Connection Questions: Toby Mc. Guire
Free write #s 14, 51, 8, 73 and 92
Bio Notes on Eugenia Collier
Vocabulary and words to know
Reading summary
Reading Log
"The Nightingale"
Free write # 5 Today write about someone who has sacrificed for you, or someone you have sacrificed for. Write out who, what, when, where, and why of the sacrifice. Please include the following information:
Free write # 60 " Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin." - Barbara Kingsolver
'Sweet Potato Pie" (cont'd)
Dialect - The speech that is characteristic of a particular group or of the inhabitants of a specific geographical region.
Flashback - An interruption in the telling of the story, when the writer " flashes back" to tell us about events that happened earlier.
Figurative Language - The use of language that goes beyond the words' literal meaning. Figures of speech.
Imagery - Language that appeals to the five senses. Images help to re-create experiences vividly and add to reader's enjoyment of what is described. Mental Pictures in words.
Smile - Compare two unlike using the word like or as.
Metaphor - A direct comparison between two unlike things. It does not use the word like or as.
Extract from the text an example from the story for each of the literary terms defined. Pg. 244, Paragraph 6.
"One thing for sure, bad as you is, you ain gon be no preacher."
Free write # 57 - Today write about a time that you were embarrassed for someone else.
Free write # 85 - Quotation
"If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give more though." - Denis Roth
Free write 92, 5, 60, 57, and 85.
Literary terms and definition.
Examples of terms with text.
"Sweet Potato Pie" reading summary (reading log)
What is the setting of the story?
What is the relationship between the narrator and Charley?
How does the narrator feel about Charley?
Why is Buddy's success in school a personal triumph for his brother's and sister's?
What is Charlie hoping to do when he hits Buddy with the wet dish rag?
Is Charley a cruel person?
Explain what the narrator means when he says his parents were "shadowy figures," and that their money "was made from the sweat of bodies and from their children's tears?
What does Buddy mean when he says "my mind spins off the years?
What does Buddy mean when he says " I realized in that moment that i wasn't necessarily the smartest-only the youngest"?
Identify the conflict at the end of the story. How is the conflict resolved?
Connection Questions: What is your reaction to Charley when he comes after Buddy at the end of the story?
How would you describe the relationship between Buddy and Charley? Cite evidence to support you answer.
How did their family life help to shape Buddy's and Charlie's lives and personalities: their respective positions in the family birth order, the family's livelihood, Buddy's comment that "Charley never had any childhood at all."
Why do you think the NARRATOR feels that visiting Harlem is somehow like going home?
If you were Charley, how would you feel about your life compared to Buddy's?
At the end of the story Buddy states, "I suppose we all operate according to the symbols that are meaningful to us." What symbols are important in your life and what do they represent? (e.g. car = freedom/success)
Free write # 21- Today write about LOYALTY.
Free write # 91 - Quotation
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." - James Michener
Complete ALL content and connection questions for "Sweet Potato Pie" by Eugenia Collier
Complete Session One Pt B including essay/report for class credit.
Free write # 24 - Today write about the qualities that a relationship needs to have (romantic, friend, family) in order to survive the tests of time.
Continue work in class.
Free write # 21 - Quotation
"Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often, as intolerance." - Henry Ward Beecher
Notebook Collection:
Free writes 85, 12, 91, 25, and 21.
Content and connection questions.
Session One Pt B
Listening Rdg. Tomorrow.