During the first quarter of the session , we discussed Henry James' letter to a friend wherein he purports to respond to the novel's central question: Is Daisy an innocent, a flirt ,or a societal rebel.We discussed James' explanation that the novella is a tragedy illustrating how an innocent , uncultured girl, oblivious to societal norms ,is sacrificed to a social order she does not understand or appreciate. On the board, we began a thematic analysis of how the societal norms are reflective of a societal patriarchy as these mores clearly do not apply to Winterborne, a man. During the remainder of the session, Joshua participated in school wide safety drills.