Vocabulary quiz 1/2 way through period: Bean Trees  words 1-10 

HOMEWORK: FINISH CHAPTER 3

Characterization charts for Taylor and LouAnn

Reading time for first 45 minutes. 

As you read, keep a characterization chart for Lou and continue your characterization chart for Taylor. Do it like this:

Taylor Greer

What She is Like                                  Specific Example Showing What She Is Like

List one thing (confident, maybe)      
                                                                     1.

                                                                      2.

List another thing (kind, etc.)           
                                                               1.

                                                                 2.

Lou Ann Ruiz                            

What She is Like                                  Specific Example Showing What She Is Like

List one thing (you pick)                    
Passive (not pro-active)                              1. "she didn't particularly do anything about [her relationship falling apart]" (34)

                                                                      2.

List another thing                                 1.

                                                                2.

NOTE: This book is available as a free audiobook at audiobooks.com

Monday, Feb. 22

Vocabulary for Friday: Bean Trees 

Memorize words 1-10 for Thursday
Finish chapter 1 tonight

HOMEWORK: Read pages 1-46--FINISH CHAPTER 2

NOTE: This book is available as a free audiobook at audiobooks.com

Characterization--The Bean Trees

Taylor Greer

What She is Like                       Specific Example Showing What She Is Like

• Independent               1   "[He gave the job to me] because I was the first to ask" (8)

                                                   2. "I would get myself a new name" (15)

                                                

• Mature
• Funny
• 1. 

                                                    2.

                                                    3.

                                                    4.

Thursday

Grapes of Wrath Vocabulary Quizlet Deck
bemuse, truculent, perplexity, conjecture, cantakerous, prodigal, exort

Go to library to check out The Bean Trees.

Vocabulary for Friday: Bean Trees 
Finish chapter 1 over the weekend

Memorize words 1-20 for next Thur/Friday

Characterization--The Bean Trees

Taylor Greer

What She is Like                       Specific Example Showing What She Is Like

1. Funny          

HOMEWORK: Read pages 1-30 over the weekend
NOTE: This book is available as a free audiobook at audiobooks.com





 Is it Ethical to Euthanize Your Dog?
Write 1 1/2 pages as a group developing your argument after reading the following documents:
Oregon Death with Dignity Act  and Q/A regarding Oregon Death with Dignity Act       
 Is it Ethical to Euthanize Your Dog?
To Euthanize or Not to Euthanize              

Tuesday

1. Hand in 20 quotes for points (10 points). Go to the following links to find the quotes. 
2. "The Grapes of Wrath"--why did Steinbeck give the book this title?
Find more good quotes at these sites if you don't already have 20:
Three-fold cord
Quizlet quotes
Quotes superimposed on images--nice
Sparknotes Jim Casey and Tom Joad
Schmoop Jim Casey quotes
Cliffnotes on Jim Casey
There are countless quotes at this site: Goodreads, Grapes of Wrath
3.Extra credit to students who read the ending of the novel and take the Honors Class test.
Pages 281-313 on Monday and Tue/Wed and have a quiz over that reading as well as a couple of questions from the movie. The entire novel is available at the following link:
The Grapes of Wrath
You may also have a copy of it at home and many copies are to be found in the library, as well as numerous other very worn out copies that we have in the English department.
You may want to do this reading over the weekend if you think that you will be too busy to get the reading done next week. In the past, students have done surprisingly poorly on this quiz {:^o
4. Dorothea Lange photos
5. In groups of four, answer one of the following two-part questions. Use at least four of the quotes that you have written down to support your assertions. Each questions has two parts. Answer the first part and then the second part. One paper, all four names. 25 minutes to write as much as you can. This is an in-class assignment, not homework.
Steinbeck musings (not in the novel):
OPTION1: "I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor membership in literature"--Steinbeck

• --What is wrong with mankind (as man is portrayed in the novel) and what will it take to perfect this world, according to Steinbeck?

OPTION 2: "I wonder how many people I've looked at in my life and never seen"--Steinbeck--

• Why don't we look at people? What does seeing a person properly entail?

 (next week) Grapes of Wrath vocabulary for quiz on Tue/Wed
Grapes of Wrath Vocabulary Quizlet Deck

1. (optional Honors English assignment) Read pages 281-313 of The Grapes of Wrath Monday night and Tue/Wed and have a quiz Thur/Fri over that reading as well as a couple of questions from the movie. The entire novel is available at the following link:
The Grapes of Wrath
You may also have a copy of it at home and many copies are to be found in the library, as well as numerous other very worn out copies that we have in the English department.
You may want to do this reading over the weekend if you think that you will be too busy to get the reading done next week. In the past, students have done surprisingly poorly on this quiz {:^o
2. Grapes of Wrath vocabulary for quiz on Tue/Wed of next week
Grapes of Wrath Vocabulary Quizlet Deck
bemuse, truculent, perplexity, conjecture, cantakerous, asail, restive, exort
3. Finish the movie
Journal, in class: Write 3/4 page responding to one of the two Steinbeck quotes listed below. You will do this in groups of 3-4 and write 1 paper.
Steinbeck musings (not in the novel):
"I wonder how many people I've looked at in my life and never seen"--Steinbeck
"I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor membership in literature"--Steinbeck

Watch the movie The Grapes of Wrath today

Write a total of 20 quotes (10 points). Go to the following links to find additional quotes. I want you to find at least three more Jim Casey quotes and tell me where you found them (Goodreads, etc.) Feel free to go to sites other than the ones listed here.
Read this link first on the significance of the quote/title "The Grapes of Wrath"
Three-fold cord
Quotes superimposed on images--nice
Sparknotes Jim Casey and Tom Joad
Schmoop Jim Casey quotes
Cliffnotes on Jim Casey
There are countless quotes at this site: Goodreads, Grapes of Wrath