Class discussion notes--Honors English 12

Today, we started discussing the idea of "coming of age." We talked about some of the important qualities, or characteristics, of coming of age stories, considering the following texts:

• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• "This Is How I Remember It" by Betsy Kemper
• "On Turning Ten" by Billy Collins
• "The Journey" by Mary Oliver
• excerpt from Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman

Here are the notes from our discussion...we'll add to this discussion and develop our ideas as we go!