ENGLISH – 1st trimester – Day 19
1. After turning in your test, find your life’s story (look for your graph stapled to it) and read through your life as an inanimate object.
2. Next, write down:
a. something you want really badly in your life…
b. and explain what you are willing to do to get it
3. Read the first paragraph on page 236.
“He strayed away by himself from the watchers whom he had placed in ambush on the crest of the hill, and wandered far down the steep slopes amid the wild tangle of undergrowth, peering through the tree trunks and listening through the whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the branches for sight and sound of the marauders. If only on this wild night, in this dark, lone spot, he might come across Georg Znaeym, man to man, with none to witness - that was the wish that was uppermost in his thoughts. And as he stepped round the trunk of a huge beech he came face to face with the man he sought.”
i. Ultimately, what does he want and does Ulrich get what he wants?
ii. What does he have to do to get it?
iii. Write down 2 quotations from the story where you think each character may have been lying (not telling the truth).
4. In Demetri Martin’s book, This Is A Book, he writes from a genie’s point of view and he comically responds to all the people who find his lamp and wish for money. He argues that the conservation of wealth states that if a genie grants somebody’s wish for money, the genie must take the money away from families who are already quite poor or from the economies of developing countries or both.
· Is there anything for which you would hurt needy people in order to get?
Watch video: The Interlopers (A Short Film by Ben Hurst)
ENGLISH homework:
PART 1:
Use your literary terms handout for definitions and look through “The Interlopers” (pg. 235-240) and write down an example of each of the following:
1. irony (pg. 4 of handout)
2. internal conflict (man vs. himself) (pg. 1 of handout)
3. omniscient narration (pg. 2)
4. part of the setting that suggests something bad is going to happen (pg. 2)
5. mood (pg. 2)
PART 2:
“The Interlopers” is a story about:
· 1. feuding 2. hatred 3. revenge 4. tragedy 5. death
· 6. pity 7. change of heart 8. forgiveness 9. hope
i. Make a list or chart that lists the nine items/themes listed above.
ii. Find an excerpt from the story (word for word) that shows each of the above traits…no repeats
iii. Finally, identify which type of conflict each one represents (man vs. ____)
Our Literature book can be found, online at
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