Happy Tuesday! Have out a pen and a grading pen.

1. Happy Wednesday! Have out a pen and a grading pen.Bring your literature book.

2. Happy Tuesday!Have out a pen and a grading pen.

3. FRIDAY HOMEWORK IS… CANCELLED!!!

4. “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant

5. Author: Guy de Maupassant • One of the most famous French short story writers • Rejects the Christian ideal of hope • Focused on the middle classes in his writing • Themes speak against covetousness and lying

6. Plot Structure • Exposition: meet Mathilde • pretty, charming, discontent • born into a clerk’s family • daydreams constantly of being rich • Inciting moment: M. Loisel brings home the invitation to the ball.

8. Plot Structure • Rising Action: the events of the reception and the loss of the necklace • Crisis: The Loisels lie to Mme. Forestier. • Falling Action: The Loisels work to pay off their debts. • Mme. Loisel: cooks, washes, and shops • M. Loisel: balances accounts, copies documents, etc.

9. Plot Structure • Final moment of suspense: Mathilde finally talks to Mme. Forestier. • Denouement: “Why at most it was worth only five hundred francs!”

10. Conflicts • Mathilde vs. Mme. Forestier • Loisels vs. themselves (decision to lie and the consequences that followed)

11. Theme The honest course of action, even if it leads to uncomfortable consequences, is always the best.

12. Note of Gratitude *Please write a simple, anonymous note of appreciation to another student by Thursday morning. I will just ask you if you have accomplished this task when we meet tomorrow.

13. THE POSSIBILITY OF EVIL by Shirley Jackson

14. Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) • Famous for gothic horror and psychological suspense • Wrote “The Lottery” and other novels

15. Miss Strangeworth’s TwoMain Ideas: • People are full of possible evil. • She has the responsibility to eradicate the evil of the people in her town.

16. There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Romans 3:11–12

17. Miss Strangeworth’s Problem = misapplication of truth

18. Roses = Symbol of Miss Strangeworth’s position Unshared Limited existence Inherited Lost

19. Plot Twist a plot development that violates the reader’s expectation (Miss Strangeworth is not a nice, little old lady.)

20. Plot Structure: Exposition: meet Miss S. Inciting Moment: the first evil letter Rising Action: many evil letters

21. Plot Structure: Crisis: drops the Crane letter Falling Action: Dave will deliver the letter. Moment of Final Suspense: Miss S. receives a green letter. Denouement: Miss S’s flowers have been destroyed=revenge!

22. Disturbing Irony: Miss Strangeworth is obsessed with outward perfection, while she disregards her own inward evil.

23. Miss Strangeworth’s misconceptions are formed by . . . • being alone. • being idle. • being respected for her family name.

24. And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. 1 Timothy 5:13–14

25. Poetic Justice: Destruction of roses in the same manner that Miss Strangeworth has destroyed with her letters

26. Theme Those who look for evil can always find it, though more often in others instead of in themselves.

27. Avoid Blindness: think biblically

28. Note of Gratitude *Please write a simple, anonymous note of appreciation to another student by Thursday morning. I will just ask you if you have accomplished this task when we meet tomorrow.

29. For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? 1 Corinthians 4:7

30. For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. Romans 12:3

31. Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Galatians 6:1

32. “In the Ring with Jack Dempsey”by Paul Gallico

33. Author: Paul Gallico (1894-1976) • sports fan and gym instructor • sports editor for New York Daily News • fencing master for the French army • famous for his observance of minute detail and careful study of people

35. Character: Jack Dempsey (1895-1983) • one of eleven children • learned to fight for survival • one of America’s first great sports heroes • heavyweight champion of the world from 1919-1926

41. Terms • cub sportswriter=beginning • sudden checking=stopping • locomotor control=moving about independently • sag a spar boy=to sink • columbia eight-oared shell=racing rowboat • for tuition=instruction, teaching • those little lovetaps=hits!

42. Essay Notes: • conflict: man vs. man • theme: • You learn by doing. • Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked in his shoes. • Two comparisons to boxing: • It is like being stalked by a professional destroyer. • It is like a soldier who never hears the bullet that kills him.

43. Plot Structure • Exposition: Gallico’s view of fighting • Inciting moment: He asks Dempsey to box a round. • Rising action: Gallico’s impressions of the fight • Crisis: Dempsey’s manager gives him the ten count. • Falling Action: Clearing his head from the fight • Denouement: His attitude towards fighting has changed.