Honors 20th Century Classics Agenda 8/31/2015
 Housekeeping- place homework on the
right corner, sharpen your pencils, dispose
of any trash etc.
 Complete Warm Up- Complete Friday’s Test
 Review the Essential Questions and Daily Objectives
 Introduce and Begin Reading Wharton’s Ethan
Frome
Essential Questions-Answer each of the following
questions:
 How much control do we have over the choices we
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make?
Is truth relative? Explain.
To what extent does our environment shape who we
are as people?
Which is more important, the need of the individual
or the needs of the group?
When is it permissible to turn your back on or let go
of a responsibility?
Objectives:
 Demonstrate knowledge of twentieth century
foundational works of American literature, including
how two or more texts from the same period treat
similar themes or topics.
 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support
analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as
inferences drawn from the text, including
determining where the texts leaves matters
uncertain.
Read the Prologue and Answer the Following:
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What does the name Starkfield suggest about the
setting? How does Herman Gow corroborate this later?
What is the stereotype of an engineer? How does the
narrator atypical? Does this add or detract from his
reliability? What does the following quotation suggest
about the narrator, [he} “began to piece together this
vision?” How would it be different if he had used the
word version?
What is significant about the missing “L” structure on
the farm?
Why does the author include Herman Gow and Mrs.
Ned Hale in the story?
Draw a picture of the setting and Ethan.
Honors 20th Century Classics Agenda 9/1/15
 Housekeeping- place homework on the
right corner, sharpen your pencils, dispose
of any trash etc.
 Complete Warm Up-Ticket In
 Review the Essential Questions and Daily Objectives
 Continue to Read and Analyze Wharton’s Ethan
Frome
Essential Questions
 How much control do we have over the choices we




make?
Is truth relative? Explain.
To what extent does our environment shape who we
are as people?
Which is more important, the need of the individual
or the needs of the group?
When is it permissible to turn your back on or let go
of a responsibility?
Objectives:
 Demonstrate knowledge of twentieth century
foundational works of American literature, including
how two or more texts from the same period treat
similar themes or topics.
 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support
analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as
inferences drawn from the text, including
determining where the texts leaves matters
uncertain.
Read Chapter 1
 Since the reader knows from the Prologue that the
novel involves a tragedy:
 Record possible instances of foreshadowing are
present in the text.
 How may the setting be a form of foreshadowing?
 Write down 6 questions that remain unanswered as
you complete the chapter.
Honors 20th Century Classics Agenda 9/2/15
 Housekeeping- place homework on the
right corner, sharpen your pencils, dispose
of any trash etc.
 Complete Warm Up-Ticket In
 Review the Essential Questions and Daily Objectives
 Continue to Read and Analyze Wharton’s Ethan
Frome
Essential Questions
 How much control do we have over the choices we




make?
Is truth relative? Explain.
To what extent does our environment shape who we
are as people?
Which is more important, the need of the individual
or the needs of the group?
When is it permissible to turn your back on or let go
of a responsibility?
Objectives
 Demonstrate knowledge of twentieth century
foundational works of American literature, including
how two or more texts from the same period treat
similar themes or topics.
 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support
analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as
inferences drawn from the text, including
determining where the texts leaves matters
uncertain.
Oppositions- Review
 What is “opposition?” Some people call opposition conflict but
that is too narrow. Opposition occurs when any pair of
elements contrast sharply. Another way to think about
opposition is tension- think of two opposing elements as if
they are magnetized poles attracting and repelling each other.
 Opposition may be as blatant as “night” and “day” or it may be
less obvious: a character who is naïve and a character who is
sophisticated. Opposition may be between an author’s style
and his subject- for example a formal, elevated style that is
heavy on analysis in a story about a hog farmer.
 Opposition may be a character- A foil is a character
serves to highlight one or more attributes of another
character, often the protagonist, by providing a
contrast.
Oppositions Continued
 Good writers often work with “quiet oppositions”- if you aren’t
paying attention you’ll feel what’s going on without realizing
where it is coming from.
 Many literary oppositions come from within a character.
Particularly if that character is dynamic (changes during the
course of a text) and round (has a variety of characteristics).
For example the character who wants a job that his
personality not cut out for.
 Another important opposition is tone. Some writers will write
about the silliest thing possible in a serious way (satire-A
Modest Proposal)
 Another important opposition occurs through the setting,
particularly time. Authors will often let the past stand in
opposition to the present. The story of a once proud family
that has fallen on hard times would be an example.
Chapters 2 and 3
Oppositions are often used in this text? How is
Ethan characterized? What oppositions exist in his
life? What oppositions does the author create in
her female characters?
2. The author continues to foreshadow a tragedy in
this chapter- how does she do so?
3. What is significant about the missing door key?
How does it add to the indirect characterization?
4. How is Ethan’s conflict intensified in Chapter 3.
What consequence does this have on his character?
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Honors 20th Century Classics Agenda 9/3/15
 Housekeeping- place homework on the
right corner, sharpen your pencils, dispose
of any trash etc.
 Complete Warm Up-Ticket In
 Review the Essential Questions and Daily Objectives
 Continue to Read and Analyze Wharton’s Ethan
Frome
Essential Questions
 How much control do we have over the choices we




make?
Is truth relative? Explain.
To what extent does our environment shape who we
are as people?
Which is more important, the need of the individual
or the needs of the group?
When is it permissible to turn your back on or let go
of a responsibility?
Objectives
 Demonstrate knowledge of twentieth century
foundational works of American literature, including
how two or more texts from the same period treat
similar themes or topics.
 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support
analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as
inferences drawn from the text, including
determining where the texts leaves matters
uncertain.
Explain the Speaker, Context, and Significance of
the Following Quotations:
 “He’s looked that way ever since he had his smash-
up; and that’s twenty four years ago come next
February.”
 “I merely felt in her an insurmountable reluctance to
speak of him and his affairs…”
 “It looks just as if it was painted,’ it seemed to Ethan
that the art of definition could go no farther, and that
words had at last been found to utter his secret
soul…”
 “His glance crossed Mattie’s and he fancied that a
fugitive warning gleamed through her lashes.”
Honors 20th Century Classics Agenda 9/4/15
 Housekeeping- place homework on the
right corner, sharpen your pencils, dispose
of any trash etc.
 Complete Warm Up-Ticket In
 Review the Essential Questions and Daily Objectives
 Continue to Read and Analyze Wharton’s Ethan
Frome
Essential Questions
 How much control do we have over the choices we




make?
Is truth relative? Explain.
To what extent does our environment shape who we
are as people?
Which is more important, the need of the individual
or the needs of the group?
When is it permissible to turn your back on or let go
of a responsibility?
Objectives
 Demonstrate knowledge of twentieth century
foundational works of American literature, including
how two or more texts from the same period treat
similar themes or topics.
 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support
analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as
inferences drawn from the text, including
determining where the texts leaves matters
uncertain.
After viewing the clip
 How did the clip enhance or detract your
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interpretation of the novel?
Go through the text and create a list of adjectives
used to describe the character. What patterns
emerge?
Zeena
Mattie
Ethan