Friday, October 13, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                            Let's plan to go to the Graveyard on Friday, October 13.                                             The term ends on October 18, and   the last day to hand in late or make-up work is October 11.   Fall Break is October 19, 20, 23.

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Today’s  Agenda: How to find a ghoul gate: Find the description in The Graveyard Book of ghoul gates. pg. 61       "One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls.  Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it -- waterstained and bulging, with cracked or broken stone, scraggly grass or rank weeds about it, and a feeling when you reach it, of abandonement.  It may be colder than the other gravestones, too, and the name on the stone is all too often impossible to read.   If there is a statue on the grave it will be headless or so scabbed with fungus and lichens as to look like a fungus itself.  If one grave in a graveyard looks like a target for petty vandals, that is the ghoul-gate.  If the grave makes you want to be somewhere else, that is the ghoul-gate.       There was one in Bod's graveyard.     There is one in every graveyard." pg. 74 "Bod stopped beside a grave that  looked the way he felt:  it was beneath an oak that had once been struck by lightning, and was now just a black trunk, like a sharp talon coming out of the hill; the grave itself was waterstained and cracked, and above it was a memorial stone on which a headless angel hung, its robes looking like a huge and ugly tree-fungus."

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