1. Hi!! Please have your questions/theme chart out to be stamped. There will be a quiz at the tench bell sounding.

2. Absalom Day’s Promotion (1892)

3. Small Group Discussion Debate issues while backing up as many answers as you can by referring to the text of the story. What decisions would you have made in Absalom Day’s position? Why? Are executions a deterrent to crime? What do you say? What would the author say? How do you know? Is violence a natural human behavior? What would the author say about this? How do you know? What are some examples of Social Darwinism (survival of the fittest applied beyond biology to society) at work in our society today?

4. Return as a class What decisions would you have made in Absalom Day’s position? Why? Are executions a deterrent to crime? What do you say? What would the author say? Is violence a natural human behavior? What are some examples of Social Darwinism (survival of the fittest applied beyond biology to society) at work in our society today?

5. Ballads Short narrative poem (tells a story) Four lines in each stanzas 2 nd and 4 th lines of each stanza rhyme!!! TASK (OPTIONS) 1.Compose a 4 stanza ballad that details the story of “Absalom Day’s Promotion” 2.Living vicariously as an Australian convict- compose a 4 stanza ballad that details your story.

6. Ballad Stanza Example My name is Absalom Day I stood in front of the crowd Scared, and sure and saying “I’ll do it”! My cap came off- into light went the shroud