Tuesday, April 11 chapter 4 text analysis / vocabulary quiz

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 can jealousy determine one's behavior?

Coming up: make sure to read through chapters 5 and 6 for tomorrow.

                    Anyone who is going on a field trip or leaving early for April break, make sure to have FINISHED the text by Monday, April 24.  We will be reviewing how the character of Ethan Frome embodies the qualities associated with literary naturalism. 

 On Tuesday and Wednesday, you will be writing in class on the above. 

Today in class: vocabulary quiz # 2 for Ethan Frome

                          graphic organizer on chapter 4 (writing grade; text necessary; take out your story. This is completely independent work, which will be collected at the beginning of class tomorrow.

Name	Chapter IV Responses   Ethan Frome
1.       Identify the tone of the following paragraph and, using textual evidence, explain why this has been established by 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)