Will completed his essay on “Why I Write” in class today. We had great discussions around this assignment, as he reflected on what made writing easy or hard. We discussed how communicating in words is so different from talking. We also discussed on demand writing verses writing for pleasure. Will did an awesome job on this assignment. Then, I introduced our next unit of study. We will be exploring the topic of “human nature”. Will is going to be studying and then taking a position on the fundamental “goodness/evilness” of human nature.