> Daily Poem:

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,
by Walt Whitman

When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts, the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the learned astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

> Finish "Six Ways to Start a Narrative" handout (due Friday)

> Begin / Continue drafting your narrative (story)

> Visit library to renew / return / check out choice reading books

> In the garden: Finish reading "Raymond's Run" and answer questions

P. 297 1,3,5,8

Homework: Rough draft of your first 1-2 paragraphs of 'narrative essay' due Friday!