Week 6
Class Ground Rules
Read all the assignments before class.
Keep yourself on mute unless called on.
Raise your hands electronically.
Focus your comments only on the question at hand rather than straying to other parts of the story.
Discuss the author's story, not your own story.
Refrain from offering a review of the whole story or jumping to the end.
Try to support your comments by referring to details from the text.
Listen to and respond to others with respect.
READ (at least twice): "Eyewall," pp. 84-100. (Published in Florida, 2018.)
A woman rides out a monster hurricane, curled in a bathtub for shelter with bottles of wine.
Think About:
The storm.
The house.
The neighbor.
The three ghosts.
The chicken and the egg.
Eyewall
The eyewall is a hurricane's most devastating region, located just outside of the eye, which is the calmest. The eyewall has the most damaging winds and intense rainfall.Â
Purely Optional
Listen to Lauren Groff read her description of the hurricane from "Eyewall."