Today is the second class in our new four class set. We are going to change up the class format. We will spend the first ten minutes of class on our daily conversation. The remainder of the class will be dedicated to reading and discussing The Pearl by John Steinbeck.

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Kino's breath whistled in his nostrils and he opened his mouth to stop it. And then the

startled look was gone from him and the rigidity from his body. In his mind a new song

had come, the Song of Evil, the music of the enemy, of any foe of the family, a savage,

secret, dangerous melody, and underneath, the Song of the Family cried plaintively.