Wednesday, February 1 chapter 4 content

Learning Targets:

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; provide an objective summary of the text.

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

In class: listening to chapter 4
              Chapter 4 content based questions

Disc 3, track 7

As we are listening to the chapter, you will probably not be able to thoroughly respond to the questions as we go along. I suggest you take a pencil and lightly mark the text, so that you may return  to it.

The following questions are due at the beginning of class tomorrow.

Chapter 4 – 1982         Name______________________
Pages 72-96

Please respond to the following content based questions from chapter 4, weaving in textual evidence and citing the page number. Write your responses on a separately lined sheet of paper.

1. How many people come to Gogol’s 14th birthday party?  Where do they come from?

      2. What is Gogol’s passion at this age? What has he posted on the bulletin board in his room?

 3. What book does his father give him for his birthday?  Why doesn’t Gogol have an interest in this book?  What has his father told him about his name?  Why hasn’t Ashoke told him the whole truth, especially on this very important birthday?  Where does Gogol believe his father’s limp comes from?  Why doesn’t Gogol like his name at this point in his life?

4. Why does the family go to Calcutta, India for eight months?

5. How does the family’s meal order on the plane reflect the “two cultures” traveling together?

6. What adjustments do Gogol and Sonia have to make in their life in Calcutta?

7. What effect does the family’s visit to the Taj Mahal have on Gogol?

8. How does the train trip back to Calcutta remind Ashoke of his previous mishap on a train?

9. After the family’s return to the States, what book does Mr. Lawson, the English teacher, assign to the class? How does Mr. Lawson’s account of Nikolai Gogol’s life affect Gogol?

10. Why don’t Ashima and Ashoke find it strange that Gogol doesn’t date?