ENGLISH – HOURS 1 & 3 – Day 18
· Collect homework: 10 questions (from class yesterday) + 3 events from Interlopers
· WARMUP: In a full paragraph, explain how “The Farmer’s Luck” and “The Interlopers” are related.
· CHALLENGE: Without re-using any of the words in the sentences, write down what any 2 of the following sentences mean. REMEMBER, you may NOT use any of the key words in the sentence. Think what the author is saying about the character in the sentence or what it is suggesting?)…
· Here’s an example: “I’d read the book before it was released.”
· DON’T WRITE: He really wanted to read the book.
· DO WRITE: He loved this author and felt a real connection to his work.
- It was still dark after the sun rose.
- I was home before I was off the bus.
- The mom had screamed before the baby even fell.
4. The ball was in the hole while I was in mid swing.
5. The man was dead while he was alive.
6. She was silent while she was singing.
7. She checked out of the hotel before she even packed.
Introduced “John Updike” sentences – showed student examples then inferred what the author was saying - literal vs. suggested
- infer what the author meant to say
John Updike tells us what it was like to see Ted Williams hit a home run in his last at bat in Fenway Park on September 28, 1960:
“It was in the books while it was still in the sky.”
What makes the sentence so effective? The fulcrum (pivot point/hinge word) of the sentence is “while”; on either side of it are two apparently very different kinds of observations. “It was in the books” is metaphorical (symbolic). Updike imagines, correctly, that this moment will be memorialized (remembered) in the future and he confers (writes) that mythical status on the moment before it is completed, before the ball actually goes out of the park.
· How hard is it to write a sentence like Updike’s? Let’s try. What you need is a hinge word (fulcrum)…
o HINGE WORDS: while, before, after
o “It was in my stomach before it was off the shelf.”
o “She was enrolled in Harvard before she was conceived.”
o “He had won the match before the first serve.”
o “They were celebrating their victory while the other team was still at bat.”
Divide “The Interlopers” story into 4 sections (pg. 235, pg. 236, pg. 238, pgs. 239-240)
- Summarize the key points of each page.
- Write down the theme for “The Interlopers.” In other words, what do you think the author hoped we would learn about life after reading his story?
- Nothing obvious…do not write that we should watch for falling trees. This is NOT theme. Themes are deeper than that.
· TO BE COLLECTED:
- Create 3 “Updike” sentences that are “impossible”...one each, using a different fulcrums: while, before, after
ENGLISH homework – HOURS 1 & 3:
· Study the second set of 11 prefixes from “30-15-10” PINK master list for Friday’s PREFIX test. (hypo – pro)
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ENGLISH – HOURS 4 & 5 - Day 18
· Collect homework: defend 5 of 11 statements
· Discussed the relative size of our individual and our collective worlds (according to geography (North/South/East/West and age)
· Discussed the tendency to NOT broaden our horizons…even in a safe place like the school cafeteria.
- Why would we choose the disadvantages over the advantages?
- We are going to start forming habits.
- Is avoiding people who are different/unknown to us going to be one of these life-long habits?
· Began “Case Study” work (to finish AND COLLECT FOR GRADE). After reading one of the case studies…
- Write down 3 reasonable solutions.
- For each of your 3 solutions, write the 2 advantages and 2 disadvantages.
- Decide which solution is best.
- In 8 sentences, tell what is likely to happen after your solution is carried out. In other words, what is the ending to your story? It must be believable.
- What will happen immediately?
- What will things be like in a week or two?
- How will things be affected in 10 or more years?
ENGLISH homework – HOURS 4 & 5:
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