A Complicated Kindness
1. Return Hamlet books, hand in Hamlet assignment.
2. A Complicated Kindness distributed.
3. Consider the prompt: In order to establish a strong community, it is necessary to ostracize some.
4. In-Class: Read first two chapters of ACK.
5. Homework: Answer the following questions; be prepared to discuss tomorrow:
Chapter 1
- Suggest two reasons why the narrator has "a problem with endings".
- When the narrator says, "I'm already anticipating failure", what does the reader realize about the narrator's character?
-What might the narrator mean when she says, "but I guess carnage has a way of creeping up on you?"
- How is death presented as a theme in the beginning of the novel?
Chapter 2
- What does "It was all fake" mean?
- Who do you think the Mouth is at this point in the story?
- Why does Nomi "abhor" the silence of the town at night? What does the silence represent?
- What is the one thing Nomi counted on when she was young (17). How does this inform the reader about her character?
- Explain what Nomi might mean when she says, "She approached life happily with open arms. Which could have been a mistake." (19).
Psychology 11
Module 6
1. Mock Psychologist assignment due.
2. Module 5 Quizzes returned.
3. Handout: 6-1 to 6-9; complete 6-1 in-class.
4. In-class read: p. 98-107; fill in 6-2
Homework: Write a journal entry (on anything).
English10E
To Kill a Mockingbird
1. Read Chapter 18.
2. Complete Chapter 18 Questions.
3. Film.
4. Homework: Journal Entry
*Tomorrow: Quiz - chapters 16-18
