L 7-8
We are spending another day on ch. 10. Please respond. Due by 5:00 pm on Thursday. 12.17.
1. One of the things that connects Kit and Hannah is that both of them are outsiders in this community, although for different reasons. Read here about what Quakers today say about what they believe. What are their four "shared practices"? Tell in your own words what they mean.
2. Why does Rachel think Quakers are dangerous?
3. a. Why is Kit willing to risk punishment by continuing to visit Hannah?
b. How might this show something positive about Kit?
c. How might this be seen by some in a negative way?
4. How does Uncle Matthew criticize John Holbrook?
5. How has Kit's teaching changed?
6. How does Hannah earn money to help pay for taxes and fines?
7. What does she pay taxes on?
8. What is she fined for?
9. a. Who is Hannah's "sailor friend"?
b. How does he show his friendship for her?
c. What is there about him that irritates Kit so much?
L 9-10
Today we are reviewing the unit on short stories. Create a chart/table with several columns in which the following information is accurately and neatly displayed. For each story in the unit:
1. the name of the story
2. the author
3. one unusual fact about the author
4. a one-sentence summary of the plot
5. one unusual feature of the story--be specific
6. the theme of the story
7. your personal rating (1-5 stars) and why--be specific, but brief
Due by 5:00 pm on Thursday. 12.17.
WL
Some more background may be helpful before you begin reading.
1. This kind of play is called a tragicomedy. Just as in real life, the silly and the absurd stand side by side with matters of great seriousness and potential tragedy. That will be apparent from the very first pages of this play. Characters speak and act oddly, yet they are also dealing with some very deep matters. People's feelings are very much on display.
2. The Russia portrayed in the play is a Russia in transition. The old feudal past with its strict separation between one social class and another is breaking down. You will see some of that already in Act I. But this is not just a play about sweeping social changes (the Communist Revolution was only about 13 years away). Many of the characters are going through their own personal transitions--where do we go from here? What would be the best thing to do now? Everything seems unsettled and uncertain, however much some characters would like to believe otherwise.
3. There are two groups at the beginning of the play. One group (Mme. Ranevsky, Anya, Charlotte, and Yasha) is returning from Paris after living there for five years. The people in the other group (Barbara, the other daughter; Lophakin and Pishtchik, friendly neighbors; Epikhodof, the clerk; Dunyasha and Firs, the servants; and Trophimof--why is he even around?) have been managing the best they can back in Russia, most not very successfully.
4. Mme. Ranevsky is the sun around which all the other characters are planets. Every other character has a significant connection with her as well as smaller connections with each other. Nearly everyone has a serious problem to deal with. As you would guess, Mme. Ranevsky's problems are front and center. Older characters like her have a past that they can't or won't let go of. Can the younger characters help them with that? We shall see.
5. The play is entitled The Cherry Orchard. It is constantly brooding over the characters physically (it is part of the scenery on stage) or mentally as a frequent topic of conversation. In the course of the play it will come to mean many things for many people. That will be very evident already in Act I.
For Thursday, 12.17: Read the above and let me know that you have read it. Questions are welcome, as always.
For Friday, 12.18: Read Act I with these things in mind. Let me know that you have read it.
B 7-8
Please read II Kings 4:42-44 and John 6;1-15. Write a paragraph of no fewer than 100 words in which you compare and contrast the two stories. Due before 5:00 pm on Thursday, 12.17.
B 9-10
Read Gen. 42. In a paragraph of no fewer than 150 words, discuss how the events in this chapter relate to earlier events in Gen. 37-41. Due before 5:00 pm on Thursday, 12.17.
F1
Return to the page you have just studied. For each of the words listed here, give the English equivalent and a mem.
1. les os 2. la cote 3. les poumons 4. le sang 5. le coeur 6. le rein 7. la machoire 8. la dent 9. le cerveau
Due before 5:00 pm on Thursday, 12.17.
F2
Sur la Route de la Contrebande.
Theo: Read chs. 1 &2. Write a brief summary and let me know about any problems.
Dominic and Jimmy: Read ch. 1 and let me know about any problems. Then answer "Que sais-je" A & B in complete sentences.
Due by 5:00 pm on Friday, 12.18.
F3
Do some more stories from the same site, the same way, for Friday, 12.17.
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