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Coming up: vocabulary quiz on Tuesday, April 4
In class: collecting the background graphic organizer from yesterday.
In class: setting information on Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
quick write to establish personal connection to setting.
characters in the eponymous Ethan Frome.
Make sure to bring the book to class each day. You now have your own copy in which to annotate. I do not have any extras.
personal quick write to connect to setting and characters
Quick write class handout / copy below. Please respond to the following thoroughly, using at least one complete page.
Begin with an MLA heading, as review.
your name
instructor's name
Ethan Frome quick write 1
29 March 2017
Imagine that you live alone, in a remote rural area without either companionship or any means of communication such as a telephone, TV, or electronic mail. What do you think it would be like to live isolated from other people? What are some possible effects of living a life of isolation How do you think you might react to living an isolated life?
(I will collect these at the close of class. (Graded assignment; please me mindful of language conventions (spelling, punctuation, capitalization) and vary your syntax.
When you have finished, proof read by reading your work aloud in your head. These will be collected as a class participation grade.
For those of you who will not be here Thursday or Friday.
Make sure to have read the prologue by Monday. I will collect the following at the beginning of class on Monday.
When you have finished, proof read by reading your work aloud in your head; then begin reading the Prologue, responding to the following content and analysis questions. I will collect these at the start of class tomorrow. You are responsible for pages 3-25 tomorrow.
(class handout/ copy below).
Please note that the text is available on line, in case you do not have your book.
Name__________________________________ Prologue questions
Due Wednesday, Monday, April 3 For full credit, your responses must be complete, well-written, grammatically correct sentences.
1. What does the name Starkfield suggest about the setting?
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2. How does Herman Gow corroborate this later? Find his words on page 6.
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3. Give two words that portray the stereotype of an engineer.
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4. How is the narrator, whose name we never learn, atypical*? (Think about how he views Ethan).
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5. What could be the significance of the missing “L” structure on the farm?
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6. What places to Herman Gow and Mrs. Ned Hale Occupy in the story?
a. Gow:_____________________________________________________________________________
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b. Hale:_____________________________________________________________________________
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Ethan Frome Vocabulary Words First List…quiz on Tuesday, April 4…power point review on Monday, April 3
1. sardonic: adj. Scornfully or cynically mocking; sarcastic.
2. colloquial: adj. 1. Characteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language or to writing that seeks
the effect of speech; informal. 2. Relating to conversation; conversational.
3. innocuous: adj. 1. Having no adverse effect; harmless. 2. Not likely to offend or provoke to strong
emotion; insipid.
4. reticent: adj. 1. Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself;
Restrained or reserved in style. 3. Reluctant; unwilling.
5. poignant: adj. Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings: poignant anxiety; profoundly moving; touching: a poignant memory.
6. wraith: n. 1. An apparition of a living person that appears as a portent just before that person's
death. 2. The ghost of a dead person. 3. Something shadowy and insubstantial.
7. wistful: adj. 1. Full of wishful yearning. 2. Pensively sad; melancholy.
8. undulation: n. 1. A regular rising and falling or movement to alternating sides; movement in waves.
9. tenuous: adj. 1. Long and thin; slender: tenuous strands. 2. Having a thin consistency; dilute;
having little substance; flimsy: a tenuous argument.
10. throng: n. 1. A large group of people gathered or crowded closely together; a multitude.
throngs v.tr. 1. To crowd into; fill: commuters thronging the subway platform.2. To press in
to gather, press, or move in a throng.
11. vex: (verb) 1. To annoy, as with petty importunities; bother. 2. To cause perplexity in; puzzle.
12. laden: adj. 1. Weighed down with a load; heavy: "the warmish air, laden with the rains of those
thousands of miles of western sea" Hilaire Belloc. 2. Oppressed; burdened: laden with grief.
13. preclude: 1. To make impossible, as by action taken in advance; prevent. 2. To exclude or prevent (someone) from a given condition or activity: Modesty precludes me from accepting the honor.
14. succumb: (verb) 1. To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in. 2. To die.
15. foist: (verb) 1. To pass off as genuine, valuable, or worthy: "I can usually tell whether a poet . . . is foisting off on us what he'd like to think is pure invention" J.D. Salinger.
2. To impose (something or someone unwanted) upon another by coercion or trickery:They had extra work foisted on them because they couldn't say no to the boss. 3. To insert fraudulently or deceitfully: foisted unfair provisions into the contract.
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