Due 10/29

Read Chapters 14 - 15.

Complete 2 more Journal Entries.

Generate 3 more level four and five questions over the whole book.

Tomorrow you need to be prepared for a guided Socratic Circle. Not only will others be scoring, but I will as well. Additionally, I will ask specific reading questions over chapters 1 - 15 so be prepared.

Academic Decathlon

The location for all the Ac Dec resources is:

Jessups Ac Dec

Read the whole blog for resource info and times.

Reading Assignment and Homework DUE 10/28 - Read entire blog

 

Read Chapters 11 - 13: Develop three Level 2 questions and one Level  3 question (or level 4 and five in Blooms) that you think needs to be answered. Be clear and specific with your questions!

If you aren't familiar with levels of questions watch: https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/developing-better-questions 

If you still are having trouble with levels of question (and even if you aren't) you'll need to review and pay particular attention to the handouts specifically for English : Costa's and Bloom's handout 

Bloom' Level 4 and 5 are preferable to Costa's

 

You will be graded on your ability to question as well as answer. HMMM, See note on plagiarism below.

Dialectic / Dual Entry Journal

You will submit your 1st two entries for Grading - FOLLOW THE JOURNAL FORMAT INSTRUCTIONS, NO EXCEPTIONS!!!

Topic clearly labelled on left

PASSAGE on left  with chapter and page in parentheses at the end (chapter 1, page 3)  ---- Your Response on the right. Your paragraph of 8 - 10 Complex and compound sentences and two simple sentences should demonstrate an understanding of what the Author is saying and how (metaphor, simile, imagery, personification, irony) why it's significant to the chapter, why it's important to the novel as a whole (what other things in the book it connects to and how), what it's saying about a character and why,  and what it reveals about Janie's quest to find her voice and why it's important.

 

A word to the wise - as I've seen MANY Identical sets of reading question answers. If I see plagiarized work in any way, shape, or form I will record 0s for each student and follow the academic integrity protocols for Townview. In simple language - don't try to copy, don't try to change a word here and there, don't try to do this as a group project. Your journals will be completed individually outside of class. 

 

I will be looking for two entries each class from now untill 11/10 when the complete journal is due - yes, i'll be reading every word.

 

Homework Due 10/26

Read Chapters 8 -10 answer the following questions according to your period: Yes, there will be a quiz

1st period

1. Explain Janie’s split consciousness: How does one part of her stay in the store and the other lie under a shady tree?
2.  How does Joe react to growing older? Discuss Janie’s consciousness of Joe’s aging.
   
3. What prompts Janie to remark, "When you pull down yo’ britches,you look lak de change of life." How do the men respond? How does Joe respond? Why?
   
4. Explain the following simile: "Joe’s vanity bled like a flood."
   
5. What does the phrase "the sleep of swords" indicate about the atmosphere between Joe and Janie after Joe is publicly embarrassed by her?
   
6. Janie describes Joe’s face as having "a look with all the unthinkable coldness of outer space." How does this contrast to the way he looked when they first met?
   
7. Why does Joe choose a voodoo doctor instead of a medical doctor when he is ill? Be clear and specific.
   
8. Explain Janie’s concept of Death. Again, clarity and specificity count!
   
9. In Janie’s final conversation with Joe, she says, "Mah own mind had tuh be squeezed and crowded out tuh make room for yours in me." Why did she wait twenty years to say this to him?
   
10. Janie’s reaction to Joe’s death is, "Poor Joe! . . . Jody is dead. Mah husband is gone from me." Why does Janie refer to her husband with two different names?
    
11. What is the difference between Janie’s thoughts and actions when Joe is buried?
    
12. What does Janie’s burning of the head rags symbolize? Why is this important?
    
13. What memories of Nanny does Joe’s death trigger in Janie? How is this important?
    
14. What do the townspeople assume will happen to Janie after Joe’s death? Why?
    
15. Why does Hezekiah imitate Joe and what does Janie think about it?
    
16. Explain Janie’s confidence to Pheoby that "mourning oughtn’t tuh last no longer’n grief." Be Clear and Specific
    

    2nd period -

    Chapter 8 

    
    
    
    1. What do the following metaphors that begin Chapter 8 suggest? “He had crawled off to lick his wounds.” “But the stillness was the sleep of swords.” “Well, if she must eat out of a long-handled spoon, she must.” (77)
    2. How did Janie feel after the big argument in the store? (78)
    3. What does the narrator reveal about Jody that Janie does not know? (78)
    4.  What did Janie tell Joe just before he died? (82) and why?
    5. How is the couple’s situation ironic? What type of irony is it?
        6. Explain Janie’s split consciousness: How does one part of her stay in the store and the other lie under a shady tree?
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Chapter 9
    
    
    1. What was the only change that people saw in Janie after Joe's funeral? (85)
    2. Why does Janie burn her head rags? (85)
    3. Why does Janie hate her grandmother? Why is this important?
    4. Explain what Hurston means by saying that Nanny choked Janie with the horizon. Did Nanny intend to hurt Janie? (85)
    5. What did Phoeby and the other townspeople think Janie should do? (86)
    6. How does Hurston weave folklore into this chapter? (85-86)
    7.  What did Janie think of the idea of remarrying? (87)
    8. What did Janie say about mourning and grief? (89) and why is this significant?
    9. Why does Janie discourage all of her suitors? (89)
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Chapters 10
    
    
    

    1. *How did Janie meet Tea Cake? (90-91)
    2. Why is the checker game between Janie and Tea Cake significant? (91-92)
    3. What is Tea Cake’s real name, and what does he look like? (92-93)
    4. Describe the overall tone of this chapter. How do the attitudes of Janie and Tea Cake affect the tone? List 6 words that create the tone and say why you chose them (use text support).

     

    3rd period-

    1. Explain Janie’s split consciousness: How does one part of her stay in the store and the other lie under a shady tree?
    2.  How does Joe react to growing older? Discuss Janie’s consciousness of Joe’s aging.
       
    3. What prompts Janie to remark, "When you pull down yo’ britches,you look lak de change of life." How do the men respond? How does Joe respond? Why?
       
    4. Explain the following simile: "Joe’s vanity bled like a flood."
       
    5. What does the phrase "the sleep of swords" indicate about the atmosphere between Joe and Janie after Joe is publicly embarrassed by her?
       
    6. Janie describes Joe’s face as having "a look with all the unthinkable coldness of outer space." How does this contrast to the way he looked when they first met?
       
    7. Why does Joe choose a voodoo doctor instead of a medical doctor when he is ill? Be clear and specific.
       
    8. Explain Janie’s concept of Death. Again, clarity and specificity count!
       
    9. In Janie’s final conversation with Joe, she says, "Mah own mind had tuh be squeezed and crowded out tuh make room for yours in me." Why did she wait twenty years to say this to him?
       
    10. Janie’s reaction to Joe’s death is, "Poor Joe! . . . Jody is dead. Mah husband is gone from me." Why does Janie refer to her husband with two different names?
        
    11. What is the difference between Janie’s thoughts and actions when Joe is buried?
        
    12. What does Janie’s burning of the head rags symbolize? Why is this important?
        
    13. What memories of Nanny does Joe’s death trigger in Janie? How is this important?
        
    14. What do the townspeople assume will happen to Janie after Joe’s death? Why?
        
    15. Why does Hezekiah imitate Joe and what does Janie think about it?
        
    16. Explain Janie’s confidence to Pheoby that "mourning oughtn’t tuh last no longer’n grief." Be Clear and Specific

     

    Station work and Tone Vocab from 10/22 Due at beginning of class

     

Homework and Reading

TEWWG Chapters 5 - 7 Reading Questions - Answer on college ruled notebook paper using COMPLETE sentences.

Chapter Five

1. Why do you think the author begins Chapter 5 with the sentence “On the train the next day, Joe didn’t make many speeches with rhymes to her…” Why is this sentence familiar?

2. What is Janie and Joe’s first impression of the town?

3. When Joe realizes what the town is really like, what does he plan to do

4. What do you think of Amos Hicks and Lee Coker? What do their personalities and behavior tell you about the town?

5. Why do you think Joe Starks is so set upon building a store and a post office? What does this tell you about his personality and motives?

6. How do the townspeople reward Starks?

7. How does Joe treat Janie? What does/doesn’t he allow her to do?

8. What is symbolic about the streetlamp that Starks bought?

9. How does Janie feel about her marriage to Joe?

10. How is Janie treated as the Mayor’s wife?

11. What is symbolic about the way Starks paints his house?

12. What do the townspeople notice about the way Joe treats Janie?

Chapter Six

1. How do the men at the store tease Matt Bonner about his mule?

2. Why is Janie having such a hard time managing the store?

3. Why does Starks buy the mule from Matt Bonner?

4. How is freeing the mule symbolic? To whom do the townspeople compare Starks?

5. Why doesn’t Joe allow Janie to go to the “draggin’-out”?

6. After the mule dies, the townspeople begin an entire funeral for the mule. Even the buzzards engage in

what hints at a ritualistic ceremony. Why do you think Hurston included this strange ceremony among the

buzzards?

7. Why does Joe think that Janie is being ungrateful?

8. According to Sam and Lige, what is it that keeps a man from being burned on the stove? Explain. Who do you think “wins” the argument?

9. What do you think the author meant by “The bed was no longer a daisy-field for her and Joe to play in”?

Chapter Seven

1. How is Janie able to “tolerate” her relationship with Jody?

2. What does the narrator mean by “For the first time she could see a man’s head naked of its skull”?

3. Why did the narrator say that the incident with the tobacco was “like somebody snatched off part of a

woman’s clothes while she wasn’t looking and the streets were crowded”?

4. How old are Janie and Jody now?

5. How does Janie insult Jody about his age?

6. How does Jody react to this insult?

Tone Vocab -

In the back of your comp book make three columns - word, definition, "my" definition. Please complete columns one and two from the "Language Words" list.