PHOTOS SEASONS 5 and ON

TWO NEW MEMBERS IN VALLEY CENTER! LOOKS LIKE WE COORDINATED THESE OUTFITS!

TRYING NOT TO GET LEISH IN BONSALL

OUR SECOND POTLUCK FOR GHETTOSIDE

DANG WE MAKE YUMMY POTLUCKS!

BEST DESSERT AWARDS GO TO TIFFANY AND KIM!

CUPCAKES AND OUR CLUB...WE HAVE A RELATIONSHIP. CUPCAKES SHOULD BE THE 11TH MEMBER OF OUR GROUP FOR SURE.

MIRROR SELFIES AT JULIE'S

CUPCAKES AT GALE'S!

WE ALMOST HAD ALL TEN OF US AT THIS MEETING (JULIE AT THE HOSP. WITH NICKY).

ATLANTIS GENE COMEDY SHOW...LOTS OF LAUGHS THIS NIGHT

GOING DEEP INTO THE AFTERLIFE WITH ICE CREAM COOKIE SANDWICHES!

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S 7.5 - Discussion Questions for Atonement

1. What sort of social and cultural setting does the Tallis house create for the novel? What is the mood of the house, as described in chapter 12? What emotions and impulses are being acted upon or repressed by its inhabitants? How does the careful attention to detail affect the pace of Part One, and what is the effect of the acceleration of plot events as it nears its end? 2. A passion for order, a lively imagination, and a desire for attention seem to be Briony's strongest traits. In what ways is she still a child? Is her narcissism—her inability to see things from any point of view but her own—unusual in a thirteen-year-old? Why does the scene she witnesses at the fountain change her whole perspective on writing? What is the significance of the passage in which she realizes she needs to work from the idea that "other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal value" [p. 38]? Do her actions be

S7.1 Club Discussion Questions: Giant, Edna Ferber

"Bigger. Biggest ranch. Biggest steer. Biggest hat. Biggest state. A mania for Bigness. What littleness did it hide?" P. 199 1.Why did Ferber name her story Giant and how was her message/lesson connected to that? 2. When Giant was released in 1952, Edna Ferber made many in the south angry with what they felt was an unfair characterization of southern culture and its customs.The Dallas Morning News headline on Lon Tinkle’s review read “Ferber Goes Both Native and Berserk: Parody, Not Portrait, of Texas Life.” Do you feel Southerners had a right to be angry? What are some specific instances you can remember described in the story that would warrant that reaction? 3. It was a big deal in 1952 American to have a female author write about race and discriminatory practices in the South, especially using a female protagonist such as the character of Leslie to paint a disparaging picture of life in Texas at the time. What do think would have been the reaction of differen

S7.3 The Secret Lives of Colors Discussion

The Secret Lives of Colors by Kassia St. Clair "Colors, therefore, should be understood as subjective cultural creations: you could no more meaningfully secure a precisie universal definition for all the known shades than you could plot the coordinates of a dream" page 27. First of all....ROLE CALL: what is your favorite color! 1. On PRISMS and Newton...and his eye dagger. FUN* (*incredibly disturbing) FACT ALERT! When Newton was 24 he discovered that the color spectrum is contained within white light. YAY! When he was 23, sent home from college because of an outbreak of the plague, he spent that time sticking a bodkin - this small dagger - into his eye. BOO! Newton was famously interested in optics and the nature of light. However, he was also interested in the visual stimulus, and the physiological processes by which objective reality is perceived by us. So, to address this question, Sir Isaac Newton thought it

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