Brandon had a major research paper due this week, so we spent our time devising an outline and finding appropriate passages from the class readings to corroborate his research topic. While we have a good idea of where to go, the teacher's essay topic was written in a very cryptic way (many questions asked, but no particular task mentioned). We had to spend some time interpreting the task at hand. We have some nice things to go on, and Brandon will begin writing tomorrow.