December 10, 2014

1.  What is Walter Cunningham like? What does his behavior during lunch suggest about his home life?

 

2.  Who is Calpurnia? What is her place in the Finch household?

 

 

3.  What do you think of the way Atticus treats Walter?

 

December 9,2014

1. Atticus says that you never really understand a person “until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”. What does this mean?

 

2.    What superstitions do the children have in connection with the Radley house?

 

December 8, 2014

Analysis the following quote and explain

What does the mockingbird symbolized?

Who are the mockingbird in this novel?

Chapter 10

Quotation

"Atticus said to Jem one day, 'I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'

That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it.

'Your father's right,' she said. 'Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'"

December 5, 2014

Analysis the following quote and explain what happened between Uncle Jack and Scout.

What kind of personality does Scout have?

Chapter 9

Quotation

"Atticus said, 'You've a lot to learn, Jack.'

'I know. Your daughter gave me my first lessons this afternoon. She said I didn't understand children much and told me why. She was quite right. Atticus, she told me how I should have treated her-oh dear, I'm so sorry I romped on her.'"

December 4, 2014

Analysis the following quote and explain what just happened to Scout, and what you think Scout's view on Boo Radley now?

Chapter 8

Quotation

"'Thank who?' I asked.

'Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you didn't know it when he put the blanket around you.'

My stomach turned to water and I nearly threw up when Jem held out the blanket and crept toward me. 'He sneaked out of the house-turn 'round-sneaked up, an' went like this!'" 

December 3, 2014

Read the following

Describe what it is about. How do you feel about it. Does it makes sense? if so , why? if not, why?

 

Elvis Presley’s “Walk a Day In My Shoes”

 

If I could be you, if you could be me
For just one hour, if we could find a way
To get inside each others mind
If you could see you through my eyes
Instead your own ego I believe you'd be
I believe you'd be surprised to see
That you've been blind

Walk a mile in my shoes
Just walk a mile in my shoes
Before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Then walk a mile in my shoes

Now if we spend the day
Throwin stones at one another
cause I dont think, cause I dont think
Or wear my hair the same way you do
Well, I may be common people
But Im your brother
And when you strike out
Youre tryin to hurt me
Its hurtin you, lord how mercy

Now there are people on reservations
And out in the ghetto
And brother there, but, for the grace of god
Go you and i,
If I only had wings of a little angel
Dont you know, Id fly
To the top of a mountain
And then Id cry, cry, cry

December 2, 2014

Group One and two

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.

Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided.

1.  "At first we saw nothing but a kudzu-covered front porch..."

2.  "...the ensuing contest to determine relative distances and respective prowess only made me feel left out again...."

3.  " 'Don't get in a row of collards whatever you do, they'll wake the dead.' "

4.  "...a ramshackle porch ran the width of the house..."

5.  "An old Franklin stove sat in a corner of the porch; above it a hat-rack mirror caught the moon and shone eerily."

Group Three

Define each word and write in a complete sentences


1. Kudzu

2.  Ensuing  

3.  Prowess 

4.  Collards 

5.  Ramshackle 

6.   Franklin stove 


7.  Eerily."

December 1, 2014

Analysis and explain the following

Quotation

"'First of all,' he said, 'If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-'

'Sir?'

'-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.'" Page 39

November 26, 2014

Chapters 8-10

 

Please answer the following questions

1. What did Okonkwo do whenever he thought of his father’s weakness and failure?

2. What did Okonkwo tell himself about his part in Ikemefuna’s death?

3. What did Obierika tell Okonkwo about his part in Ikemefuna’s death?

4. Describe the meeting to determine Obierika’s daughter’s bride price.

5. The men began discussing rumors about white men. Who did the men think the white men were?

6. Describe the relationship between Ekwefi and Ezinma.

November 25, 2014

Group One and two

Define each vocabulary words

1.  feign

2.  rebuked

3.  stunted

4.  harbingers

5.  copiously

Group Three

Using Prior Knowledge and Context Clues

 

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.

Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided

1.  Nwoye would feign annoyance and grumble aloud about women and their troubles.

2.  And when he did this he saw that his father was pleased, and no longer rebuked him.

3.  They went back to their caves in a distant land, where they were guarded by a race of stunted men.

4.  They were the harbingers sent to survey the land.

5.  Okonkwo sat in his obi crunching happily with Ikemefuna and Nwoye, and drinking palm-wine
copiously....

November 24, 2014

Chapters 5-7

Group One and two

 

Define each vocabulary words.

 

fibrous

 

calabashes

frenzy

intoxicating

 

bouts

 

 

Group three

 

Using Prior Knowledge and Context Clues

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.

Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided.

1. The new year must begin with tasty, fresh yams and not the shriveled and fibrous crop of the previous year.

 

2. All cooking pots, calabashes, and wooden bowls were thoroughly washed, especially the wooden mortar in which yam was pounded.

 

3. The drums rose to a frenzy.

4. Old men nodded to the beat of the drums and remembered the days when they wrestled to its intoxicating rhythm.

 

5. Within a short time the two bouts were over.

November 21, 2014

Chapter 5 -7.  Please answer the following question


1. What influence did Ikemefuna have on Nwoye?

2. How did Okonkwo feel about Ikemefuna’s influence on Nwoye?

3. How did the villagers feel about the coming of the locusts, and what did they do about it?

4. What did the village decide to do with Ikemefuna?

5. Who struck the last blow to Ikemefuna, and why?

November 20,2014

Chapters 5-7  Please answer the following question


1. Describe the Feast of the New Yam.

2. Who was Okonkwo’s favorite child, and what did he often say about the child?

3. What unacceptable thing did Okonkso do just before the Feast of the New Yam?

4. Who was Chielo, and why was she important?

5. What sport did the villagers enjoy watching during their feasting?

November 19,2014

Using Prior knowledge and contextual Clues

Group One and Two

Using the following vocabulary words and write it in complete sentences. These words are the same words from yesterday's homework that you have to find the definition for.

1. perpertual


2.  Capricious


3.  incipient


4.  brusqueness


5.  kindred


6.  benevolent


Group Three

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided.


1.  His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little
children.

2. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear
of the forest, and of the forces of nature, red in tooth and claw.

3. Okonkwo’s first son, Nwoye, was then twelve years old but was already causing his father great
anxiety for his incipient laziness.

4. But he was struck, as most people were, by Okonkwo’s brusqueness in dealing with less
successful men.

5. Only a week ago a man had contradicted him at a kindred meeting which they held to discuss the
next ancestral feast.

6. But it was really not true that Okonkwo’s palm kernels had been cracked for him by a benevolent
spirit.

November 17,2014

Vocabulary:

Replace each word with an appropriate synonym from the Word Box below.

Word Box:

skill        dust       storm      evil         intent           meantime

threatening       whimsical      hawk       tenant      farming

beginning        knife          seashells (money)

1. “Okonkwo’s fame had grown like a bush-fire in the harmattan

(_______________).”

2. “When they had eaten they talked about . . . the impending

(_______________) war with the village of Mbaino.”

3. “In short, he was asking Unoka to return the two hundred cowries

(_______________) he had borrowed from him more than two years before.”

4. “To crown it all he had taken two titles and shown incredible prowess

(_______________) in two inter-tribal wars.”

5. “ . . . there was no hurry to decide his fate. Okonkwo was, therefore, asked on

behalf of the clan to look after him in the interim (_______________).”

6. “It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious

(_______________) gods and of magic . . . and of the forces of nature,

malevolent (_______________), red in tooth and claw.”

November 12, 2014

 

Agree/Disagree

 

Directions: Answer the following statement and explain why 

 

1.    It is ok for a person to have more than one spouse.

 

2.    Masculine men do not display their emotions.

3.    There is only one true religion.

 

4.    You must always be loyal to your family.

 

5.    Justice must be served in the court system.

 

6.    What other people think of me is important.

7.    Material things matter to me.

 

8.    Parents should have a say in their child’s lives.

 

9.    New and innovative ways are better than traditional methods.

 

10. What is best for the community is more important than

individual needs or wants.

November 10, 2014

What are some ways cultures can be perceived as strange?

Compare

I.The Ibo and America Cultures

 

list out:  what similar and different

 

November 7,2014

Answer the following questions

Who is Nwoye? How does Okonkwo feel about him?

 

How do other tribes feel about Umuofia?

why does Okwonko make his son unhappy?

 

 

 

 

 

November 6,2014

Answer the following questions

How is culture depicted in things fall apart?

 

 

 

How did Okonkwo become famous even beyond the nine villages of Umuofia?

 

 

What darkens the sky one day while everyone is working?

November 5, 2014

Things Fall Apart

 

 

Where does the story take place?

What are the important crops?

 

What features of Okonkwo's character persuades Nmwkibie to give him the yam seeds?

 

what made yam specifically a man's crop?

 

 

 

 

November 3, 2014

After you read chapter 1 and 2 of Things Fall Apart. Please answer the following questions:

1. According to the first paragraph of Chapter 1, for what is Okonkwo famous?

2. According to the last paragraph of Chapter 1, for what else is Okonkwo known?

3. For what is Okonkwo’s father, Unoka, known?

4. Why does Okonkwo’s father go to the Oracle? What does the Oracle tell him?

5. The story tells us that Okonkwo “ruled his household with a heavy hand.”   What does this mean?

 

October 24, 2014

·       (Page 77) Compare Crooks and Curly's wife (who are both secluded from the other characters).

·       (Page 83) Compare Crooks' attitude about George and Lennie's land on pages 76 and 83. How does his attitude change? Does it change?

October 23. 2014

Write sentence for each of the following vocabulary words:

Theme.
dislocate .
commonality
analyze .
examine

October 22,2014

For Homework: Compare and contrast reading from a script to reading a novel.
If possible, please use a Venn Diagram.

October 21,2014

    (Page 67) What are Crook's advantages/disadvantages as the only black man on the ranch?

    

    Page 71) Why does Crooks torture Lennie about potentially losing George?

    (Page 75) Why might Crooks have a different relationship with Slim than the other men on the ranch?

October 20, 2014

Define each vocabulary words

1. Derision – 

2. Reprehensible –

3. Solemn –

4. Aloof –

5. Sullen –

October 17, 2914

·       (Page 62) Carlson suggests Curly's wife has no place outside of the house. What does this say about his opinion on women? What does this say about the 1930's opinion on women?

o   Has this opinion changed since the 1930s? How so? How is is similar?

·      

     (Page 64) Who has the most power and influence on this ranch?

·    

     (Page 65) Respond to Lennie's reaction to the fight.

o    

     Would Lennie have fought back if George had not told him to?

October 16, 2014

·       (Page 59) We discussed the parallels between Candy and his dog and now Candy sees this parallel himself and wants to join George and Lennie on their potential land. Why does Candy want to join George and Lennie - who he just met - so badly?

o   

      How does George feel about letting Candy in on his dream?

o 

       Why does George decide to let him in on it?

·      

     (Page 61) We have seen George lie before. Why does he choose to keep the dream and Candy's involvement from the other ranch hands?

o   

        Why does he choose to keep it from Slim who we have seen him confide in before?

October 15, 2014

·       Why do minor characters, even Susy the prostitute, and the dog Lulu, have names, but not Curley’s wife?

·       

      (Page 56) George and Lennie's dream of owning their own land is becoming a reality. Lennie is obviously very excited - he has been waiting for his rabbits for a long time. How might George honestly feel about his dream actually being in reach?

·      

     (Page 58) When George and Lennie are talking about their dream, Lennie reacts violently to the hypothetical idea of the cat hurting the baby rabbits. What do we learn about Lennie through his reaction?

October 14, 2014

·       (Page 51) Why does Curly's wife spend so much time around the men? What is she looking for?

o      

      Do you think she will find whatever she is looking for from any of the men on the ranch?

o   

      Who is most likely to fall for Curly's wife?

·       

      (Page 52) Susy's whore house is a seemingly normal place for the men to visit. How might the same type of place be seen today? Is this acceptable? Why/why not?

October 10, 2014

o   What effect does the personification of silence have on this scene?

o   

    What does this say about how Whit thinks/feels about work?

o   

    What does this say about George and Lennie and how they feel about their work?

October 9, 2014

o   Do you believe George? Could Lennie have potentially raped the woman in Weed?

    What are Carlson's reasons for shooting the dog verses Candy's reasons for not wanting to shoot the dog?

o   

    How are Candy and his dog similar?

o   

     Who is being literally silenced? Who is being metaphorically silenced? How? By who? 

October 8, 2014

·    (Page 33) Slim is described as a talented, good looking, well respected man on the ranch. 

      Does this give him reason to flirt with Curly's wife? Why does he seem to get away with it?

     (Page 39) Why does George put himself down when talking to Slim?

·      

     (Page 40) What is the correlation between smarts and niceness?

·   

      (Page 41) Does George trust Slim? Why?

October 7, 2014

 

·      (Page 22) Why might the boss jump to the conclusion that George is taking advantage of Lennie?

o   

     Why doesn't George simply tell the boss the truth about Lennie instead of claiming to be his cousin?

·     

      (Page 25) Why is Curly hostile towards Lennie?

o   

      Is Curly's attitude justified? Why/why not?

·       

      (Page 31) Lennie thinks Curly's wife is "purty" - Should the sexual attraction of a handicapped person differ from that of a non-handicapped person? Why/why not?

October 6, 2014

§    1.  What does it say about the view of handicapped people during the 1930s?

§

       

    2.  How have views on the handicapped changed/stayed the same today?

·    

    3.  (Page 11) George complains about having to take care of Lennie. Why might George keep Lennie around?

    4.   (Page 20) What can we assume about the boss from Candy's description of him?

o   

    5.  Candy claims he is a nice man - What evidence do we have for/against this statement?

     6.     Is Candy a reliable source of information? Why/why not?

October 3, 2014

·       (Page 9) Steinbeck compares Lennie to a terrier - What does this comparison say about Lennie?

§      What does it say about the view of handicapped people during the 1930s?

§ 

     How have views on the handicapped changed/stayed the same today?

·       

     (Page 11) George complains about having to take care of Lennie. Why might George keep Lennie around?

October 2, 2014

·       (Page 1) Why does Steinbeck describe the setting with such detail?

o      

      What is the relationship between George and Lennie?

o 

         Describe how their "voices" differ.

·      

     (Page 5) What observations can you make about Lennie based on his attachment to the dead mouse?

·      

    (Page 7) What do you think could have happened in Weed to make George and Lennie leave?