March 13, 2017 - March 17, 2017

Monday, March 13th:
Kahoot! Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Reviewed Hamlet! 
Short multiple choice test over an excerpt from The Awakening 

 I suspect that a number of you did not read the weekend's assignment - and I forgot the page numbers I assigned -  which was to read up to page 285, Chapter XXV, so I am going to revise the assignment to read from 220 to 261 and do the following: 

For tonight, read from page 220 to 261; write a short summary and note the figurative language: the quotation using the figurative language, paraphrase the example of the figurative language - explain what it means; what does it reveal about the character and/or the situation. 

Please be aware that you must be finished with The Awakening by Wednesday, March 15th, for we are exchanging the book for A Doll's House. So on Tuesday, you will have to read from pages 261 to 351.

Assign Vocabulary Unit 4, #11 - 20; due Friday, March 17th

Tuesday, March 14th: 
Practice Free-Response Essay Question #2 on The Awakening

Wednesday, March 15th: 
Must be finished with The Awakening by today! Go to library to turn in The Awakening, and check out A Doll's House! 
Begin reading A Doll's House - read up to page 8
Finish reading Act 1 for tonight; pages 28

Thursday, March 16th: 
In-class timed essay on The Awakening
 
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Discussion of grades
2005 AP Prompt:
In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899) protagonist Edna Pontellier is said to possess “that outward existence which conforms, the inward life that questions.”
In a novel or play that you have studied, identify a character who outwardly conforms while questioning inwardly. Then write an essay in which you analyze how this tension between outward conformity and inward questioning contributes to the meaning of the work. Avoid mere plot summary.



Friday, March 17th: 

Multiple Choice Questions over the last excerpt from The Awakening

  For homework this weekend, please read Act One and Act Two in A Doll's House

A Doll’s House
1.     Examine the possible meanings of the title. Write down what you think the title implies.
2.     Examine the setting as described by Ibsen. What does the description say about the characters and the possible themes?
3.     Irony plays an important part in this play. Track and explicate the ironic elements as you encounter them in your reading.
4.     Examine Ibsen’s use of foils to expose traits in the characters: Torvald and Krogstad, Nora with Krogstad, and Nora with Christine.  What do the foils reveal about the other characters?

Act One
Examine the following elements in this act and write what :
1.     Torvald’s nicknames for Nora. List them. What does this reveal about Torvald’s feelings about his wife?
2.     Nora addressing her husband by his first name, which was taboo in the 19th century. Again, what can we infer about Nora by her breaking this taboo?
3.     Nora’s fondness for contraband or “illicit” macaroons. What does this say about Nora – that she is willing to push the boundaries? What can we infer about this?
4.     Nora’s fondness for cursing, saying “hell” or “damn”! What can we infer about this?
5.     The games Nora plays with her children – the fact that she gets down on the floor, hides under the table,  and “rough-houses” with the kids? What can we infer about this?
6.     Her wastefulness with money?
7.     Her deceptions!
Answers:
Some of Torvald’s nicknames for Nora are:
Little songbird
Torvald calls her “little songbird” when he admonishes her not to lie about the macaroons.
What does “little songbird” reveal about Torvald’s attitude towards her? The term “little” implies condescension. A songbird is beautiful but still not human.
Little person
Little soul
Feather head
Skylark
Little squirrel

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