Thursday, January 10 th

1. January is National Get Organized Month! Thursday, January 10th Quick review of book exercises-be ready to be called upon to answer randomly! Talk about Chapter 110: Queequeg in his Coffin. Time to get in your GAM groups to be ready for your presentations on MONDAY! Everyone read 53 (which discusses GAMS) and then read your assigned GAM chapter. Create a “flag” for your GAM. Name, clues to the scene. Come up with your plan. How will you act out the information your GAM chapter presents? Bonus points for creativity and originality. I will be the Pequod. Oh yeah! Quiz tomorrow on unit 7 & 94-96 due . . . can’t wait for these chapters!

2. 93, 110: The Keys to the Universe • “[Pip] saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it” (402). • “And this tattooing , had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his islands, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth . . . So that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold . . . But whose mysteries not even himself could read . . . And this thought it must have been which suggested to Ahab that wild exclamation of his, when one morning turning away from surveying poor Queequeg— ‘Oh, devilish tantalization of the gods!’” (464). • Why would Ahab exclaim “oh, devilish tantalization of the gods” when he looks at Queequeg’s tattoos/coffin carvings? Teasing, tormenting, taunting Fiendish; extreme