2. Hundert means that sometimes when something bad happens to you, you use it to drive you to succeed. Hundert thinks Sedgewick felt like the "Mr. Julius Caesar" Contest and the loss of his intellectual honor" (183) embarrassed him, so it made him want to try harder in his life.
3. Skip or do for extra-credit
4. Hundert means that all of his identity was put into being a teacher and his love of history and without it he feels lost. He says he often sees himself and thinks, "Is that you?" and "What now?" (186).
Today we will:
- Review the notes below on the reading we missed
- Pre-read the text-based questions for this section to help us annotate
- Read pages 187-91 and annotate using our annotation bookmarks
- Answer text-based questions using the RACE format for pages 187-91
- Watch the movie of this section (and slightly ahead)
Pages 182-187
- Thirty-seven years have passed.
- Sedgewick Bell is not the CEO of the 2nd largest company in America: EastAmerica Steel
- Hundert is about to retire, and St. Benedict's asks him to call Sedgewick and ask for a donation.
- Sedgewick agrees on 1 condition: that Hundert offer him a rematch of the "Mr. Julius Caesar. Contest" (the one where he lost to Deepak Mehta because of Hundert)--same contestants, same kids from their class in the audience.
- Hundert is surprised that Sedgewick is so friendly and agrees to the contest.
- Hundert retires and is really bored.
- He is happy he has the competition to prepare for because it keeps him busy
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