March 21 A, D, E, H MAN OF ALL WORK

Aim: Elements of Foreshadowing: Why is important that Lucy says to  Henry and Tina looked the same when they were the same age?  Why is it important when Lucy scolds Henry to put on his robe and shoes?

Do Now:  How would you react if you woke up to find that all your friends and family had changed sex and gender.  Your friends who were girls are now boys.  Boys are now girls.    Who you thought was one race is now another or some combination.  You are the only one who remains as you were.

1. Why does Carl think nobody would detect that he is both male and Black? - What is he saying about society?
2. What kind of an impression does Carl aka Lucy make on the Fairchilds?
3. Who suspects Lucy isn't who she seems to be?
4. Does Mrs. Fairchild like Lucy?
5. Does Mr. Fairchild like Lucy?
6. What happened to Bertha?

J Band Croak

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Aim: Is Lex a protagonist or an antagonist?  Which qualities do we like about her and which ones do we oppose?  Explain?

Do Now?
1. Why would getting away for a summer help all high schoolers get a fresh start on the next year?
2. Is School might  an unnatural institution because it deprives students from doing things that are more natural than sitting in a classroom and following a bunch of school rules?  Does it harm students by depriving them of nature? 
3. In compensation for enduring 10 months of unnatural life, should schools be required to grant a summer in the country to each student?  Why?

Writing: Explain to the Mayor and the Chancellor, why experiencing nature should be included in the curriculum.  

EVERYBODY GETS ONE QUESTION
EVERYBODY LISTENS TO EVERYBODY'S ANSWERS
EVERYBODY TURNS IN RESPONSES TO ALL THE QUESTIONS - TO BE FAIR?
Questions for finding out more....
1. What does boredom have to do with Lex's propensity for violence? (12)
2. In what ways are Lex and Cordy different, yet never in conflict?
3. How does the narrator personify the Bartleby house (p13)
4. What was unusual about they way Lex's parents gave her the news about moving up to live with Uncle Mort for the summer? (14)
5. Why is there a pickle jar in the dining room? (14)
6. What does Mrs. Bartleby plan to use the money for?
7. What shows that Mrs. Bartleby loves the study of American History? (15)
8. Why did Lex think her parents had broken the rules? (16)
9. What does Mr. Bartleby's statement "I know" show about his character?
10. Why does Cordy feel Lex has betrayed her?

March 20 A Man of All Work Section One

Essential Questions: 
1. When there is a conflict between Man and Society, is it up to Society to change or up to Man to acclimate and adapt?
2. To survive in a racist and sexist society, it it up to the individual to compromise or to refuse to compromise until the society changes?

Aim: What is the big deal about the job Carl was applying for?  It's it's not a problem to him, why does Lucy think it's a problem?  What's  the risk?
Do Now: 
How much does it cost to be you in a week?
clothes:
food:
percentage of rent:
"cool" kid expenses: (iPhone, school supplies, breakfast sandwiches, etc.)

Extra: How many calories does is take to be you, for a day?
Where do those calories come from?
How much do those calories cost?

Writing: Dear Carl, or Dear Lucy
Write one or the other about how you are reacting to them.

Spontaneous Words of Wisdom Project

Each class, for class participation credit, you have the option of sharing out  a short piece of writing.  It can be related to life, what we are discussing in class or what you think we should be discussing in class.

It can be a poem, a story, or an idea you get from listening to the trains rolling passed the window in room 248.  Recipes are welcome.

Spontaneous words of wisdom project

On ______________________, I _______________________________ , while sitting in room  _____ during _____-Band, realized, got the idea, understood, began to figure out, wanted to share an insight, saw, heard, accomplished, had to say, wished I had said, wanted to react to something somebody said, thought about, daydreamed that, heard a song in my head about, figured out that, want to try …….

March 13 A-Band "Man of All Work" by Richard Wright

Aim: How does Carl show he is a responsible husband and father?

Do Now: 

1. Explain, in your own words, what the old adage, "Necessity is the mother of invention," means?  Can you give an example?

2. What is stress?

3. Why is it important to understand how we respond to stress?  

Responding to Stress

Watch the film.

After viewing the film, write down what you think the Rabbi's main idea is.

Do you agree or disagree?  

In class readings.  Copies are not for taking home.

1. Why did Lucy lose her job?

2. What might happen to Carl and Lucy and their children if Carl can't find a job?

3. What kind of experiences in the Army did Carl have that prepared him for the job he finds in the newspaper?

4. How did people find jobs at the time when the story is set?

5. What is Lucy worried about when she notices that Carl has left?

March 10 D, E, H, J One of These Days by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-2014)

Aim: How does Aurelio Escovar's son feel toward the mayor?

Do Now: 
1. How old should someone be in order to vote?
2. How would you react if the legal age to vote was changed to 21 and over?  
3. Like mandatory education, should the government require mandatory military service for two years after high school?
4. Would junior and high school students want to talk more or less about history and politics if the voting age was raised to 21?
5. Would children trust or distrust their parents if there was mandatory military service between 18-21 and the right to vote began at 21?


One of These Days

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-2014)
https://youtu.be/qM3L_Dg10Ss

Approximate Word Count: 994

Bilingual Text http://mgarci.aas.duke.edu/cibertextos/EDICIONES-BILINGUES/GARCIA-MARQUEZ-G/CUENTOS/UN-DIA-DE-ESTOS.HTM

Monday dawned warm and rainless. Aurelio Escovar, a dentist without a degree, and a very early riser, opened his office at six. He took some false teeth, still mounted in their plaster mold, out of the glass case and put on the table a fistful of instruments which he arranged in size order, as if they were on display. He wore a collarless striped shirt, closed at the neck with a golden stud, and pants held up by suspenders He was erect and skinny, with a look that rarely corresponded to the situation, the way deaf people have of looking.

When he had things arranged on the table, he pulled the drill toward the dental chair and sat down to polish the false teeth. He seemed not to be thinking about what he was doing, but worked steadily, pumping the drill with his feet, even when he didn't need it.

After eight he stopped for a while to look at the sky through the window, and he saw two pensive buzzards who were drying themselves in the sun on the ridgepole of the house next door. He went on working with the idea that before lunch it would rain again. The shrill voice of his elevenyear-old son interrupted his concentration.

"Papa."

"What?"

"The Mayor wants to know if you'll pull his tooth."

"Tell him I'm not here."

He was polishing a gold tooth. He held it at arm's length, and examined it with his eyes half closed. His son shouted again from the little waiting room.

"He says you are, too, because he can hear you."

The dentist kept examining the tooth. Only when he had put it on the table with the finished work did he say:

"So much the better."

He operated the drill again. He took several pieces of a bridge out of a cardboard box where he kept the things he still had to do and began to polish the gold.

"Papa."

"What?"

He still hadn't changed his expression.

"He says if you don't take out his tooth, he'll shoot you."

Without hurrying, with an extremely tranquil movement, he stopped pedaling the drill, pushed it away from the chair, and pulled the lower drawer of the table all the way out. There was a revolver. "O.K.," he said. "Tell him to come and shoot me."

He rolled the chair over opposite the door, his hand resting on the edge of the drawer. The Mayor appeared at the door. He had shaved the left side of his face, but the other side, swollen and in pain, had a five-day-old beard. The dentist saw many nights of desperation in his dull eyes. He closed the drawer with his fingertips and said softly:

"Sit down."

"Good morning," said the Mayor.

"Morning," said the dentist.

While the instruments were boiling, the Mayor leaned his skull on the headrest of the chair and felt better. His breath was icy. It was a poor office: an old wooden chair, the pedal drill, a glass case with ceramic bottles. Opposite the chair was a window with a shoulder-high cloth curtain. When he felt the dentist approach, the Mayor braced his heels and opened his mouth.

Aurelio Escovar turned his head toward the light. After inspecting the infected tooth, he closed the Mayor's jaw with a cautious pressure of his fingers.

"It has to be without anesthesia," he said.

"Why?"

"Because you have an abscess."

The Mayor looked him in the eye. "All right," he said, and tried to smile. The dentist did not return the smile. He brought the basin of sterilized instruments to the worktable and took them out of the water with a pair of cold tweezers, still without hurrying. Then he pushed the spittoon with the tip of his shoe, and went to wash his hands in the washbasin. He did all this without looking at the Mayor. But the Mayor didn't take his eyes off him.

It was a lower wisdom tooth. The dentist spread his feet and grasped the tooth with the hot forceps. The Mayor seized the arms of the chair, braced his feet with all his strength, and felt an icy void in his kidneys, but didn't make a sound. The dentist moved only his wrist. Without rancor, rather with a bitter tenderness, he said:

"Now you'll pay for our twenty dead men."

The Mayor felt the crunch of bones in his jaw, and his eyes filled with tears. But he didn't breathe until he felt the tooth come out. Then he saw it through his tears. It seemed so foreign to his pain that he failed to understand his torture of the five previous nights.

Bent over the spittoon, sweating, panting, he unbuttoned his tunic and reached for the handkerchief in his pants pocket. The dentist gave him a clean cloth.

"Dry your tears," he said.

The Mayor did. He was trembling. While the dentist washed his hands, he saw the crumbling ceiling and a dusty spider web with spider's eggs and dead insects. The dentist returned, drying his hands. "Go to bed," he said, "and gargle with salt water." The Mayor stood up, said goodbye with a casual military salute, and walked toward the door, stretching his legs, without buttoning up his tunic.

"Send the bill," he said.

"To you or the town?"

The Mayor didn't look at him. He closed the door and said through the screen:

"It's the same damn thing."

Worksheet:

Answer each question in complete sentences using your best English.

1. Who is the protagonist?
2. Who is the antagonist?
3. Describe the conflict.
4. What type of conflict is it? 
5. What is the narrative point of view?
6. Why did the dentist refuse to help the mayor at first? 
7. Why did or why didn't the dentist have any choice about treating the mayor?  Explain.
8. What reason did the dentist give for not using anesthesia?

Complete the following chart that helps describe the relationship between the dentist and the mayor and how they feel about each other.

Description of relationship-------------Evidence from story

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Why is the son mentioned in the story?  

1. Why does the dentist initially refuse to help the Mayor? What reasons can you provide as to why he changed his mind?

2. Establish the hierarchy of power that exists at the beginning of the story (NOTE: Hierarchy is defined as a system of people ranked in an order). Discuss the power shift that exists in the story, causing changes in the hierarchy. Be sure to explain how these changes or shifts occur.

3. In what way does the dentist get a chance to subtly get revenge on the mayor? In what way is this effective?

4. What does the mayor mean when he says at the end of the short story, “It’s the same damn thing."? How does it relate to the theme?

5. Based on your knowledge, what do you think the title of the short story means and why is it suitable for this story?

March 9 "The Zebra Storyteller"

Aim: What is the main feeling or idea you get from the story?

(What secret weapon does the Zebra Storyteller have that give him the edge to survive?)

Do Now: 
Before there was learning, how did humans prepare themselves for the future?
Are our imaginations as free nowadays and they were before we were forced to study history and science?  
Should our  imaginations be under control or should we let them to be a free as they can be?

f a b l e Spencer Holst Once upon a time there was a Siamese cat who pretended to be a lion and spoke inappropriate Zebraic. That language is whinnied by the race of striped horses in Africa. Here now: An innocent zebra is walking in a jungle, and approaching from another direction is the little cat; they meet. “Hello there!” says the Siamese cat in perfectly pronounced Zebraic. “It certainly is a pleasant day, isn’t it? The sun is shining, the birds are singing, isn’t the world a lovely place to live today!” The zebra is so astonished at hearing a Siamese cat speaking like a zebra, why, he’s just fit to be tied. So the little cat quickly ties him up, kills him, and drags the better parts of the carcass back to his den.  The cat successfully hunted zebras many months in this manner, dining on filet mignon of zebra every night, and from the better hides he made bow neckties and wide belts after the fashion of the decadent princes of the Old Siamese court. He began boasting to his friends he was a lion, and he gave them as proof the fact that he hunted zebras. The delicate noses of the zebras told them there was really no lion in the neighborhood. The zebra deaths caused many to avoid the region. Superstitious, they decided the woods were haunted by the ghost of a lion. One day the storyteller of the zebras was ambling, and through his mind ran plots for stories to amuse the other zebras, when suddenly his eyes brightened, and he said, “That’s it! I’ll tell a story about a Siamese cat who learns to speak our language! What an idea! That’ll make ’em laugh!” Just then the Siamese cat appeared before him, and said, “Hello there! Pleasant day today, isn’t it!” The zebra storyteller wasn’t fit to be tied at hearing a cat speaking his language, because he’d been thinking about that very thing. He took a good look at the cat, and he didn’t know why, but there was something about his looks he didn’t like, so he kicked him with a hoof and killed him. That is the function of the storyteller.