Will took his vocabulary quiz this morning, scoring an easy 18/18 points! After discussing the "clues" in the sentence and how the questions were structured via SAT style, Will and I moved on to discuss his writing prompt. Today, Will was asked to respond to this issue: "Should comics/graphic novels be taught in high schools along with Shakespeare and Dickens?" Will had a lot to say about this topic, and we spent some time discussing the literary canon, its formation and determination of what is/is not considered literature. After our discussion, Will provided a response, saying that he thought that graphic novels offered something that works like Shakespeare and Dickens do not: accessibility, visual stimulation, and a greater invitation into reading by the writer. We ended our lesson with a brief reading of Watchmen, and a discussion of the setting and characters are introduced in the beginning of the work.