Evening Guys.
I'm on my way up to the apartment to work on the last bit of Hamlet and to answer your questions. There is a quiz on the Hamlet resource page. I need your answers by Monday at noon. I will get comments back to you ASAP. Monday we will start reading about satire, it is essential for understanding both Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels) and Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn). I will post links this weekend to the reading material. Satire can be simply wicked :) But you need the tools to unlock the comedy.
I'm actually really enjoying interacting with the two of you. Educational research indicates strongly that kids that completely 'turn off' for the summer can lose up to two months of critical thinking and high level reasoning skills. This is particularly applicable to the smarter students. If they're not challenged constantly with interesting material then the lower level skills are too heavily relied upon when they start school again in the Autumn Term. It's really cool your Mom recognizes that you two are too smart to be "thought free" for the whole summer. Don't think of this as tutoring, but more of a high level book club. Please come to me with questions, ideas, or thoughts on checking your understanding. You're both very different boys and you should both be getting different things from the texts we're reading.
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