Freya'sday

TODAY: Sign up for poet. Choose one poem to share with the class on Friday. You will do the following:
1. Give us a bit of background to the poet and his or her work. Research.
2. Read the poem
3. Tell us what the poem means (either the standard interpretation or yours). 

Choose from the following list of poets:

T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, E.E. Cummings, Robert Frost, Harlem Renaissance poet; Sylvia Plath, Denise Levertov, Gwendolyn Brooks,, Billy Collins, or other contemporary poet

Final Exam: 
1.The Bean Trees; 
2. 50 Vocabulary--Norman Schur book 

50 Words for Final Exam taken from 1000 Most Important Words

Make a Quizlet deck with example sentences for the following words:

anathema, dichotomy, fulsome jejune, kowtow, panache, pedestrian, presage, quintessential, seamy, slake, sybarite, trenchant, vacuous

When you finish, share with my Quizlet Classroom
https://quizlet.com/class/7104063/

Here's an example: 50 Example Sentences for All 50 Words for Final
The Bean Trees

Reading Schedule. Be on the listed page for each of these dates:

May 14th  p. 46

May 16th  p. 71

May 18th  p. 102

May 21st  p. 146

May 23rd  p. 176

May 25th  p. 203

May 30th p. 254

June 1st p. 284

June 4th done

As  you read, find examples from the book that deal with the following three thematic topics:
(a total of three for each is fine if three different people are referred to)

The Quest--female version from 21st Century

1. When Missy leaves Pittman, she is on a journey to find who she really is. (page 16) "The second promise, the one that broke, had to do with where I would end up...And so what I promised myself is that I would drive west until my car stopped running, and there I would stay."
2.
3.

Equality

1. At the part of the book where she was looking for a job, she had expected the teacher to pick the girls who are rich enough to buy clothes or the other guy who were good at dissecting, however she was chosen only because she was the first one asked.
2.
3.  

Social Responsibility
1. She gets a job to not just support herself but also her mother
2.She takes in the Cherokee child
3. When she stops at the hotel she offers to work off whatever she can't pay off with money

Is Taylor Greer someone you might choose as a friend?

CHARACTERIZATION
TAYLOR

What kind of person is she? Find two sentences that reveal her character.

(Funny, kind, independent, interesting, smart, etc.) 

Funny

1."You ever heard of a Polaroid memory?" 

2.

Kind

1. "So I'm not going to beat around the bush. I've got a big problem, I cant really afford to pay for a room and i wouldn't even bother you except I've got a child..." pg 29 - She doesn't make up a random story, instead she just tells the truth for the sake of the lady at the counter not herself

2.

Independent

1.

2.

Interesting

1.

2.

Other

1. "I could never figure out why men thought they could impress a woman by making the world out to be such a big dangerous deal. I mean, we've got to live in the exact same world every damn day of the week, don't we?"

2.

LOU ANN
Insecure

Caring

Family centered