Wednesday, February 4 ...review of Prologue

Learning Targets: 

Students will interpret words and phrases as they are used in the text, including technical, connotative and figurative meanings, and analyze how the specific word choices shape the meaning.
RI.11-12.2  Students will determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.
RI.11-12.3 Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text. 
RI.11-12.6 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text. 


Reminder: vocabulary quiz on Friday. Study! Power Point review tomorrow.

Graded assignments: have you turned in the following?
The last page on synonyms from "The Raven"? (January 23)
Your background information responses on Naturalism? (January 30)
The Prologue responses? (February 3)
See me outside of class, if you need another handout or better yet, check the assignment on the blog.

In class: please turn in the questions relating to the Prologue. Unless you had a legal absence yesterday, they are considered late after this time. If you were legally absent yesterday, I will give you a copy of the assignment at the end of class. Note, however, that it was on the blog.

Please complete the following anticipation guide

Anticipation Guide for Ethan Frome Directions: Before we continue reading  Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, we are going to make predictions about the novel’s messages and themes. Next to the following statements, write either “T” for true or “F” for false. Use your own understanding and background to answer each statement. Be prepared to defend your answer. Remember, we are simply anticipating the novel so feel free to guess! We will review this once more after we have read the novel.


 1. _____ Social and moral structures cannot place limits on one’s own passions, desires, and dreams. 2. _____ Small towns are great places to live if you love privacy and anonymity.

 3. _____ Being obsessed with illness (a hypochondriac) weakens one’s marriage

. 4. _____ A harsh, cold climate can be difficult for even a strong and brawny man to survive.

 5. _____ If it is true love, it will work out.

 6. _____ A person’s outward appearance can reveal much about their inner self.

 7. _____ The feelings of panic, love, and entrapment can lead to irrational behavior. 

8. _____ Sledding accidents are never serious. 

9. _____ If life doesn’t work out the way you wish it would, you should give up. 

10._____ Your thoughts impact your actions.


Review of the Prologue.

Essential question: What foreshadowing devices has Edith Wharton used to indicate that the novel is a tragedy?