Today, students were give a news article assignment that is due on Friday. See the handout for more information. Also, students handed in their homework on the poem "Richard Cory". Some did not finish the last part of the handout which asked them to note the similarities between the poem and The Outsiders and then list the differences between the two works. Please complete this tonight if you have not already finished it. Here is a copy of the poem to help you.
Richard Cory
by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
“Good-morning,” and he glittered when he walked.
And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, on calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
