record he purchased for his sister,Phoebe. I then projected a series of short answer questions onto Bobby's screen which he answered. Again , we worked on using the question's format to locate a subject and verb to incorporate into the answer. Bobby 's confidence in formulating answers to literary short answer questions is increasing as we continue this exercise. In the context of the breaking of the children's record Holden purchased for his younger sister, Bobby addressed its significance in terms of representing the"shattering " of innocence and composed sentences avoiding the awkward "is when" / "is because" construction that some students rely upon in answering the short answer question. I have assigned reading Shirley Jackson's short story "Charles" for our next session on Wednesday.