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HW# Study the WOD vocabulary (spelling and definition)

01/07

Aim: To discuss the short story "Cop and Anthem"

• HW# 46 Discuss and answer the following questions:
  1. What indications in the text remind Soapy that it was almost winter?(20%)
     • The wild geese flying south
     • Women who don't have a fur coat hugging their husbands tighter
     • The leaves are falling
  2. What was Soapy's  "hibernatorial ambition"? Where was he planning to go to avoid the cold winter in New York?
  3. What did Soapy do to try to get himself arrested? Describe each incident briefly and its result (How did he get out of each trouble)?
     • Broke a store window and told the cop he did it but the cop didn't believe him.
     • Ate at a restaurant and didn't pay the bill but the restaurant manager didn't call the cop, instead, he made Soapy wash the dishes.
     • Blatantly stole a man's umbrella in a cigar store but the gentleman claimed he took the umbrella from someone else who might just be Soapy
     • Harassed a woman in a park but it turned out the woman was a prostitute
     • Disturbed the welkin by  "disorderly conduct in front of a theater " - yelling drunken gibberish, dancing, howling and raving; but the cop thought he was a Yale lad who was celebrating.
  4. Why didn't Soapy want to live on charity?
     • Soapy felt he had his pride and was not willing to trade his private and personal information to get a loaf of bread.
     • Soapy believed the law was more benign( nicer ) than Philanthropy( charity).
  5. What did Soapy do to try to get himself arrested by "disorderly conduct"?
     • yelling drunken gibberish, dancing, howling and raving; but the cop thought he was a Yale lad who was celebrating.
  6. What came to his mind when he heard the church organ playing?
     • The anthem made him remember the days when he still had his mothers, roses( romance), ambitions( dreams), friends and  pure thoughts.
  7. What changes did the sweet church organ notes bring to Soapy and how did his heart respond to it?
     • Soapy started seeing the true color of his life ("He viewed with swift horror the pit into which he had tumbled)- his fallen life that consisted only of degraded days, unworthy desires, dead hopes and low motives( tried so hard to break the law and get caught).
  8. What was Soapy like when he was younger?
  9. What did Soapy resolve to do the moment before he got arrested?
     • Soapy felt for a moment the excitement of his new mood and he wanted to battle his desperate fate. He would like to pursue his old ambitions and the next day he'd go and get work as a driver and maybe he'd be somebody in the world.
  10. What would happen to Soapy now as story ended in such an ironic way?
  11. (Bonus) What could have made him the way he was as described in the story?

01/08

JA Program

01/09

• Vocabulary Quiz#6
• Answer

01/10

Period 6-JA Program

Period 7 & 8-Test on Cop and Anthem

Extra credit work #1:Write an essay on how Langston Hughes  has impacted the society. The short essay should include:

• Describe the problem in American society that Langston Hughes  tried to change.
• Discuss an important contribution made by Ford to address the problem
• Evaluate the impact of the contribution on American life.

Extra credit work #2 Read about Eleanor Roosevelt and her impact on the society. Write an essay on how Eleanor Roosevelt  has impacted the society. The short essay should include:

• Describe the problem in American society that Eleanor Roosevelt tried to change.
• Discuss an important contribution made by Eleanor Roosevelt to address the problem
• Evaluate the impact of the contribution on American life.

Extra credit work # 3 Read about Upton Sinclair and his impact on the society. (link 2) Write an essay on how Sinclair has impacted the society. The short essay should include:

• Describe the problem in American society that Sinclair tried to change.
• Discuss an important contribution made by Sinclair to address the problem
• Evaluate the impact of the contribution on American life.

Extra credit work # 4 Read about Henry Ford and his impact on the society. Write an essay on how Henry Ford has impacted the society. The short essay should include:

• Describe the problem in American society that Ford tried to change.
• Discuss an important contribution made by Ford to address the problem
• Evaluate the impact of the contribution on American life.

Read about Martin Luther King Jr and his impact on the society (link 2)

Extra credit work #5 Write an essay on how Martin Luther King Jr  has impacted the society. The short essay should include:

• Describe the problem in American society that Martin Luther King Jr tried to change.
• Discuss an important contribution made by Martin Luther King Jr to address the problem
• Evaluate the impact of the contribution on American life.

 

01/11

Period 6-Test on The Cop and the Anthem

Period 7 & 8: JA Program

01/14

Activities:

1. Read the short story "The Whisperers" by James Baldwin

2. Read the short play An Encounter With An Interviewer by Mark Twain

3. Assign the date for notebook check(1/15. 1/16, 1/17)

01/15

Last session of JA Program

01/16

To read and discuss the short story THE LAD WHO RODE SIDESADDLE by James Baldwin

Miss Civilization: A Comedy in One Act by Richard Harding Davis

 

01/17

Final exam

01/18

Review and reflect