-Using "The Week", focus on two articles about the problems of the Euro and US home mortgages.
.Dollar value to Euro (determinants)
.Source of the Euro problems
.How it will affect the US economy
-2nd article:
.Lost value of houses in US
.Impact on loans and owners
.Possible causes (Use economic concepts)

1)Outline Persuasive Essay: Persuade a non-native of Israel to visit the country. What is appealing about culture in Israel? Why is it important to visit even if you are not Jewish?
2)Begin Writing Persuasive Essay: Introduction, first main point.

1)Cole and I finished reading the "Saudi Women" article together.
2) Cole had an essay exam on the reading based on three short response questions from the reading.

-Cole was very keen to finally come full circle with the poem and its uses of lyricism for our essay introduction
-breaking down syntax, line lenth, meter and punctuation of a line for finding its hidden meaning to Dickinson: 'how does structure of a line and stanza dictate what Emily is saying without saying it in words?'
-review of a rhetorical question by James in the second paragraph of the 'Conversion' excerpt: readiness of spiritual conversion as it applies to Dickinson's response to her own loss of friends and loved ones
-take Emily and make her a contemporary living in Cole's world as a teenager, describe her feelings, her sheltered life, and why it all channels into her prolific writing
-defining postumous fame as a term for the essay title, and what drives Dickinson and other poets we've read (Reothke, Ginsburg, Plath, Middle Eastern anthology) to strive for permanence.
-'why does a writer consider their words important enough to take raw life experience and make it lasting in words?' for future generations / for their postumous collected works / for those who never knew them while they were living

-Emily Dickinson life and letters biographical background
-why are poems categorized/anthologized/indexed by first lines, i.e., 'Split the Lark and you'll find the music'
-how does just 1 of some 2,000 poems tie back to spiritual love and loss; how does James on conversion still find relevance to the poem's loss of loved ones and resultant spiritual reconection?
-highlighted adn underlined phrases from poem and James excerpt for essay beginning
-rapid-fire q&a on hemingway character analysis

-essay discussion of first two sections on lived experience and converstion/spirituality as described in William James, 'The Varieties of Religious Experience'
-outline adn highlight section of excerpt from chapter 'Conversion' and tie back to our discussion of Dickinson poem on love/death as/and a spiritual loss

Cole was asked to finish reading the article that he did not complete for homework, and answer the three questions about the article at its end.

1) Read "Women in Saudi Arabia" Article
2) Discussion Questions: What do Western Women Think About the Burqa? How do Saudi women view the wardrobe restrictions within their own country? Do they see it as un-empowering?

1)Explain how descriptive writing evokes certain images and leaves a dominant impression in readers.
2)Provide an Example of Descriptive Writing through the work "The Miss Dennis School of Writing"
3)Ask Cole to Describe an event/trip in his life that left him with a dominant impression.

-Complete government exam