Monday, March 14 chapters review chapters 2 and 3...chapter 4

RED PICKLE DISH

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I am missing a substantial number of assignments.

Have you turned in the dialectical responses to the prologue? chapter 1?

Taken last Friday's passive to active voice assessment?

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Learning Targets 

I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

I can determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account.

I can analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story

Essential Question: How have the personalities of Ethan, Zenobia and Maddie been impacted by their environment?

In class: review of this week's vocabulary.  Handout last Friday / copy on blog

              Review of chapters 2 and 3...class handout / copy below.  We will review these as a class.

Chapter 4

Questions. We will read this chapter as a class. The accompanying questions will primarily be completed as we read along.  (class handout / copy below).

Ethan Frome vocabulary 2                                    quiz on Friday, March 18

1.    obscure-  (adjective)-  uncertain, concealed

2.    incredulous- (adjective)- disbelieving, mistrustful, suspicious

3.    opulence- (adjective)- great wealth or luxuriousness

4.    latent- (adjective)-not yet developed, in a budding state

5.    disconsolate- (adjective)-downcast, downhearted, unhappy

6.    to obliterate -(verb)-to completely destroy, wipe out

7.    squalid – (adjective)-extremely dirty or unpleasant, especially because of neglect

8.    pauper- (noun)-a very poor person

9.    exultation- (noun)- a feeling of supreme happiness

10.     to cower (verb)-to crouch down in fear

Name __________________________   Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton   chapters 2 and 3 assessment.. you may use your text.

You will find below a list of the significant plot items for chapter 2 below. Please put each of them in chronological order, numbering 1-8

Chapter II

__________ “In the black shade of the Varnum spruces he caught up with her and she turned with a quick “Oh!”

___________ “As the dancers poured out the hall Frome, drawing back behind the projecting storm-door, watched the segregation of the grotesquely muffled groups, in which a  moving lantern ray now and then lit up a face flushed with food and dancing.”

__________ He slipped an arm through hers, as Eady had done, and fancied it was faintly pressed against her side; but neither of them moved.

__________   “It’s (key) is not there! He said, straightening himself with a start.

__________  She lingered, pressing closer this side. “Ned Hale and Ruth Varnum came just as near running in the big elm at the bottom. We were all sure they were killed.”

__________” I know I ain’t anything like as smart as I ought to be,” she went on…”There’s lot of things a hired girl could do that come awkward to me still- I haven’t much strength in my arms.”

__________” I guess we’ll never let you go, Matt, he whispered, as though even the dead, lovers once, must conspire with him to keep her.” …He was never so happy with her as when he abandoned himself to these dreams.

__________ “That’s so. It is powerful cold down her,” Ethan assented; and with lowered head he went up in his wife’s

                     wake, and followed her across the threshold of their room.

You will find below a list of the significant plot items for chapter 3  below. Please put each of them in chronological order, numbering 1-5

Chapter III

________  Zenobia’s finding fault was of the silent kind. …Since the previous night a vague dread had hung on his  (Ethan’s)  skyline.

_______ “I’ve got shooting pains so bad that I’m going over to Bettsbridge to spend the night with Aunt Martha Pierce and see that new doctor.”

________ He felt all the more sorry for the girl because misfortune had, in a sense, indentured her to them. Mattie Silver

                   was the daughter of a cousin of Zenobia Frome’s….Unhappily, Orin Silver …had died..and Maddie, at twenty, was left alone to make her way on the fifty dollars obtained from the sale of her piano.

______ “ …but there was only one thought in his mind: …for the first time since Mattie had come to live with them, Zenna was to be away for a night.

_______ “I’d take you over, only I’ve got to collect the cash for the lumber.”

Name	Chatper IV Ethan Frome
1.       Identify the tone of the following paragraph and, using textual evidence, explain this has been established by the Wharton.     It was warm and bright in the kitchen.  The sun slanted though the south window on the girl’s moving figure, on the cat dozing in a chair, and on the geraniums brought in from the door-way, where Ethan had planted them in the summer to "make a garden" for Mattie.  He would have liked to linger on, watching her tidy up and then settle down to her sewing….	Responses
2.       Weave in textual evidence to explain the circumstances as to how Ethan came to marry Zeena.
3.       Why didn’t Ethan and Zeena leave Starkfield? (text)
4.       Why couldn’t Andrew Hale give Ethan the money for the lumber? (text)
5.       Why does it please Ethan to have “caught” Ned Hale and Ruth Varnum kissing? (text)
6.       One of the headstones in the Frome family plot reads:      SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ETHAN FROME AND ENDURANCE HIS WIFE     WHO DWELLED TOGETER IN PEACE                FOR FIFTY YEARS Write two sentences: one that expresses a  poignant sentiment towards the epitaph, the other a counter claim that expresses less warmth.
7.       How has Maddie set the table for supper? (complete sentence, weaving in text)
8.       Who broke the pickle dish and why is this such a crisis? (weave in the text)
9.       How does Ethan handle the situation and how does this make him feel? (weave in the text)
10.   Clearly the red pickle dish as a symbolic connotation. Based upon the context of the dish’s acquisition, its color and the circumstances of its demise, write two to three sentences, explaining the dish’s symbolic meaning. (No need for text)