E. Quinson

D-201

9H, period 5

 

Monday, March 9, 2009

SWBAT:  discover how our core values change our decision making and how this phenomenon plays out in Ethan Frome.

DO NOW:  Get a computer, log on, go to our blog and begin writing:  For which character do you have the most sympathy?  Why?

DEVELOPMENT:

  1. Discuss H.W. and DO NOW entries.
  2. See Study Guide for discussion questions and activities.
  3. In particular, discuss making decisions in an “impossible” situation.
  4. Review/summarize.

H.W.:  1.  Finish the novella.  2.  Blog it!  Who or what is responsible for the outcome of this novella? Write a few paragraphs explaining who or what caused the conditions that the narrator observes in Ethan Frome’s house.

 

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

SWBAT:  discuss denouement of Ethan Frome and analyze 3 examples of literary criticism about the novella.

DO NOW:  Get a computer, log on, go to our blog and begin writing:  Were Ethan and Mattie actually meaning to commit suicide?  Why didn’t Ethan aim more carefully for the tree?  What is it the author actually sees at the end? What meaning are we to make of this frame narrative, after all is said and done?

DEVELOPMENT:

  1. Review H.W. and DO NOW entries.
  2. Then whole class discussion: 

·        Were Ethan and Mattie actually meaning to commit suicide?

·        Why didn’t Ethan aim more carefully for the tree?

·        What is it the author actually sees at the end?

·        What meaning are we to make of this frame narrative, after all is said and done?

·        Frame structure.

·        How did the narrator learn about Ethan:  Herman Gow, Mrs. Ned Hale (Ruth Varnum), his own experience, and from going over the threshold….  What do you mean, going over the threshold?  Was simply being in the house enough?????  How can that be?

  1. Analyze literary criticism:
    1. Cynthia Griff Wolff – narrator as ghastly guide
    2. Elizabeth Ammons – fairy tale

Students will read and respond to each extract and then discuss them in small groups.

  1. Review summarize.

H.W.:  1.  Study for test.  Vocabulary and short answer.  The test will be Friday only. In some ways, it requires greater command of the novel than that.   To study for the test, you should re-read our blogs, and you could re-read novel; it is only 90 pp.  2.  Blog it!  Choose one of the critics we read today and blog in response.  

 

 

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

SWBAT:  analyze 3 examples of literary criticism about the novella.

DO NOW:  Write an entry:  How does reading other people’s opinions of this novella enrich your understanding of it?

DEVELOPMENT:

1.      Review H.W. blog entries.

2.      Analyze literary criticism:

·        Barbara White:  setting.

·        Blake Nevius, character – hero/protagonist/antagonist

3.      Students will read and respond to each extract and then discuss them in small groups.

4.      Review summarize.

H.W.:  Study for test.  Vocabulary and short answer.  The test will be Friday only. In some ways, it requires greater command of the novel than that.   To study for the test, you should re-read our blogs, and you could re-read novel; it is only 90 pp.  2.  Blog it!  Choose one of the critics we read today and blog in response.  

 

Thursday, March 12, 2009

SWBAT:  analyze 3 examples of literary criticism about the novella.

DO NOW:  Write an entry:  How does reading other people’s opinions of this novella enrich your understanding of it?

DEVELOPMENT:

  1. Review H.W. blog entries.
  2. Analyze literary criticism:
    1. Lionel Trilling – a dead novel, no morality
    2. Marlene Springer – all about morality
  3. Students will read and respond to each extract and then discuss them in small groups.
  4. Review summarize.

H.W.:  Study for test.  Vocabulary and short answer.  The test will be Friday only. In some ways, it requires greater command of the novel than that.   To study for the test, you should re-read our blogs, and you could re-read novel; it is only 90 pp.  2.  Blog it!  Choose one of the critics we read today and blog in response.  

 

 

Friday, March 13, 2009 Test on Ethan Frome—Vocabulary and Short answer.

 

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