Hope of a Life

READ until the end of page 42 (chapter 10).   Focus on the plot, setting, and character development as you read.  There will be a short essay quiz on Monday, May 6th.

Character development – What do you know/learn  about Alexander and Helen?  How do they "develop" as characters? What are their traits? How effectively are new characters introduced? 

 Plot – How is tension built and created?  How does the author SHOW you what happens?  As you read, what details evoke emotions/responses in you? 

Setting -- Where does it take place? Who/what is involved?  Who matters?

Hope of a Life: Journal 3

Read from pg. 5-17 for Wednesday.

Each individual needs to respond to their "group question".

Kuan, Arah, Juli, Franco: Character development – What do you know/learn  about Alexander and Helen?  How do they "develop" as characters? What are their traits? 

Timo, Ale, Perla, Saem Plot – How is tension built and created?  How does the author SHOW you what happens?  As you read, what details evoke emotions/responses in you? 

Sara, Jose Kim, Jose Mongelos , Mateo Setting – Where does the story take place (in these chapters). Who is involved?  Who matters?

1/2 page journal minimum.  

Unit 13 Vocabulary: #1-10 due Thursday, April 25th, #11-20 due Tuesday, April 30th.

#1-10

abstruse, affront, canard, captious, cognizant, contrite, cynosure, decorous, deign, desiccated

#11-20

efficacy, engender, ethereal, facade, ghoulish, incongruous, machination, mesmerize, opprobrium, putative

Hope of a Life: Journal 2

Read until the end of chapter one. Write a 1/2 page journal

 1. What is introduced? AND HOW COULD IT BE IMPROVED?

 2.  How could a reader relate to the main character? (question reworded: What emotions and feelings are similar to your own life?) 

 3.   What are you interested to read about as the book progresses? (question reworded: What parts seem mysterious or exciting?  What do you want to know more about?)

Hope of a Life: Journal 1

 Read the first two pages of your SSR book.  How does your SSR book compare to the introduction of Hope of a Life in terms of form?  3/4 page.

1. What is introduced? 

2.  How could a reader relate to the main character? (question reworded: What emotions and feelings are similar to your own life?)  

3.   What are you interested to read about as the book progresses? (question reworded: What parts seem mysterious or exciting?  What do you want to know more about?)

Unit 12 Vocabulary: #1-10 due on Thursday, April 11 #11-20 due Tuesday, April 16

#1-10

aesthetic, defunct, discomfit, espouse, fetish, gregarious, hapless, impeccable, importune, interpolate.

#11-20

irreparable, laconic, languish, mendacious, nadir, omnipresent, perfunctory, plaintive, requite, tantamount.