9/30/16 Sean Finnegan

Today's class was rather quiet and uneventful with Mr. Rivers being absent we were left to work on our intertexuality essays. After what seemed like a slow start with half of us not even having a book picked out a month ago it seems like everyone has gotten their footing on this project. Most if not everyone has finished their novel and moved on to watching the film adaptation or started pre-writing. Class today was a good day to get organized and start to figure out how our essays are going to look. A good number of students in this period chose to read American Sniper including myself the auto-biography written by the deadliest sniper in American history Chris Kyle. The novel itself spans much deeper into his training and life prior to becoming a Navy Seal than the movie does. Something that is expected to happen with film adaptations but some what surprising considering the amount that is learned about him in the first few chapters of the novel. In all today's class was sluggish with it being Friday and also having a substitute everyone was steadily working but feeling a little drained after the long week. I am confident that everything will pick up again on Monday after everyone goes home and rests for the weekend.