To Kill a Mockingbird due

Due: "A White House Diary" questions #1-4 pgs. 102-110
Due: recipe for To Kill a Mockingbird

Due: To Kill a Mockingbird chapter 16
Literary device #3 due.
Latin Roots quiz Unit 7 postponed until Tuesday

Grammar Test

Grammar (green textbook) pages 614 and 615. Pg. 592 ex. 30 and 31

Due: To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 14-15

Due: To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 10 and 11.
Latin Roots: Unit 6 quiz

Due: To Kill a Mockingbird Historical Research

Literary device #2 due
Latin roots: unit 5 quiz

Due: To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 3 & 4

Autobiographical Narrative due pg. 94-96
To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 3 & 4 due

Due: To Kill a Mockinbird chapter 1 questions and vocabulary definitions (lists 1-6)

Grammar definitions due. See page R-50 for help

Textbook: Read "the Washwoman" by Isaac Singer pg. 24-32. Answer questions #1-4.
Prepare for Of Mice and Men Final

Due: Literary Device #1
Latin Roots: Unit 3 quiz

Latin Roots: Unit 2 quiz
Of Mice and Men chapter 4 due
Of Mice and Men
Advanced Placement in English Literature
and Composition Teaching Unit
Study Guide
Student Copy

Chapter Four
1. Some of the character names are nicknames, given to describe a characteristic, such as
Slim (thin) and Crooks (crooked spine). Other names, however, seem to point to deeper
meanings. Why do you think Steinbeck chose the following names for his characters?
Use examples from the novel to articulate your opinion.
Curley:
Whit:
Candy:

2. Explain the implications of Steinbeck’s not giving Curley’s wife a name.

3. Often, the setting is not just “where the story happens,” but instead is a geographical,
historical, social, economic, or philosophical setting. Steinbeck spends a great deal of
time describing Crooks’ living quarters at the beginning of this section. What does the
reader gain through this description? What do we learn about Crooks?

4. How does Crooks respond when Lennie comes to visit him? Explain the irony in the
situation.

5. Contrast Crooks’ initial response to Lennie and his later response. Why does he change?

6. How is Crook’s loneliness different from the other characters on the ranch?

7. Why does Lennie become upset with Crooks? Why does Steinbeck include this
interchange between Lennie and Crooks?

8. What explanation does Crooks give for upsetting Lennie?

9. Compare the way Candy responds to George and Lennie’s dream, and the way Crooks
responds to the dream.

10. When Curley’s wife comes to Crooks’ door, how is her initial response to the men
parallel to the way in which Crooks initially responds to Lennie?

11. Who comes to visit Lennie, Candy, and Crooks? What is the real reason behind the visit?

12. When Curley’s wife sees Lennie, Candy, and Crooks talking together, how does she
characterize them?

13. Characterize Curley’s wife as she is presented in the novel. How is the reader supposed
to feel about her?

14. How is the theme of power and powerlessness developed at the beginning and in the
final section of this chapter?

15. Why does Steinbeck diverge from his narration to focus a chapter on two different
characters in the novel, Crooks and Curley’s wife?

16. When Curley’s wife is asked to leave Crooks’ room, she begins to threaten Crooks. Cite
examples from the imagery that indicate Crooks feels defeated.

17. Explain the circular nature of the chapter and what it implies about Crooks.

18. Explain the following expressions from chapter four:
• “They’ll take ya to the booby hatch.” (p. 72):
• “…and listen how Curley’s gonna lead with his left twict, and then bring in the ol’
right cross?” (p. 78):
• “What you think you’re sellin’ me?” (p. 78):
• “Caught in a machine—baloney!” (p. 78):
• “I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny.” (p. 79):

Of Mice and Men, Finish reading chapter 3. Answer questions #1-9.

Bring in a copy of Of Mice and Men Study Guide Questions


You may record your answers on these papers or another sheet.
Chapter Three

1. What does the reader learn about the relationship between George and Lennie as George talks to Slim?






2. Why does George reveal to Slim what happened to them in Weed? What is Slim’s response? Explain the irony in George’s confession.






3. Why does Steinbeck try to create sympathy for Lennie? Is he successful?





4. Read the following passage found on page 48. This is just one of the several images of silence that Steinbeck uses:
“His voice trailed off. It was silent outside. Carlson’s footsteps
died away. The silence came into the room. And the silence lasted.”

Why does silence play an important role at this point in the novel? Who is literally being silenced? Who is metaphorically being silenced, and what role does each man play in the silence?






5. Where does Whit invite George and Lennie to go? What type of establishment is it? What is George’s response, and what does this tell you about George’s belief in his dream?





6. Describe the situation that occurs when Curley comes into the bunk house. What does this situation illustrate about Curley’s character and his relationship with his wife?





7. What do you suppose Lennie’s statement might suggest, allegorically (symbolically), when he says, “…live offa the fatta the lan’…an’ rabbits,” especially in light of the way George goes on to describe it (57-58)?




8. Explain how the theme of survival is highlighted on page 60.





9. After George, Lennie, and Candy make a pact not to tell anyone about their dream, Candy makes the following statement: “I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog” (61). Explain the parallelism between the relationship Candy had with his dog and George has with Lennie. How might this statement be an example of foreshadowing?





10. How does Steinbeck maintain the integrity of Lennie’s character after he violently injures Curley?






11. Why will Curley keep quiet about what Lennie did to him and not try to get George and Lennie fired? How does this reflect on Curley’s character?






py of Of Mice and Men chapter 3 questions.

Literary Terms test

Latin Roots: Unit 1 quiz

Of Mice and Men. Chapter 1 questions #1-9

My Antonia reading quiz

Summer Reading Test: My Antonia
Due: "Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin
Three writing workshop "chunks"

Due: Literary Terms definitions and examples. Use textbook for as many terms as possible.

Writing Workshop practice. "Priscilla and the Wimps" One Schaffer "writing workshop" paragraph.

Due: "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connel
Due: Supplies and signed syllabus

Due Date: 08/22/2013
Textbook and Common Core companion:
Pages 4-8. Fiction and Non-fiction elements
Take notes: specifically pages 4, 5 and 8.