UFC 126

UFC 126

This is the deepest card UFC has put in ages. Top to bottom, there are fights and fighters I want to see. Heck, there are a few of the prelim fights that aren't going to be airing on SpikeTV that could probably headline a Fight Night on their own. Kid Yamamoto vs. Demetrius Johnson, I'm looking at you.

Chad Mendes vs. Michihiro Omigawa - This is Omigawa's reintroduction to the UFC, who previously fought at lightweight, but I don't like his chances against Mendes. Omigawa has lost to wrestlers in the past, and Mendes, making his UFC debut after finding a lot of success in the featherweight division of WEC, is tremendously good. I expect Chad Mendes to win by decision in an excellent three round war.

Donald Cerrone vs. Paul Kelly - Donald Cerrone's SpikeTV prelim fight is representative of a lot of things for all of the former WEC lightweights that are hoping to make the transition from the old company to their new UFC home. Cerrone has to be able to rise above the fact that he's no longer the big fish in the small pond. The UFC's lightweight division is now packed with talent thanks to the WEC merger, to the point that name fighters who don't win are more likely to get cut. There's also the added pressure of proving that WEC's lightweight division wasn't second rate, that Cerrone, a guy on top in the WEC, belongs in the big leagues of the UFC 155 pound weight class. Paul Kelly is a brawler, much like Cerrone, but he doesn't have the ground skills Cerrone possesses. I suspect that Cerrone will tap Kelly out in the second round of an exciting fight, since the Cowboy has a tendency to start late.

Miguel Torres vs. Antonio Banuelos - Torres is a former WEC Bantamweight Champion who hit a roadblock in 2009, losing two in a row. He won his last fight in decisive fashion and appears to have turned the corner on his comeback; this fight will cement whether or not that's the case. Banuelos is always known as a guy that has great fights but often chokes when it comes to getting the win when it really matters. This will be the first time that the bantamweights get to really show off in the UFC, and I expect it to be a slobberknocker of epic proportions. Torres has the better ground game and a bit of an edge in the stand up. As long as his chin holds, I expect Torres to win by decision but expect a fight of the night calibre battle.

Jon Jones vs. Ryan Bader - Man, this fight! Almost two years ago, there was talk of a Shane Carwin/Cain Velasquez bout that seemed ludicrous at the time since a loss for one of those guys essentially eliminated a high-profile name from title contention for a long time. That fight never happened, to the benefit of the UFC, but Bader and Jones are facing off. One is an unmovable object: Bader has had an impressive eight finishes out of his undefeated 12 fight career. He's a wrestler that doesn't spend much time on his back and can knock another guy silly with just one punch. The other guy is about as close to an unstoppable force as anyone will ever see in MMA: Jones has grown by leaps and bounds, growing from an elite wrestler transitioning to MMA to a well-rounded fighter who can strike with the best of them. He's also literally still growing -- the guy is only 23 years old. Jones has pinpoint accuracy with his knees, elbows and fists and an ability with his long limbs to out-grapple anyone. Short of Shogun Rua (current light-heavyweight champ) or Rashad Evans (Jones' training partner that he refuses to consider fighting), I cannot imagine anyone in the light-heavyweight division giving Jon Jones a problem, let alone a challenge. At the same time, his performance here will really show how far he's progressed. Stranger things have happened, but Bader, in my mind, doesn't stand a chance. Jones will take the win by TKO in the first, and hopefully move on to face the winner of the semi-main event.

Jake Ellenberger vs. Carlos Eduardo Rocha - There are occasions where I don't know enough about the fighters to give a proper breakdown. This is one of those times. So I flipped a coin. Ellenberger will win by split decision.

Forrest Griffin vs. Rich Franklin - In the interest of full disclosure, Forrest Griffin is my wife's favorite fighter. Unfortunately, he's been on the shelf for a year due to a shoulder injury. Franklin is also coming off a long layoff since he broke his arm in his knockout victory over Chuck Liddell last June. To me, this is the toughest fight to call of the entire night. It could easily go either way, and largely depends on which version of Forrest Griffin shows up. Will we see the guy that is patient and picks his spots, capitalizing on the mistakes of his opponent en route to victory? Or will we see the reckless Forrest that makes clumsy mistakes out of stubbornness and stupidity? Forrest has largely been his own worst enemy in the cage. He's a guy that can beat himself long before the fight ever starts. Franklin, meanwhile, always approaches his fights with a solid game plan, and it's the skill of Franklin's opponent that determines if he is effective in implementing it. My gut says that Franklin will win by split decision, but my wife and I will be stoked if Forrest can pull it off.

Vitor Belfort vs. Anderson Silva (c) for the UFC Middleweight Championship - There are people that live and die by Anderson Silva fights. Either they're cheering for his demise because they see him as a cocky guy who feels he's above the sport, or they view him as a dude whose talents as the pound-for-pound king of MMA excuse his sometimes lackluster performances in the cage. I'm not either of those guys. Granted, I lost my mind during the build-up to his fight with Chael Sonnen, but, fortunately for everyone involved, Sonnen lost in the last half of the fifth round and we later found out he was a dirty cheater. That fight revealed that gigantic holes exist in Anderson Silva's game. He's susceptible to the takedown, and while Silva is adept at finding a submission off his back, a fighter who can avoid or defend said submissions has a strong chance of beating the premiere middleweight in the UFC.

But Vitor Belfort? Does he have that takedown ability? No. Is his ground and pound among the best in the world, let alone the division? Not even a little bit. Vitor Belfort is the best one-round stand-up fighter in the world, probably at any weight class. He might even have the wherewithal to beat Silva at the stand-up game...but only in the first round. I mentioned earlier that Forrest Griffin can be his own worst enemy; he's got nothing on Vitor Belfort in that department. Belfort, probably due to the hype he received when he was younger, has never had the mental strength to make a dent in the sport. He consistently breaks during fights, and that's where he is beaten.

Anderson Silva plays the mental game in both subtle and obvious ways, and should he not respect Belfort, which is a distinct possibility considering the latter has never even fought at middleweight in the UFC before, Silva will destroy his opponent. Belfort is one of the quickest and most accurate strikers in the game, but Silva is just as good, and he's shown the ability to last through adversity. Belfort folds faster than a chair when put to the test. I suspect that Silva will clinch the victory with a third or fourth round submission.

Humble Pie

In the before time...

When I was a lot younger than I am now, a pie in the face was the funniest gag I had ever seen. The Three Stooges, I Love Lucy and countless other old timey, slapsticky programs all provided countless examples of why a big pile of cream and filling -- whether thrown from a distance or slammed up close -- is the height of comedy. I started making it known that getting a pie in the face would be a dream come true. Come Thanksgiving, my Uncle Tom snuck up behind me and waylaid me with  a tin full of whip cream. It wasn't quite a pie, but it was a pie equivalent and the sentiment behind it was the thing that really counted.

The aftermath

For those of you unaware, I volunteered to be eligible for the Pie a Teacher in the Face fundraiser that the International Awareness club held Friday during lunch. The group's efforts raised money for Invisible Children, a group designed to help end the combat that utilizes child soldiers in northern Uganda.  People who donated money to the club chose a teacher from those eligible and the top four teachers from each lunch received a pie in the kisser. The sticky hair and sour smell in my nose for the remainder of the day was worth it because the cause is something I can get behind. Plus, it was a nice reminder of days gone by with my family.

I included the video of the pie-facing at the bottom underneath the cut.

Frosh
Monday through Thursday were all focused on reading through the first two scenes of Romeo & Juliet. The beginning always takes awhile, but we did manage to get through most of the second scene. We detailed the idea of spectacle and how Shakespeare uses it to engage the audience who might not be all that interested in a teenage love story otherwise. Plus, we get our first look at Rom-emo, but you'll get annoyed with him before too long. Mercutio is where it's at but we haven't met him quite yet.

Friday, we moved forward.

Seniors

On Monday, you received the Act I post-reading questions and spent the period working on those.

Tuesday, you turned in those answers. We then started our look at the rest of act II, which took us through Wednesday and part of Thursday. The summary of the act is located on my Files page here, but the big news is that Macbeth kills King Duncan, and his sons get the blame since they run out of fear for their own safety. There were a bunch of dichotomies that we discussed in conjunction with these events. Your goal in completing the paragraph that is due (as of this writing) tomorrow is to make sure that the analysis for whatever evidence you find explains why it fits for the dichotomy you choose. 

We dealt with my busted DVD/VCR situation by watching Orson Welles' version of Macbeth as opposed to the Royal Shakespeare Company's version, since the latter is stuck in the broken combo. Orson Welles made some weird choices, and, after reading up on the history of the production, his was only the fourth adaptation of a Shakespeare play ever filmed with sound and the first ever adapation of Macbeth as a big screen movie. The fact that Welles changed so much of the play was scandalous at the time to many critics, but it's since become common practice. There's a third version that the library has, so perhaps we'll watch that one for act III. 

You also took a quiz on act II on Thursday. 

Speaking of quizzes, everyone took the retest on the Macbeth terms on Friday, and we got a few lines into act III.

Book 6 of 2011

I finished this during SSR at work while most of the students were off taking a group picture.

6) Countdown to Lockdown: A Hardcore Journal by Mick Foley
Countdown to Lockdown is former WWE (and TNA) champion Mick Foley's fourth memoir that attempts to chronicle the six week journey to his match with Sting at the TNA pay per view, Lockdown. Attempts is the key word here because Foley takes the approach of alternating every third or so chapter as a "Countdown" to the match, while the rest of the chapters focus on various and sundry topics, from his short stint as a WWE announcer to his charity work all with lots and lots of Tori Amos. Seriously, this guy loves him some Tori.

Book 5 of 2011

I finished this at the gym while lamenting that I was riding the stationary bike instead of running.

5) Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: A Book by Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt's first book differs from most comedian books. For the most part, I've stopped buying comedian books because they are inevitably disappointing. If I like a comedian enough to follow their work to the point that I want to purchase their book, I am usually pretty familiar with their material. Unfortunately, my experience has shown that comedian books, especially initial comedian books, consist entirely of their stand-up material written down along with some book exclusive funny lists. But Oswalt is clearly a writer first and comedian second, and that makes all the difference. 

"I love technology but not as much as you, you see."

While I was not here on Thursday, I was present on campus. I spent the day in a training for a new program the district plans to implement this year called School Loop. The program looks promising and some of the little things it has to offer make the effort needed to change completely worth it. Also, the larger aspects of the program, like parents and students having accounts that they can use to communicate with teachers and track their progress, will be very beneficial to everyone at the school. Once everyone has the okay of the administration, I plan to take each of my classes to the tutoring center so the students can set up their account. The latest I anticipate this happening is March, so this is something I can see aiding all of the students at the school, even the seniors whose first thought about anything announced as "new" is, "It won't benefit us." Trust me, it can and will.

Frosh
Last Thursday, January 13, we checked for ORU books and then went over the act I prologue of Romeo & Juliet. It essentially serves as a preview for the audience so they know what they're getting into with the play. The groundlings can't say Shakespeare didn't warn them, and, yet, they would still get affected by the ending despite knowing what was coming. In fact, it's knowing what is about to happen that makes Romeo and Juliet's story all the more tragic. There's nothing the audience can do but watch as these two young kids experience dizzying highs followed by the lowest of lows.

On Friday, January 14, we moved forward.

Tuesday, you took the lit terms and concepts quiz. Afterwards, we picked up books from the library and then assigned act I roles. You'll occupy that character for the duration of our reading of act I.

When Wednesday rolled around, I decided to change my initial plans. Instead of what I originally planned, we instead practiced how to complete this semester's ORU, and I'm glad that we did because I feel like everyone is a bit more comfortable with the new format and the new skill set needed to complete it.

I was at the School Loop training on Thursday, but you and Mrs. Keepers completed the Romeo & Juliet Scavenger Hunt and discussed the results. The items on the list are things to which many of you can relate and will see in the play.

Friday, we yet again moved forward.

Seniors

Last Thursday, January 13, you turned in the aside questions. We focused the rest of the period on trying to get a grip on Lady Macbeth. Is she overly ambitious, not realizing what she's getting herself and her husband into? Or is she just an evil, vile woman who had the unfortunate temerity to be born a woman instead of a man? The answer is probably somewhere in between, but she's definitely one of the deepest female characters in any of Shakespeare's plays.

While we got our first look at Lady Macbeth in scene v, scene vii gives us a look at the Macbeths as a couple and how the two interact, which we read Friday. The scene also gives us a look at Macbeth's indecision, as he realizes that the only reason he has for wanting to be king is wanting to be king. It's like me and wanting a newer, bigger television. I have a nice TV already, but you know what? I could always use a newer one. The difference is that Macbeth's base desires involve murdering someone, a king no less. That's a big reason why he decides to give up the notion and tells his wife as much, but Lady Macbeth has already made up her mind. What can we gather from how they interact? We've already made mention in our discussion how Macbeth refers to Lady Macbeth as his partner in his letter in scene v. How does this scene strengthen that analysis? Has Lady Macbeth become unsexed like she asked? Does being a woman actually help her in her effort to convince Macbeth to side with her plans?

Tuesday, we finished up act I. We then began to view the different interpretations of Shakespeare's words by viewing the Royal Shakespeare Company's version of Macbeth that aired on HBO long before you were born. Heck, I don't think I was born when this originally aired. Besides noting some of the famous actors in the play, note how different directors could take the same dialogue we've read together and see something else entirely in their reading. My goal is for us to view at least two other versions, if not more, later on to really explore how differing interpretations are key to understanding the Bard.

You took a quiz on act I Wednesday, which determined how well you were paying attention to our reading in class.

There was another quiz on Thursday, this time on the Macbeth terms found in your Shakespacket. You also turned in your first ORU of the semester.

Friday, you turned in your first Act Paragraph, exploring a thematic dichotomy of your choosing in act I of the play. We then discussed Macbeth's dagger soliloquy, which forces us to ask if Macbeth is really being driven by fate or if he's just crazypants. Both, by the way, are valid interpretations.

Book 4 of 2011

This was a gift for my birthday, and I read it on our three day weekend.

4) Blackest Night by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis
I almost hesitated to count this but then McBride told me to, so here we are. Once a collection reaches a certain page length (and considering I hadn't read any of the individual issues previously), I guess it counts. Blackest Night is the supposed culmination of a years long story where the Green Lanterns started to produce more lanterns of various colors. Each color of lantern (It feels wrong to say "colored lanterns" because it's already bad enough that the ultimate bad guys are the Black Lanterns and the ultimate good guys are that defeat the evil Black Lanterns are the, you guessed it, White Lanterns, but I'm getting ahead of myself.) represents a different part of the emotional spectrum. While green still stands for will, red covers rage and blue is all about hope. Each one, with the exception of the Sinestro Corps' yellow power source, is less interesting and less powerful than the Green Lanterns until the Black Lanterns roll up because they are dead zombie jerks.

Book 3 of 2011

This was on sale for $5 dollars in the Amazon Kindle store, and I finished it in a single weekend, the last half or so in about a day. For some, that's nothing, but it's a bit of a big deal to me.

2) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
There's something to be said about coming into any kind of story with absolutely no preconceptions. While I knew the title and had heard that the director of Pleasantville was picked to helm the movie version, that about sums up all I knew going into this book. In fact, I had to look up the main character after the first chapter to double check that she was a girl since the name wasn't the best indicator. If at all possible, it's a joy to experience any kind of media this way, which is increasingly tougher the more information savvy society becomes. With so many films getting the adaptation treatment and spoilers for things I enjoy sometimes being difficult to ignore, I really appreciate that I experienced this first book cold and encourage everyone to do so if they can help it...which means that your own reading should probably stop here. I don't really spoil anything below this cut, but keep in mind that I didn't even know the PREMISE of the book prior to reading it.

Also, it's a bad idea to eat chocolate before a cardio-kickboxing class.

I cannot kick this high.

In an effort to fight off Father Time, prove something to myself, and continue my quest to one day become the oldest man in the world, I've decided to go to my cardio-kickboxing class four days in a row this week, with a possibility of a fifth time on Saturday. Today was day three. There were so many kicks, and kicks are the thing I hate the most in the class because I'm not good at them and my hips are boney and inflexible. Plus, my shins still have nerve endings in them so they have not yet become accustomed to striking the heavy bag one hundred times in succession. That is to say, it hurts. But it's on my to do list, so it must be done...just like this blog post!


Frosh
We've been dedicating time to sonnets of the Shakespearian variety.

Tuesday, we went over the components of a sonnet in detail and took a close look at Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, where the speaker compares his friend to a summer's day. As long as people survive to read the poem, his buddy's beauty will always live on through the words the Bard uses. That makes it pretty neat that we're here reading it 400 years later, huh? You also received time to work on memorizing your lit terms.

Our focus today was Sonnet 73, where things took a more somber turn as the speaker in Shakespeare's poem remarks on aging and the inevitable onset of death. Notice that in the three quatrains, the speaker makes sure to note that the person he's talking to sees in him the youth that used to exist. Again, it ends with a nice note of friendship as the buddy still wants to know and appreciate him despite the fact that the youth that used to be there is all gone.

This is also the perfect opportunity to detail the Frosh bonus assignment: For 15 points, write a Shakespearian sonnet that contains all of the components of a sonnet that we've discussed (3 quatrains, 1 ending couplet, and it follows the correct rhyme scheme). If you want to go the extra mile (and really impress the everything out of me), write it in iambic pentameter for an additional 5 points. Heck, if you manage to successfully write a full sonnet in iambic pentameter (successfully being the key word here), then you'll have earned an additional 10 points. The breakdown is as follows:

• Shakespearian sonnet: 15 points
• Shakespearian sonnet attempted in iambic pentameter: 20 points
• Shakespearian sonnet successfully utilizing iambic pentameter: 25 points

Good look. All poems are due by Tuesday. I'll accept blog comments until Monday at 11:59pm.

Seniors
We've been spending our time discussing Macbeth.

On Tuesday, we started off the play proper. The first scene sets the spooky atmosphere and provides spectacle to calm the masses who would have otherwise been a rowdy audience. The second scene provides exposition so we know just how awesome Macbeth is. Our third scene introduces Macbeth and Banquo as well as the prophecies. Remember to keep track of the various dichotomies for your act paragraphs because they are everywhere throughout the play.

Today, we finished off the third scene and then you spent time working on the questions about the aside passage where Macbeth reveals that he's had some rather impure thoughts about how he might become king. It kind of makes you wonder if he's thought about this sort of thing prior to our introduction of him since his mind immediately goes to thoughts of regicide. Those questions, by the way, are due tomorrow.

Book 2 of 2011

I intended to finish this on my iPad using the iBooks app late Tuesday night right before going to bed, but I kept falling asleep; instead I completed it the moment I woke up at 5:45am the next morning.

2) Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
Josh Bazell's first book has an awesome premise: a Manhattan doctor in the Witness Protection Program has to deal with his past life as a mob hitman. It also really delivers.

It's never nice to steal...

...but this compilation of people stealing hats from UFC fighters while they make their entrance is pretty hilarious. I'm thinking that I'd like to add "steal a hat from an entering UFC fighter" to my bucket list. It doesn't hurt that the song accompanying the video is awesome all on its own.




Everyone, I appreciate your continued patience as my room continues to be a sweltering mess. Please understand that I'm much more miserable in this particular situation because I'm in there all day. If I had any control over the AC and how busted it must be, it would already be fixed. My fingers are crossed that it will be fixed soon.

Beyond that, we have some mustarding to do. Wait, that's not right...

Frosh
You turned in the Idiot's Guide Outline last Thursday. We then went over a brief overview of the world according to Ptolemy, emphasizing the idea that his view of the world was skewed and that the alignment of planets, moons and stars affected the behavior of what would otherwise be rational thinking individuals. You also received the new and improved outside reading update. We'll attempt one together prior to the first one's due date.

Friday, we moved forward

Today, we started looking at a few literary terms on which you will be quizzed come next Tuesday. You'll get some time to do some studying of said terms tomorrow; creating flash cards is not necessarily required but strongly encouraged.

Seniors
On Thursday and Friday, you received the Shakespacket and had time to read and evaluate the information. I urge you not to take this lightly because, unlike first semester, I'm not padding the grade book with initial points. From the (lack of) class discussion today, I get the impression that too many people have forsaken the "reading" part of the Shakespacket essay assignment in favor of "not reading." This approach has bad idea written all over it. There will be many references to the information without my explanation during the course of our analysis of Macbeth. Please keep this in mind. You also received the requirements for the semester's outside reading.

Today, we picked up copies of Macbeth from the library and chose roles in anticipation of our reading the play. Everyone is locked into the roles for act I, and when act II rolls around, we'll switch it up. Additionally, we discussed the many different thematic dichotomies present in the play as well as the paragraphs you will have to complete for each act. Links to both of those sheets either are already available on the files section of the blog (in the case of the paragraph) or will be shortly (in the case of the dichotomy sheet).

Book 1 of 2011

I finished this Sunday evening, relaxing at home.

1) How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form by Thomas C. Foster

Having bought this book last year, started it in October on a day I was home sick and finally finishing it after a long grading session concluded in December, I find that Thomas Foster's basic literary criticism is helpful to anyone looking to understand the why of what they have read.

Foster's previous book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, covered some of the same ideas, but here he gets into some helpful specifics and informative history specifically about novels. His tone is conversational. What I liked most about Literature was how each chapter could roughly translate to one period-long lecture. The same applies here. The big improvement to this book from the last one are the various "Law of [Cleverly Punned Title]" that details a general rule to follow when reading a novel. These are the kinds of common sense approaches to reading and interacting with a text that I feel would be a great benefit to my students, so I annotated each of them and plan to make a list prior to their big lit project next year.

My sole complaint has to do with the choices Foster makes in the examples he uses. He really focuses on Joyce, Faulkner, Dickens and the Victorian-era novelists, the latter to really illustrate the point of how much has changed in the modern and postmodern period. This goes to my own personal preferences, but I found myself trying to make associations between what he has read, a lot of which with I am unfamiliar, to the kind of authors I enjoy. Mostly, I would have liked to see more books that I've read mentioned as opposed to the ones he discusses. I guess part of the point is for the reader to apply their reading knowledge and history to the lessons he's teaching through the text. But he and I like different things and that makes him wrong and me right. 

Fresh Start and a Clean Slate

I've set a goal for myself. I only read 16 books last year. My reading consistency always falls off a cliff in the months between September and December because I get caught up in grading a whole ton of papers for the lit project. Still, I could be spending the time I am not grading on reading as opposed to watching TV or playing video games. So my goal this year is to read 25 books in 2011. Like I did in 2010, I'll crosspost my Goodreads reviews here to keep track and as a way to keep me honest.


Frosh
We started the semester off with a discussion about grades and how second semester works. The first semester of high school is tough; you have to make many adjustments in your expectations as well as figuring out what others expect of you. Because of the time it takes some folks to get themselves situated, grades and work ethic have a tendency to fall by the wayside. Second semester gives those people a chance to get back on track. Every single student starts second semester with a clean slate; grades start over from scratch. Look at second semester as an opportunity to right the wrongs of the first semester or to continue on a path that has already been working for you.

The class also discussed their Shakespeare knowledge, most of which consisted of people sharing that the Bard is a poet. At least I know the page everybody is on going into this unit.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, you started reading the first chapter of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shakespeare, a title I hope no one takes at face value. The beauty of the Complete Idiot's Guide series is the way it is able to take complex and sometimes daunting subjects and simplify them into easily digestible books. You began to fill out the outline for the biographical chapter. To understand the creator is to better understand the work, so we study Shakespeare prior to reading Romeo & Juliet. Makes perfect sense, right?

Today is much of the same. I also will give you the newest ORU incarnation for second semester.

Seniors
It's a new semester! On Monday, we reviewed the slightly updated class syllabus for everyone's benefit, especially those new to the class due to a change in class schedules for second semester.

Here's the thing: I like second semester better than the first. We're in a rhythm as a class, and there's a bit more focus due to the fact that everyone reads the same text. The lit project is great, but for my own sanity, I prefer everyone reading the same work. There's also, at least in the fourth quarter, a renewed sense of urgency in the class because everyone wants to graduate.

Tuesday, we discussed our bucket lists, but the underlying premise was to discuss what each individual would be willing to do in order to achieve the things on said lists, as well as how far each person would go for the people in their lives and their respective lists. It's an interesting moral dilemma that we will constantly revisit in our Macbeth discussions.

Oh yeah, did I mention we started our Macbeth unit? 'Cause we did. Today will see us get some terms under our belts, some new and some old. Some of the terms will be your responsibility when I give you the fabled Shakespacket tomorrow, but if you ever have questions about the terms, let me know. The test on these terms won't be taking place until January 20, so there's some time.

Also, if anyone wants to purchase Macbeth or Romeo & Juliet, I've provided a link below to their respective Amazon pages.