REGENTS REVIEW AFTER SCHOOL TODAY IN MR.WILSON"S ROOM 247
100 bonus points
Also, remember that if you are on the detention list, you must complete your obligation by Thursday; otherwise, your name will be forwarded to Ms. Aspenleiter.
REGENTS EXAM: Monday, January 27- pm session
Tuesday, January 21- matching test on the literary terms. Although this will be on only 20, you do not know which ones. Make sure to bring the list with you to class each day, as you will be applying the terms to our review work. If you lose your copy, go to Monday, Jan 20 blog.
In class today: you should have finished a first reading of Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country.
Before we review the terms that were unfamiliar to you, reread those sentences and come up with a definition based upon the context.
Second reading of text: please reread the story, responding to the following questions, incorporating text-basted evidence. This is due at the close of class on Wednesday. Take your time, being mindful of grammar, punctuation and spelling. Most of the questions require deep thinking. class handout / copy below
Name _____________________________________________
“In Another Country”
by Ernest Hemingway
study guide questions. Please respond to the following with a text-based
response, weaving the evidence into your own sentences. Note that some of the
questions refer to literary terms. Use your handout as a reference.
1.
Write out the simile used in the opening
sentence of the short story.
________________________________________________________________________________
2.
Give two implications that the narrator is
making through this statement.
a.
____________________________________________________________________________
b.
____________________________________________________________________________
3.
How had the major injured his hand, and what was
his attitude towards the machine being able to rehabilitate the damage?
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
4.
There were sometimes five who “walked back
together through the communist quarter to the Café Cova.” Who were these soldiers?
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
5.
What is ironic about the situation of the boy
who had gone to the military academy?
(Do not simply talk about the missing nose.)
________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
6.
Explain this observation made by the narrator: “We
only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.”
_______________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
7.
Describe the setting at the Cova and why the men
particularly felt comfortable here.
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
8.
The narrator believed that Italian was “an easy
language”, until he took up “the use of grammar.” What is the deeper meaning behind these
words?
_____________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
9.
The major tells the narrator that “he cannot
marry….he should find things he cannot lose.”
This is both a personal statement from the major, as well as a more
philosophical observation. Explain both.
_________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
10.
How had the major’s wife died?
_______________________________________________________________________________
11.
The narrator observes when “the electric lights
came on…it was pleasant along the streets looking in the windows.” He
also notes that “every afternoon [they] were all very polite and interested …and sat watching the machines that were to
make so much difference. ”What role does technology play in the soldier’s lives?
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
No comments:
Post a Comment