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: Why might it be preferable to create an imaginary life, as opposed to a real one?
Essential question: Why might it be preferable to create an imaginary life, as opposed to a real one?
Reminder: vocabulary review on Thursday
vocabulary quiz Friday/
Still missing material?....clean up those zeros. See me outside of class, if you have questions. Before school, periods 1, 2 (library), 4 and 7 (176) and after school. You may make up work any period but in class.
In class: turn in the chronological sheet for chapters 2 and 3. If you were absent yesterday, collect one. It will be collected at the start of class tomorrow / Wednesday.
In class today: chapter 4. Please take out your text. We will be reading and completing the accompanying questions as a class. If you are absent, you will need to complete the work independently.
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Chatper IV Ethan Frome responses
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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….
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2. Weave in textual evidence to explain the circumstances as to how Ethan came to marry Zeena.
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3. Why didn’t Ethan and Zeena leave Starkfield? (text)
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4. Why couldn’t Andrew Hale give Ethan the money for the lumber? (text)
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5. Why does it please Ethan to have “caught” Ned Hale and Ruth Varnum kissing? (text)
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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.
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7. How has Maddie set the table for supper? (complete sentence, weaving in text)
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8. Who broke the pickle dish and why is this such a crisis? (weave in the text)
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9. How does Ethan handle the situation and how does this make him feel? (weave in the text)
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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)
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See below for the correct responses to last Friday's assessment
Name________________________________ March 11, 2016
Active - Passive Voice
final assessment
Directions: Change each passive voice sentence into
the active voice.
1. The television was
purchased by a young man as a Father's Day gift.
A young man purchased the television as a Father's Day gift.
2. A colorful blanket for the new baby was knitted by a family friend.
A young man purchased the television as a Father's Day gift.
2. A colorful blanket for the new baby was knitted by a family friend.
A family friend knitted a colorful blanket for the new baby.
3. Three finalists will be given prizes by the film festival judges tonight.
The film festival judges will give the three finalists prizes.
4. Peter Rabbit has been told by his mother not to play in Mr. McGregor's garden.
4. Peter Rabbit has been told by his mother not to play in Mr. McGregor's garden.
Peter Rabbit's mother told him not to play in Mr. McGregor's garden.
5. The mittens were lost by the three little kittens.
5. The mittens were lost by the three little kittens.
The three little kittens they lost their mittens.
6. Sally and I were treated to an old blues tune by the pianist while we ate.
The pianist treated Sally and me to an old blues tune while we ate.
7. The man was rescued by a mysterious woman in a cape.
A mysterious woman in a cape rescued the man.
8. Ella complains that she is always given a million excuses by her daughter.
Ella's daughter gives her a million excuses.
9. In this picture, my brother is being given a violin lesson by our cousin, Jessica.
In this picture, our cousin Jessica is giving my brother a violin lesson.
10. When the bread arrived, it was gobbled down by the hungry guests.
6. Sally and I were treated to an old blues tune by the pianist while we ate.
The pianist treated Sally and me to an old blues tune while we ate.
7. The man was rescued by a mysterious woman in a cape.
A mysterious woman in a cape rescued the man.
8. Ella complains that she is always given a million excuses by her daughter.
Ella's daughter gives her a million excuses.
9. In this picture, my brother is being given a violin lesson by our cousin, Jessica.
In this picture, our cousin Jessica is giving my brother a violin lesson.
10. When the bread arrived, it was gobbled down by the hungry guests.
The hungry guests gobbled down the bread when it arrived.
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