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Grapes of Wrath Vocabulary Quizlet Deck
bemuse, truculent, perplexity, dispossessed, conjecture, cantakerous, asail, restive, prodigal, exort, languid, disconsolate, ostracize, vehement
I'll give you 5 minutes to review before the quiz.
Homework: Read The Hemingway Code Hero (3 pages)
Notes of Code Hero:

Homework: Read Old Man in the Sea to page 67 (or more, if possible)
As you read, find a minimum of 7 examples of Hemingway's style. Cite the examples (page numbers)
We will work through the first 4 pages of the novel together, noting Hemingway's style.
I'll give you 25 minutes to read in class.
Homework: As you read, write down 3 examples from The Old Man and the Sea that show that Santiago (the old man) follows the pattern of Hemingway's Code Hero.

Take grammar pre-test.

Next week we will read the following article and write a short argumentative essay on it. 
Some of you might be interested in reading it this weekend; it's the kind of thing that's interesting to discuss with your family at the dinner table :)      :^o Is it Ethical to Euthanize Your Dog?
Write 1 1/2 pages as a group developing your argument.


If you were gone last week, here's the link to the Grapes of Wrath reading that you need to do:


 Between now and next Tue/Wed you will read pages 281-313 on Monday and Tue/Wed and have a quiz over that reading as well as a couple of questions from the movie. The entire novel is available at the following link:
The Grapes of Wrath