Monday, October 29th - Ethan Frome Chapters 1,2, & 3

Coming up: Friday will be your first vocab quiz of next quarter on the words from last Friday!!!

LAST DAY FOR GRADES IS FRIDAY!!!

Objective: By the end of this lesson students will be able to:
1) analyze what happened in chapters 1,2, and 3.
2) complete the corresponding questions that help identify themes throughout the novel and character analyses.

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.

Procedure:
1) come in and take out your vocabulary lists from Friday.
2) We will spend the first 10 minutes reviewing the list for Friday’s quiz.
3) We will spend the remainder of class completing chapters 1,2, and 3 of Ethan Frome and analyzing how these questions help us better understand the characters and what might happen.

Name ____________________________                     Questions Chps. 1-3

Directions: As we discuss these chapters as a class, fill out your answer to these questions. These will be due tomorrow at the start of class.

Chapter 1:

1. Since we know from the Prologue that the novel involves a tragedy, what foreshadowing devices has the author used? How is the setting itself a foreshadowing?

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Chapter 2:

1. How is Ethan’s conflict between his feelings for Mattie and those for Zeena voiced?

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2. How are Mattie and Zeena contrasted, physically?

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3. Why is the missing door key significant?

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Chapter 3:

4. How are the two women contrasted psychologically?

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5. How is Ethan’s conflict intensified in this chapter?

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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