Week 2
Class Ground Rules
Read all the assignments before class.
Keep yourself on mute unless called on.
Raise your hands electronically.
Focus your comments only on the question at hand rather than straying to other parts of the story.
Refrain from offering a review of the whole story or jumping to the end.
Try to support your comments by referring to details from the text.
Listen to and respond to others with respect.
READ (at least twice): Nancy Hale – “To the North,” (from Where the Light Falls, pp. 28-51).
A young boy's life is shaped by his summers among the Finns in a seaside community.
Think About:
Graniteside for the Finns who lived there all year.
Graniteside for the summer people.
Who is Jack? Why does he spend so much time with the Finns?
Jack's encounter with Leonora.
Jack's interaction with Alexandra at Graniteside.
What happens when Jack and Alexandra meet again at the hospital in New York?
The recurrence of the word crescendo and its meaning for Jack.
One feature of Hale's style is rich descriptions. Did any stand out for you?
Purely Optional - Learn About the Cape Ann Finns
Located about 30 miles northeast of Boston, Cape Ann includes the town of Rockport and city of Gloucester. The area was a fishing and shipping port, and became known in the 1830s for its high quality granite; the stone was mainly cut into paving blocks.
Finnish immigrants began to arrive at Cape Ann in large numbers in the 1870s, and worked the granite quarries until the Depression and popularity of concrete doomed the industry. They had an active and thriving community, and between the 1920s and 1940s there were about 5,000 people of Finnish descent living on Cape Ann.
http://finnishfood.blogspot.com/2007/10/some-historical-research.html
The Hale Studio at Folly Cove on Cape Ann
