doppelgangers: Tuesday October 30th - Ethan Frome Chapters 4 & 5

Coming up: Friday is your Ethan Frome vocabulary quiz and is the first grade of your next quarter!

Friday is the last day for grading!!!

Objective: Students will demonstrate understanding of chapters 4 and 5 and their significance by:

completing their reading based questions and discussing it as a class.

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, take a seat and turn in your Chapters 1-3 questions.
Take the first 15-20 minutes of class to complete your questions for chapters four and five INDEPENDENTLY.
We will discuss the questions together for the remainder of class.

Name ____________________________ Questions Chpts. 4-5

Directions: Take the first 15-20 minutes of class to fill out your answer to these questions. We will the come together as a class to discuss them. These will be due tomorrow at the start of class.

Chapter 4:

What traits in Ethan are shown when he asks Andrew Hale for the “unprecedented” $50.00 advanced?

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Find two examples where Wharton uses color adjectives and explain the impact/significance:

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Chapter 5:

Why does Ethan claim sledding on “a night like this,” is too dangerous? (pgs. 79-80)

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On page 82 Mattie states, “Nobody can tell with Zeena,” while on page 83 Ethan states, “Oh no, don’t let’s think about it, Matt.” What does this show about the difference between the two characters?

Why does Ethan ask Mattie to sit in Ethan’s chair? What is her response and why?

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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