Friday, October 26th - Prologue of Ethan Frome

Coming up: Your response questions for the Prologue are due at the end of class today. Your vocabulary quiz will be next Friday, 11/2.

Objective: Complete response questions to the Prologue using COMPLETE SENTENCES THAT RESTATE THE QUESTION BEING ASKED.

Learning Targets:

1. 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).
2. 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.
3. 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.

To do list:

1. When you enter, take out your book and your Prologue questions.
2. We will spend the first 10 minutes of class going over the vocabulary for next week's quiz. It is at the bottom of this blog post.
3. With the remaining time, please finish the Prologue independently and finish your response questions. THESE ARE DUE AT THE END OF CLASS. If you finish early, use the time to start CHAPTER 1.
4. YOUR HOMEWORK FOR THIS WEEKEND IS TO READ CHAPTERS 1, 2, & 3.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND 😊

Name__________________________________ Prologue questions  

Due at the end of class on Friday, October 26. For full credit, your responses must be complete, well-written, grammatically correct sentences.

1. What does the name Starkfield suggest about the setting? How is it symbolic to the life there?
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2. Give two words that portray the stereotype of an engineer.

1) ____________________________                 2)_______________________

3. How does the structure of Ethan’s house reflect Ethan physically? (Weave in text)

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4. What places to Herman Gow and Mrs. Ned Hale Occupy in the story?

a. Gow:________________________________________________________
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b.     Hale:_________________________________________________________
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5. How old was Ethan during the “smash-up” twenty for years prior?

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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.

Resources:

• Audiobook: 

• Background Knowledge and Summaries:
• Thug Notes: 

• Chapter Summaries: https://www.teachervision.com/ethan-frome
• Ethan Frome Timeline: https://www.shmoop.com/ethan-frome/ethan-frome-character-timeline.html