The Second Day of the Substitute

Today, our class was once again left Cookless. Mrs. Jones substituted again. All in all, today and yesterday were remarkably similar. The course of my actions was as follows: First, Georgina and I went to the library and logged onto computers. Next, we pulled up information about naturalism and related material, and read that for the rest of the class. In particular, we read about the Gilded Age. The Gilded Age was a period of rapid economic and technological growth in the United States after the Civil War. It was named for the process of gilding objects with a superficial layer of gold, which was meant to make fun of the era's ostentatious self-admiration.

--Wald der Ruhig