[03:18.06]I will not give a student a grade he, or she, doesn’t deserve.
[03:21.35]Well, Michael needs a b.
[03:24.81]What is he have to do to "deserve" that?
[03:29.14]Right now is Michael doing c minus, d plus work.
[03:32.64]His best chance at improving is with the written essay
[03:35.02]At the end of the year.
[03:36.52]It counts a third of his grade.
[03:40.02]Well that’s it. We’re sunk.
[03:43.79]Why don’t you write about "Great Expectations"?
[03:47.07]You’re a lot like Pip.
[03:49.13]I mean he was poor, he was an orphan
[03:51.96]and someone kind of found him.
[03:54.57]You should be able to relate to that.
[04:00.78]Fine, let’s go through the reading list.
[04:03.80]But you’re gonna have to pick one, Michael.
[04:07.12]"Pygmalion"...
[04:11.61]"A tale of two cities"..... "The charge of the light brigade"...
[04:15.50]"half a league, half a league, half a league onward"
[04:19.20]I love that one.
[04:21.20]He loves it.
[04:25.15]Why don’t you do this and I’ll watch basketball?
[04:32.35]Okay.
[04:37.35]"all in the valley of death rode the six hundred."
[04:41.81]They named LSU’s stadium death valley because of this story.
[04:46.79]Alfred, lord tennyson has writing about
[04:49.29]LSU in Ole Miss.
[04:50.46]-You’re kidding? -No. It’s a great story.
[04:53.13]It’s a poem.
[04:55.52]"forward the light brigade!"
[04:57.74]It’s like the offense.
[04:59.41]"charge for the guns he said."