Sam shared "Thank Me for That" by Tyler Braden and we discussed how poetry was meant to be heard and that song lyrics are lyrical poetry. He identified allusions and explained why they are important to universal communication. We discussed the theme of loyalty and paying the price, a precursor to studying John Knowles's novel "A Separate Peace." We discussed authors collaborating and how Tyler Braden did not pen the lyrics but that it was a collaboration of song writers. We discussed how he is learning the MLA format and how and what a works cited page is. We discussed how it is acceptable to respectfully disagree and discuss differences in theme in literature and how to formulate a literary claim or comment in a piece of writing and cite textual evidence to support it via quotations.