Monday, January 26th:
Period 1:8:00 - 8:20
Time Line:
Continue working on the time line for The Bluest Eye
8:20 - 9:11
Read The Bluest Eye
Assignment: Do the next major event in Pecola’s life on the
time line, which will be due at 8:15.
Next major event in Pecola’s life is found on page 66
through 74. Maureen rescues Pecola
from the bullying of boys who call her “Black e mo” and mock her because she
has seen her father naked.
For homework: Find the next major event in Pecola’s life, Junior and the Cat
(page 88 – 93).
Summarize the event in your own words and include a
quotation which sums up the feeling or importance of the event.
Vocabulary:
Fastidious: showing care and concern regarding details. Very attentive to details,
particularly regarding appearance and cleanliness.
Solicitude: showing care and concern for another
Omnipresence: omni means all. All present
Deity: God or goddess
Strophe: the first section of a Greek choral poem
Antistrophe: the second section of a Greek choral poem
Words that end in ion and ment are nouns.
Exaltation: a feeling of extreme happiness.
Guarded: wary, wanting to protect oneself, not open,
reserved in opening up oneself to
something or someone.
Read The Bluest Eye; pages
140 - 144; "Aunt Jimmie's funeral"
Period 2:
Read The Great Gatsby
Work on the time line for The Great Gatsby
Tuesday, January 27th:
Shortened Day
1st Period:
The Bluest Eye
No one did the homework so assigned during "BIC". Review pages 88 - 93 (Junior and the Cat) and find the next major event in Pecola’s life. Write a quotation
that expresses the main theme or idea of the event. Be sure to include the page
number.
Event: Brief description of what happens. Who are the
characters involved? Where does it happen? When does it happen? Why is this
event important in forming who Pecola is?
Include a quotation and a page number
This will be due at 8:20
Read The Bluest Eye
Page 145 – 149 (Cholly is humiliated by white men while losing his virginity)
Vocabulary:
Bereaved: to be deprived of a loved one’s presence,
particularly due to the loved one’s death. (Adjective)
Reminiscences: memories
Premonitions: a feeling that something bad is going to happen.
For homework: review pages 97 – 109: After Frieda is molested by Mr. Henry, Frieda and Claudia reason that Frieda is "ruined" by Mr. Henry and that she might become fat like the Maginot Line, so to keep Frieda skinny and not "ruined", she should drink alcohol. But where can two little girls get alcohol? Pecola's father is a well known drunk, so they go searching for her to get her father's alcohol. The first place they go to is one of Pecola's favorite hangout spots, the apartment of Pecola's neighbors, where the three prostitutes, the Maginot Line, China and Poland, live and work. China and Poland are also prostitutes but they are not grotesquely fat like the Maginot Line, because they drink and the alcohol keeps them skinny (the girls' parents tell them that the women "are eaten up by alcohol".) But the two sisters are frightened by the huge mass of violence and seduction that is the Maginot Line, and they go seek Pecola at the rich white family's home, where Polly works as a maid and caretaker for the family's little girl. Claudia and Frieda find Pecola helping her mother with the rich family's laundry. The girls are angered when the little white girl comes into the kitchen and is free to call Pecola's mother by her first name, a familiarity that is denied Pecola. When Pecola accidently spills a hot pie fresh from the oven on herself and the floor, Polly turns on her screaming, but when Polly hears the frightened whimpering of the little white girl, Pecola's mother turns to comfort the little white girl by holding her and calling her baby.
Write a description of what occurs in the scene. Who is in the scene? Where does the scene occur? Then include a quotation, which sums up the events in the story.
Write a description of what occurs in the scene. Who is in the scene? Where does the scene occur? Then include a quotation, which sums up the events in the story.
Period 2:
Read The Great Gatsby;
pages 150 – 163
Discussion: nouveau riche versus old money, class, status,
“The American Dream”
Wednesday, January 28th:
Period 1:
For homework tonight:
Review pages 145 – 158 to write a brief summary of the
events that occurred in Cholly’s life.
Find a quotation that sums up the events or the importance of the
events.
Brief schematic of pages 145 - 158:
1. Cholly
is losing his virginity with Darlene
2. Two
white men with guns interrupt them and embarrass them
3. Cholly’s
ancestral home home is dismantled
4. Cholly
goes on a search for his father
5. He
finds his father in a back alley where he refuses him, he rejects him.
6. After
his father rejects him, Cholly, reduced to an infantile state, soils himself.
Vocabulary:
Tenuous: weak, loose, a connection that is not strong
Infantilized: the root word is infant and means reduced to a
state of helplessness and dependence.
Aunt Jimmy was a surrogate mother. Surrogate means
substitute.
Period 2:
Grammar and vocabulary review:
Students correct six sentences in class taken from the Unit Six vocabulary test
Quick power point on opinion vs. facts
Students correct six sentences describing the major characters in The Great Gatsby.
Students then select two characters to find two quotations from the book to support the description of the characters.
Exit ticket: turn in the corrected sentences and the quotations.
Thursday, January 29th:
Period 1:8:00 - 8:20
Time Line:
Continue working on the time line for The Bluest Eye:
Review pages 110 - 131, which is the back story of Polly Breedlove, Pecola's mother. This section describes her childhood, her courtship with Cholly, their marriage and their children. Write a brief description of what occurs. What are the most important events in Polly's life and why? How do these events help shape Pecola's life? Find a quotation which sums up or comments on these events.
8:20 - 9:11
Discussion of yesterday's reading, pages
Period 2:
Finish reading The Great Gatsby
Discussion of yesterday's reading, pages 145 - 158.
Friday, January 30th:
1st Period:
Review The Bluest Eye;
pages 110 – 130
Review those pages for the major events in Polly Breedlove’s
life: her childhood, her courtship with Cholly, their marriage, the births of
her children and the sour bitterness which has overcome her. Choose a
significant quotation which sums up who Polly Breedlove is.
Read The Bluest Eye; pages 158 - 163
Read The Bluest Eye; pages 158 - 163
2nd Period:
Time Line
Character Chart
“Chasing the Motif”
Motif: recurring symbol, which occurs throughout a book,
music, or poetry, in order to support a theme.
Possible Motifs:
The green light
Cars
Colors: yellow, green, blue, pink
The Eckleburg Eye Glass Sign
Valley of Ashes
West Egg/East Egg
Example:
Motif
|
Context
|
Quotation
|
Analysis
|
The Valley of Ashes
|
Fitzgerald describes the valley of ash as a bridge between
East Egg, the home of the old moneyed families of storied wealth, and West
Egg, the home of the upstart nouveau riche (new money). The valley of ash is described by
Fitzgerald as a desolate place, filled with gray, colorless buildings and
gray, colorless men whose work churns out the gray ash that covers and
smothers and destroys both the men and the land.
|
Chapter 2; page 23,
Fitzgerald writes: “This is a valley of ashes…where ashes
take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke…and of men who move
dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.”
|
“The Valley of Ashes” is a nightmare of industrial waste –
which is the by-product of the selfish, destructive pursuit of wealth and
power. “The Valley of Ashes” is described as a bridge between two rich
communities, West Egg and East Egg; the Valley of Ashes is a place where no one
of consequence, of money, of status, would willingly linger. This is where
the poor people live, like George and Myrtle Wilson, who are preyed upon,
used, abused and discarded by the rich, like Tom Buchanan.
|
For homework over the weekend, please go through the book
and do the following:
Choose two motifs
Create a chart for each motif
FOR EACH MOTIF,
PLEASE HAVE THREE (3) ENTRIES.
EACH ENTRY SHOULD
HAVE THE CONTEXT BOX FILLED (who is in the scene, what is occurring in the
scene, and why is this important).
EACH ENTRY SHOULD
HAVE THE QUOTATION BOX FILLED WITH A QUOTATION (with the page number) FROM THE
BOOK.
EACH ENTRY SHOULD
HAVE THE ANALYSIS BOX FILLED WITH YOUR ANALYSIS WRITTEN IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
(Please do not plagiarize!)
If you are
doing the valley of ashes or any other motif, then you should have three
examples from the book, complete with a context for each one, a quotation for
each one, and an analysis for each one.
