Thursday, November 1st - Ethan Frome "Who Said That?!"

Coming up: Your character charts will be due tomorrow at the beginning of class as your final grade of the quarter. Your 1st vocabulary quiz of next quarter is TOMORROW! SEE BELOW FOR WORDS IF NEEDED!

Objective: We will gain a better understanding of the characters and plot of Ethan Frome by analyzing their quotes and filling out the "Who Said That?!" Chart. This will help us to better analyze the movie tomorrow and Monday.

Learning Targets:

• Cite strong and thorough evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. 
• 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 the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful

Procedure:

1. Please come in, grab a chrome book and take a seat. KEEP YOUR CHROME BOOK CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS!!! 
2. Turn in your questions on Chapters 6 & 7.
3. Please log into your chromebooks and go to: https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/51456b52-5a82-4d9c-ae68-7a2f39ae220a
4. make an APPROPRIATE name for the quiz and play the game! Your job is to identify which character said the quotes!
5. Please put your chrome books away and take a seat. 
6. For the remainder of class, we will discuss the quotes together as you fill out your "Who Said That?!" chart. This is due TOMORROW AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS!
7. With 5 minutes left, lets discuss how this activity went for you!

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Name: ________________________ 11/1/18

Who Said That?!

Directions: As we review the questions from the Kahoot, write down which character said the corresponding quote and why it is that person. Make sure to also include why the quote is significant.

Quote	Character who said it	Why it is that person and the quote’s significance
“Guess he’s been in Starkfield too many winters. Most of the smart ones get away.”
“I guess you’re always late, now you shave every morning.”
“You’d have found me right off if you hadn’t gone back to have the last reel with Dennis,”
“I can’t go on the way I am much longer. The pains are clear away down to my ankles now,”
“She never meant it should be used, not even when there was company. . . she’ll want to know why -”
“I’ve been in a dream, and this is the only evening we’ll ever have together.”
“. . . didn’t need anyone telling me I was losing ground everyday. Everybody but you could see it.”
“. . . that you drudged me the money to get back my health, when I lost it nursing your own mother!
“. . . my things where you couldn’t get at ‘em - and now you’ve took. . . the one I cared for most of all”

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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.
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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