There is a vocabulary quiz on Tuesday.
In class today, students completed a response assignment by choosing five of the following questions on a separate sheet of lined paper:
Develop ideas with examples from the novel.
In class today, students completed a response assignment by choosing five of the following questions on a separate sheet of lined paper:
Develop ideas with examples from the novel.
- How do you think Toby found out that Dwight held a knife to his mother’s throat?
- Describe Rosemary’s reactions to Toby’s father on the phone.Why do you think they’re not together?
- Explain how Toby’s fantasy helps him lie on the private school application and letters of recommendation.[“They wrote plainly about a gifted, upright boy…it seemed to me I saw, at last, my own face.”]
- Why was it inconceivable to refuse to fight in Mr. Mitchell’s smoker?
- On pages 220-221, when the fight is described, how is Toby like Dwight?
- How do you think Mr. Howard would describe Toby after interviewing him in Concrete?
- “I hear his voice in my own when I speak to my children in anger” (232).Look back at this section. Using Dwight and Toby as examples, explain how hate can be infectious. Then, make any personal connections you might have to this notion.