doppelgangers: Wednesday October 31st - Ethan Frome Chapters 6 & 7

Coming up: Your vocabulary quiz is Friday - we will review the words briefly today. Discussion questions on the book thus far ARE DUE TOMORROW AND THIS IS THE LAST GRADE OF THE QUARTER!!!

Objective: To understand the significance of chapters 6 and 7 and analyze what is happening in the plot of Ethan Frome. Students will demonstrate this understanding by:

completing their chapters 6-7 questions and demonstrating understanding through participation

Learning Targets:

Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed)
Determine two or more themes or 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 produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
Interpret words and phrases that are used in the text, including technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape the meaning.

Procedure:

Come in, sit down, and turn in your questions for chapters 4 and 5.
We will spend the first 10 minutes reviewing vocabulary words for your test on Friday.
We will spend the rest of class answering the questions on your worksheet together. Whatever is not completed is due TOMORROW AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS.

Name ____________________________ Questions Chpts. 6-7

Directions: We will the come together as a class to discuss these questions for the next 20 minutes. These will be due tomorrow at the start of class. ANSWER IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.

Chapter 6:

At the beginning of this chapter, how does Wharton describe Ethan’s mood or emotions?

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What does the bad weather at the beginning of this chapter foreshadow?

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Ethan spends this chapter trying to get glue to fix the broken pickle jar. What does the broken pickle jar, as well as his inability to fix the pickle jar, represent?

Chapter 7:

What does Zeena say the doctor ordered her to do? What is the implication behind this suggestion?

What emotion does Ethan feel after his argument with Zeena? Why?

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What does the broken pickle jar represent for Zeena on page 111. Find the quote that demonstrates this.

Ethan Frome Vocabulary Words…quiz on Friday, November 2nd!

1. sardonic: adj. Scornfully or cynically mocking; sarcastic.

2. colloquial: adj. 1. Characteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language or to writing that seeks

the effect of speech; informal. 2. Relating to conversation; conversational.

3. innocuous: adj. 1. Having no adverse effect; harmless. 2. Not likely to offend or provoke to strong

emotion; insipid.

4. reticent: adj. 1. Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself;

Restrained or reserved in style. 3. Reluctant; unwilling.

5. poignant: adj. Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings: poignant anxiety; profoundly moving; touching: a poignant memory.

6. wraith: n. 1. An apparition of a living person that appears as a portent just before that person's

death. 2. The ghost of a dead person. 3. Something shadowy and insubstantial.

7. wistful: adj. 1. Full of wishful yearning. 2. Pensively sad; melancholy.

8. undulation: n. 1. A regular rising and falling or movement to alternating sides; movement in waves.

9. tenuous: adj. 1. Long and thin; slender: tenuous strands. 2. Having a thin consistency; dilute;

having little substance; flimsy: a tenuous argument.

10. throng: n. 1. A large group of people gathered or crowded closely together; a multitude.

throngs v.tr. 1. To crowd into; fill: commuters thronging the subway platform.2. To press in

to gather, press, or move in a throng.

11. vex: (verb) 1. To annoy, as with petty importunities; bother. 2. To cause perplexity in; puzzle.

12. laden: adj. 1. Weighed down with a load; heavy: "the warmish air, laden with the rains of those

thousands of miles of western sea" Hilaire Belloc. 2. Oppressed; burdened: laden with grief.

13. preclude: 1. To make impossible, as by action taken in advance; prevent. 2. To exclude or prevent (someone) from a given condition or activity: Modesty precludes me from accepting the honor.

14. succumb: (verb) 1. To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in. 2. To die.

15. foist: (verb) 1. To pass off as genuine, valuable, or worthy: "I can usually tell whether a poet . . . is foisting off on us what he'd like to think is pure invention" J.D. Salinger.

2. To impose (something or someone unwanted) upon another by coercion or trickery:They had extra work foisted on them because they couldn't say no to the boss. 3. To insert fraudulently or deceitfully: foisted unfair provisions into the contract.

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