Juniors Pd 3 & 4:  Essay test Wednesday and Thursday-- I've already given you the quotes so that you can plan ahead!

Seniors Pd 6:  Answer Q 7-10 regarding the excerpt of Escape from Camp 14** provided in class.  We finished Qs 1-6 in class.
If you did not complete the classwork questions from Friday regarding the article "U.N. starts inquiry into torture, labor camps in North Korea"  please do so by Friday.
**Disclaimer: this excerpt is being used for educational purposes only.

Juniors Pd 7 & 9
Read and listen to the rest of "The Ballot or The Bullet" speech by Malcolm X.  Write down your impressions of the speech in a paragraph.

You can find the speech on YouTube.

Juniors Pd 3 & 4:

HW #7 pgs. 132-153

1) What was Cholly's life like with Aunt Jimmy?

2) What happened to Cholly during his first sexual encounter?  How does this change him?

3) Why does Cholly decide to go to Macon?

HW #8 pg. 154-163 (due Monday)

1) What happens when Cholly finally finds his father?

2) What does Morrison mean when she says that Cholly was "dangerously free" (159)?

3) What are Cholly's emotions before and after the rape?  Explain.

HW #9 pg. 164-183 (due Tuesday)

Warning: This is a weird chapter. You might want to read an explanation first here.

1) Why does Pecola go to Soaphead Church, even though he is a known pedophile?

2) How does Soaphead Church "grant" Pecola's wish?

HW #10 pg. 187-205 (due Wednesday)

1) How do people react to Pecola's pregnancy?

2) How does Pecola react?

3) How does the story end?

You will have a multiple choice test on Thursday.

Juniors Pds 7 & 9

You will present your rhetorical device paragraphs on the "I Have a Dream" speech on Friday.

Prepare to have a multiple choice test on the speech on Monday or Tuesday.

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY!!!! Find the text of an allusion in "I Have a Dream."  Write a short summary of the piece and explain why it was alluded to in the speech.

Seniors Pd 6 (due Friday):

HW # 10

Read pgs 104-115

1. Describe Elie's father's last days.

2. Describe the anti-climax of liberation (an anti-climax is an ending that you would expect to be exciting, but is not).

We will review what we have learned on Monday and Tuesday. Expect a test on Wednesday.

Juniors Pd 3 & 4: HW #6 pgs. 111-131

This chapter is about Pauline Breedlove-- the narrator switches from a third person narrator to a first person narrator throughout.  The first person narration is in italics.  

1.  What is the difference between the information found in the third person narration and the first person narration?  Why do you think that Morrison chose to do this?

2. How did Pauline and Cholly meet?  What do you think of their relationship? Include information found at the end of the chapter.

3.  How did the movies change Pauline's outlook on life?

4.  What was Pauline's relationship to her children, even from the beginning?

5.  Why does Pauline love working for the Fishers so much?

Juniors Pd 7 and 9: HW #4

Finish your paragraphs regarding the "I Have a Dream" speech. Some of you may have finished in class. In that case, you have nothing to do tonight! :-)

Seniors Pd 6 (due Friday):

HW # 10

Read pgs 104-115

1. Describe Elie's father's last days.

2. Describe the anti-climax of liberation (an anti-climax is an ending that you would expect to be exciting, but is not).

Juniors Pd 3 & 4
HW # 5

Read Spring (CH 6)

1. What has Mr. Henry done to Frieda?  Explain the direction of Frieda's feelings?

2. Why don't the girls want to be like the Maginot Line?  Why do you think she throws a bottle at them?

3. What is depressingly ironic about Mrs. Breedlove's treatment of Pecola at her employer's house?

Seniors Pd 6

HW # 9 Read Ch 6 & 7 pgs 85-103

Be prepared to answer questions in class

Juniors Pd 7 & 9:

HW #3: Finish reading the "I Have a Dream" speech.  Write down four quotes that you feel have significant content and four quotes that you feel have significant structure.
Also, explain why you got your answers wrong on the practice regents i gave you last week for hw.

Seniors Pd 6:

Ch 5 pgs 66-84

1 Describe the conditions that Elie and the other prisoners faced when they left Buna.

2 Compare and Contrast the relationship between Elie and his father from the beginning of the book until now.

Pds 3&4
HW #4 pgs 81-93 (finish Winter section)

1) Do you think that Morrison respects the kind of woman that she describes in pages 81-86?  Explain how you know.

2) Why do you think Junior becomes violent?

3) How is Geraldine's anger toward Pecola more painful than Junior's violence?  What parts of society does this reflect?

Pd 7

HW #1 was to find the writing elements in the very bad essay

HW #2 Perfect your "best" paragraph that you wrote in class on Angela's Ashes.

Pd 9

HW #1 was to find the writing elements in the very bad essay

HW #2 Perfect the essay you and your partner worked on in class. Make sure that it has all of the elements we look for in a strong essay.

Pd 6 

HW #7

pgs 47-65

1) Why do the "veteran" inmates call Buna a good camp?

2) What work do Elie and his father get assigned to do?

3) Why does Elie say he is nothing but a stomach (52)?

4) Elie manages to keep his gold crown (a filling in his tooth) once and then later loses it. Describe BOTH circumstances.

5) Why does the death of the pipel affect the camp in a way that other deaths no longer affect them?

Pds 3 & 4

Read pgs. 61-80

1.  Who is Maureen Peal?  What does she look like?  Why do Claudia and Frieda hate her?

2.  How does Maureen stand up for Pecola? Based on your reading of the entire chapter, how do you interpret what comes next in the interaction?

3.  Why do the girls decide not to tell their parents about Mr. Henry, China, and the Maginot Line?

Pds 3&4

HW #2: Read pages 23-57 (due Monday)

1) How does Morrison describe the place where the Breedloves live?  Be specific.  Why do you think she takes the time to describe it like this?

2) What is the point that Morrison makes regarding the Breedloves' belief in their own ugliness?  How does Pecola try to keep bad things from happening, in her imagination?

3) Thinking about the answer to the question above, why does Pecola love the Mary Jane candy?

4) What are the three prostitutes in the story like?  Why does Pecola like being with them?

Pd 6

Read Chapter 2 (pg 23-47)

1 How does Ms. Schachters dream of fire foreshadow future events in the book?

Chapter 3

1 Elie is interrogated by an inmate at Auschwitz. Why do you think the inmate tells Elie to lie about his age?

2 Elie is questioned by the "notorious" Dr. Mengele. What makes the doctor notorious? What role did he play in the Holocaust? (Do some research)

3 How does Elie know to lie to the SS officer about his age and profession?  Do you think he made the right decision?

4 Why do you think that the Nazi's shaved all the prisoners body hair? What was their purpose?

Pds 3 & 4
Read pgs 9-23 in The Bluest Eye.
1) How does Claudia characterize children's relationships to adults?
2) Explain the line "when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands that don't want me to die" (12).
3) Who is Mr. Henry?  Quote the line with foreshadowing.  Explain it.
4) Why is it shameful to be "outside"?  What do Claudia and Frieda do to keep Pecola from feeling outdoors?
5) Describe and explain the conflict embodied by Shirley Temple and the white baby dolls.

Pd 6

Read Chapter 1 for Friday

(I also encourage you to read the introduction)

1. Describe Elie Wisel's life in 1941.

2. How does Elie characterize his father? Use examples from the text.

4 Why is Elie attracted to cabbalah?  What does Moche the Beadle teach him about it?

5 What happens to Moche the Beadle when he is taken away?  What happens to him when he comes back? EXPLAIN WHAT MAKES THIS SIGNIFICANT.

6 Describe life in the ghetto.