Students are to
check their portfolios. I have placed the assignment for today and tomorrow in
their (an instruction sheet and the poem “An Old Man’s Winter Night.”
They will also need 11x17 paper and pencil crayons (on my table to the left of my desk).
Here is the assignment:
The Bear
Part Two: Pages 79 – 202 Reading Questions
INSTRUCTIONS: These are
reading questions. They are meant to help you understand the material and to be
able to participate in the discussion. Your exams are based on your
understanding of the text, which ties into these questions. I will provide a
completion mark for each section. Be as detailed as you feel you need to in
order to retain information for essays/exams. Do these on a separate sheet.
Chapter 10 (pages 79-88)
1.
What is the
significance of Jessica in relation to the narrator?
2. From the expository in this chapter, describe the
narrator’s mom in literal terms.
3. What is Stick’s most important need while on the boat?
4. Why is it important for STICK that the narrator uses a
“momma voice” at times?
5. Why is Gwen so important to the narrator?
6. According to Freud, our personalities are made up of
three parts: The Id, The Ego, and the Superego. In this chapter, what does the
narrator do that she normally wouldn’t as the Superego is no longer in charge? (wipe her snot on her sleave)
7.
What are Stick’s
needs when he’s off the boat? How do you know this? (security: holdingnna’s
hands)
8. Why is the beaver “mad” at the kids?
9. What act of empathy does Anna show towards her brother
in relation to the beaver?
10. What realization does Anna come to at the end of this
chapter?
11. In novels, a conflict arises and then rising action
occurs (think of smaller moments of either coming closer to reaching or further
from reaching a goal). In this chapter, what is the rising action that could
have led to a failure to attain a positive outcome?
Chapter 11(pages
89 – 102)
1.
Anna shows
empathy for her doll, but at this point, she does not show much to her brother.
Why is this?
2. What time of the day is it? How do you know this?
3. Is Anna an introvert
or extrovert? How do you know this?
4. Stream of consciousness writing is when a person
writes what they are thinking regardless of the thought. Anna engages in this.
Describe one scene in which she gets away from what is actually going on and
instead engages in stream of consciousness thought.
5. In this chapter, the children seem happy. Why is this?
How does it tie to the idea of the Superego?
6. What is it about Barbie that concerns some parents?
7.
Read the
following sentence: “I am bored I don’t know what we should do.”
What is wrong with this sentence? What are three different things you
could do to fix it?
8.
Read the
following sentence: “I need a leash and a piece of grass is long enough but it
is hard to tie around the dog’s neck and my fingers won’t.” What is wrong with
this sentence? How can it be fixed?
Chapter 12
(pages 103 – 108)
1.
How is the sun
sneakier than Jessica?
2.
What rising
action in this chapter threatens to make the children less secure?
Chapter 13
(pages 109 – 121)
1.
How are the
children adapting to their environment and trying to meet their needs?
2.
Why is it that
Anna cannot let Stick be right on factual issues?
Chapter 14
(pages 122 – 129)
1.
In this chapter,
Anna locates some berries and leaves that remind her of mint. Based on the
description, what could they be?
2. When it comes to the Id, ones desires can be so strong
that a person will not think of the impact of actions on others. How is Anna
fighting her own Id in order to help her brother?
3.
In this chapter,
there is a comment about how some of Stick’s actions might be “The sort of
thing that might make daddy go away.” Some earlier comments like this also
appear. If this is foreshadowing, what might it mean in Anna’s mind?
Chapter 15 (pages 130 – 135)
1.
How much time
has passed since the kids were put in the Coleman?
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