Knoxville's Best Sweet Tea

I so enjoyed today's tea tasting! Those of you who brought tea, thank you. Please thank your parents as well.  I am still trying to recover from all of that sugar!  In case you didn't get it all written down today, here are the stats.  

1st Period: 

• ***** McDonalds with 94 votes
• **** Chick-fil-A with 91 votes
• *** Bojangles with 60 votes
• ** Chintzy Rose with 50 votes
• * McAlisters with 34 votes

3rd Period:

• ***** Bojangles with 97 votes
• **** Chick-fil-A with 91 votes
• *** McDonalds with 77 votes
• ** Chintzy Rose with 58 votes
• * McAlisters with 53 votes

I can't wait to see the first place reviews from each class.  Remember to find your voice and to keep a consistent tone.  Words like delicious, amazing, and wonderful should NOT appear in your reviews.  Choose specific, meaningful words.  Happy writing!  I will leave you with some pictures from today!

Proustian Memory

Marcel Proust, a French novelist, wrote about how the smell of a madeleine cake dipped into a lime-blossom tea, unleashed a rush of brilliantly-clear memory: "and as soon as I had recognised the taste of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime-blossom which my aunt used to give me ... immediately the old grey house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like a stage set ... and with the house the town, from morning to night and in all weathers, the Square where I used to be sent before lunch, the streets along which I used to run errands, the country roads we took when it was fine."

For me, a pot of green beans simmering on the stove immediately transports me to my Mamaw Shirley's house. Her fresh green beans, flavored with bacon and onion salt, are cooked for hours. I have never tasted better. Just the sight of green beans reminds me of the many family gatherings held in her home. Though there are many rooms to choose from, living room, dining room, sitting room, somehow everyone always ends up standing around the kitchen hovering over her as she works. The green beans act as magnets pulling us all together.

What smell or taste brings back a memory for you?

Accidental or Intentional?

Did Gene intentionally jounce the tree limb or was it simply an accident? Use specific evidence from the text to support your answer and make sure to cite the page number. You must say something new. Do not merely repeat what someone else has already said.