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Session 57

2026-09-29 · 2026-W40 ✓ reviewed

What happened

Starter ran, then she stopped ('i need to cut this short') the moment the My Last Duchess read was set — nothing of the poem was read. 11:00 Lit block, 15 min. Starter, no notes, 6 items: London first line 'i wonder thro' each cherter'd street' (thro'/street right; wonder for wander again, cherter'd, lower-case i); hearse — 'i don't know' x2, then 'hoonser' after the first letter was given; 'Ozimandias'; 'Marks of weakness, marks of woe' exact; structure fact — 'i don't know' on stanza count and rhyme, then '4 chunks' after a picture-the-page scaffold, effect on the open form 'uniform' → 'the stanzas are all the same, so London feels uniform like rows of prison cells' after a finish-the-sentence nudge (test #62: fact first, effect followed); 'different' correct. 2/6 exact unaided; 6 set, 6 attempted, 0 final blanks (2 initial 'i don't know' on hearse, 1 on structure). Retype of wander / charter'd / Ozymandias / hearse 4/4. My Last Duchess read set (8-min timer) and not started; timed exit paragraph not run; London context not taught.

Planned next

FIRST: My Last Duchess from the CGP guide, same task — read twice (8 min), one sentence on who is talking and to whom, one quotation on its own line, her three plan lines alone, then the 8-minute timed what-how-why paragraph book closed. Starter, no notes: spell hearse (blank today), London first line (wander and charter'd both slipped again), spell Ozymandias (Ozimandias today), London rhyme pattern as a FACT (ABAB, not given by her), then its effect on the open form. London context (Blake 1790s, church and crown) still owed as a five-minute teach. Do not redraft the Ozymandias/London comparison. Macbeth, ACC, AIC still blocked until copies arrive.

Unfinished unfinished · closed

My Last Duchess read (CGP guide, read twice, one-sentence who/to whom) set and not started; timed 8-minute unaided paragraph on one quotation not run; London context teach not done.

Unfinished: My Last Duchess read (CGP guide, read twice, one-sentence who/to whom) set and not started; timed 8-minute unaided paragraph on one quotation not run; London context teach not done. (K1, K3.2, P1.02) — closed 2026-10-06 by session 76: completed in session 76

What this session changed

TopicNameChangeEvidence recorded
P1.02Developing → DevelopingStarter cold: first line 'i wonder thro' each cherter'd street' (wonder for wander, cherter'd; thro' and street right); 'Marks of weakness, marks of woe' exact; stanza count blank then '4' after a picture-the-page scaffold, rhyme pattern not known; effect after the fact on the open form: 'so London feels uniform like rows of prison cells'. Recall of the marks line holds; the first line still slips on wander.
K3.2Developing → DevelopingTest #62 run: asked for a structure FACT first (stanzas/rhyme) - 'i don't know', then '4 chunks' after a picture-the-page scaffold; effect then came on the open form: 'uniform' -> 'the stanzas are all the same, so London feels uniform like rows of prison cells' with one finish-the-sentence nudge. Best structural effect yet, but the fact itself needed a scaffold. Seventh supported instance.
K6.1Gap → GapCold: 'street' and 'different' correct (test #27: 0 of 2, vs 2 slips last time); 'wonder', 'cherter'd', 'Ozimandias' wrong; 'hearse' blank then 'hoonser' after the first letter. Retype wander / charter'd / Ozymandias / hearse 4/4. Today's slips were in cold retrieval, not production.
P1.01Developing → Developing'Ozimandias' cold in the starter (was correct 22 Sep, 'Ozymanidas' 24 Sep); correct on retype. No quotation from the poem tested today.
K4.2Developing → DevelopingLoose-end check: 'wonder' for 'wander' recurred in the London first line; the marks line exact. 1 of 2 London quotations exact cold.