Emailed Katya two handouts: "Poetry" my guidelines for discussing any poem, and a poem by Raymond Carver entitled "Happiness." Carefully went through the "Poetry" handout to make sure Katya grasped the concepts and terms. Katya read the poem outloud. Katya suggested the poem should really be renamed "Morning" because the poem is about a morning. That comment led to a discussion of how important it is to see the significance of the ending of something. E.g., the final tone of a conversation or the final mood of a play. That led to a full discussion of the last six lines of the poem and the philosophical and psychological statement the narrator is making about happiness: it comes on unexpectedly and it goes beyond words. Gave Katya a writing assignment, asking her to use the poem to jump into a discussion of happiness from her own perspective. Google Doc to be written out as a draft to be discussed tomorrow at 1 p.m.