Fall '11--Week 3

Mon 9/10--Please read and take notes on "Free Fruit for Young Widows." This is a handout. Please mark the paper copy. If you were absent from class, then read the story online at: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/05/17/100517fi_fiction_englander?currentPage=all

Tuesday 9/11--Topic sentence and quotation assignment on "Free Fruit." https://sites.google.com/a/thecollegepreparatoryschool.org/dr-anderson/english-1-3/assignments-1/fall-11--week-3/due-tuesday-sept-20th

Wednesday 9/12--Read and take notes on "Cell One" in your reader. Additional copy of the story to be found here: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2007/01/29/070129fi_fiction_adichie

Some questions to consider as you do the reading:

*** What are the themes or topics of this story?

• What is the narrator's relationship with her brother like before, during, and after his incarceration?

• Contrast Nnamabia's attitude in prison before and after he begins to witness the guards' treatment of the old man.

• Despite his faults, how is Nnamabia a sympathetic character?

• Whose story is this, Nnamabia's or his sister's? Explain your response?

Thursday 9/13--Paragraph assignment due on "Cell One." https://sites.google.com/a/thecollegepreparatoryschool.org/dr-anderson/english-1-3/assignments-1/fall-11--week-3/9-23---cell-one-paragraph

Friday 9/14--Vocab quiz #2 of Vocabulary Energizers. Also, read about verbs in the pink Grammar Workbook, pp. 9-12. We'll do exercises on pp. 13-15 in class. Bring only the pink workbook with you.