Lena first looked over her test on "The Miracle Worker" and made a few corrections. We then turned our attention the the short story"The Interlopers". I reviewed the definition of interloper as well as some of the vocabulary words from the story, and then placed two questions on the board: Who are the main characters ? What is the setting? I further placed on the board the basic sentence structure to use in answering the questions. We began reading ,but stopped to allow Lena to answer these questions in her notebook which she did very well. In places where there was extensive dialogue ,Lena and I took turns reading the dialogue of the two main characters . She did a very good job comprehending the surprise ending and quite impressively commented," How tragic", which is the best way to describe and capture the story We discussed why the story is tragic, who the "interlopers" are ,and I elaborated on the story's relationship to the events of World War I.