Literature 7-8
Read "The Spaniard" and the notes below. Respond in complete sentences. Due Wednesday, May 27. Do not send your assignment before then.
Although the chapter is entitled "The Spaniard," this character does not appear until the end of the chapter. Most of the chapter is concerned with the final weeks of the voyage back to North America and the terrible things that happened during that time. Everybody is thirsty, except the captain and the first mate. More and more people are dying, both sailors and slaves. Jessie feels like a prisoner himself. 1. Write out the quotation on p. 79 that shows this.
To make matters worse for Jessie, Ben Stout keeps tormenting him in his creepy way--staring at him, asking personal questions, threatening him while pretending to be friendly, and generally playing mind games with him. 2. What reason would Stout have to do this?
Purvis, although he is a rough customer, is doing his best to look out for Jessie, but he can only do so much. He gives Jessie a creepy warning about the kind of person Ben Stout is. 3. What does he say about him on p. 82? Write it out.
Up to now, Jessie has been thinking much of home. 4. Why do you think that is? But now he is think of home more and more. 5. Why do you think that is?
Ben torments Jessie by stealing his fife. 6.What did he steal earlier in the book? He threw the fife in the hold where the slaves are being kept in horrible conditions. 7. Why do you think he did that?
When Jessie goes down into the hold, he can see very much because it is so dark. But he can use his other senses. 8. What does he step on? 9. How does he describe the smell on p. 86? Write it out.
10. How does he get his fife back?
When Jessie gets back on deck, he is very shaken up. He can barely play the fife. 11. What game does Purvis play with him afterwards to get his mind off of his traumatic experience? 12. What does he say to Jessie that is intended to encourage him?
As they approach Cuba, Ben Stout distributes metal files. 13. How are these going to be used?
They put up a Spanish flag because they are now in Spanish waters, and the captain meets with the Spaniard. 14. What is the purpose of this meeting? 15. What is creepy about the Spaniard's servant?
American Literature
A. Read about E. E. Cummings on p. 584. 1. What did his father do? 2. Why was Cummings imprisoned during WWI? 3. What is generally true of his poetry?
B. Listen to Cummings's reading of the poem "i thank you god". The words are printed in the description, but for now I'd like you to concentrate on what you hear. In about 50 words, give your initial impressions of the sounds and the meaning of the poem.
Due Wednesday, May 27. Do not send your assignment before then.
British Literature
We will be having a Zoom session again tomorrow. I will send out invitations later today. You should have finished and responded to each chapter of Lord of the Flies by now; if you haven't, you need to do that. As usual, come to the session prepared to ask questions and to share some of your insights on the book as a whole, including the theme.
C.S. Lewis
We will be having a Zoom session again tomorrow. I will send out invitations later today. You should have finished and responded to chs. 1-13 of That Hideous Strength by that time. You do not have to do responses to the last four chapters so long as you have them read by class time. As usual, come to the session prepared to ask questions and to share some of your insights on the book as a whole, including the theme.
Luke and Acts
Acts 27:1-26. Read and respond in complete sentences. Due Wednesday, May 27. Do not send your assignment before then.
1. Who is Julius?
2. Who is Aristarchus?
3. What kindness did Julius show to Paul at Sidon?
4. Luke has told us about noble centurions. a) How does Jesus praise the centurion at the beginning of Luke 7? b) What did another centurion say about Jesus at his death (Lk. 23:47)? Cornelius was also a centurion. c) How did he show he was a God-fearing man (Acts 10:2)? d) How did he show great respect for Peter (10:25-26)? e) How did God bless Cornelius and other Gentile believers (10:44-46)?
5. The next stage of the trip to Italy has been difficult. a) What prediction does Paul make? b) How does the centurion respond?
6. Going westward, the ship encounters "a wind of hurricane force." List 3 things the crew does to try to keep the ship afloat.
7. Paul's next prediction has both a negative side and a positive side. Explain.
Poets and Prophets
Isaiah 61 continued. Due Wednesday, May 27. Do not send your assignment before then.
A. Another cluster of images relates to plants. 1. Give 2 examples from this chapter. 2. Give an example from a) Is. 8; b) from Is. 35, and c) from Is. 60.
B. Another cluster relates to rebuilding. 1. Give an example from this chapter. 2. Give another example from Is. 58. 3. What historical example is narrated in the book of Ezra? 4. What historical example is narrated in the book of Nehemiah?
C. Another cluster relates to inheritance. 1. Give an example from this chapter. 2. How does this relate to Ps. 16? 3. Write out Prov. 13:22. 4. Give an example from Is. 58.
D. Another cluster comes from the lexical field of priesthood. 1. Give an example from this chapter. 2. How does this language tie in with the following: a) Exodus 28; b) Psalm 45; c) I Peter 2:9; d) Revelation 21.
Introduction to French
See Friday's post.
Intermediate French
In your Easy French Reader, we will continue our reading with some fiction, for a change. On pp. 152-161, read the introduction to Daudet and his famous story "La derniere classe." (That's pretty good timing, n'est-ce pas?) Answer the questions at the end of each section. Turn in your answers no later than this Friday, but do so one section at a time. Don't turn in anything today.
Advanced French
See previous post.
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