Wednesday, March 16 Ethan Frome finishing chapter 4

19th century steamer trunk, such as Mattie might have owned

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: What type of person might be venerable to someone who uses passive aggressive behavior to control his or her environment?
Coming up:  vocabulary power point review on Thursday
                     vocabulary quiz on Friday

In class: finishing up chapter 4 graphic organizer. Please take your time and make sure you have followed the instructions for each question, weaving in text as needed.

This was handed out yesterday. Here is another copy. 

Name	Chatper IV Ethan Frome   responses
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….
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)