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Assignments 2-5, Quiz 1, Quiz 2, Quiz 3 Reading Assignment: pages 1-91
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Cycle 2 Quiz #1 (pages 1-31) (THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER) Write your answers in complete sentences on loose leaf. Each correctly answered question is worth 20 points. The bonus points for question six depend upon your answering questions 1-5 correctly and the quality of your responses. 1. Provide a brief description of Antonapoulos and Singer. 2. What arrangements did Charles Parker make for Antonapoulos? 3. Why does Alice feel that Biff ought not to return Jake Blount’s suitcase to him? 4. After Jake Blount and Mr. Singer leave, Biff dozes off. Who wakes him and why? 5. What does Mr. Singer do to help Jake Blount? 6. Bonus question: In a well developed paragraph, explain why is it ironic that Alice teaches Sunday School? Assignment 2/15 (THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER) Journal Question 2: What is music? Is music a kind of language? How many different kinds of music can you name? Do you ever listen to music that doesn’t have words? What is the difference between instrumental music and music with words? Does music need words in order to communicate? How does music help us to feel free and daydream? Reading Assignment: Chapters 2 - 3: Reading Comprehension Assignment: 1. In Chapter 2 Jake Blount says, “While this truth is so obvious it’s a miracle of all history that people don’t know.” What truth is it that Jake speaking about? 2. Who is Willie? 3. Who are Ralph and Bubber? 4. Why does Mick climb up to the roof of the unfinished house? 5. Who are Hazel and Etta and what do they say to upset Mick? 6. Who is Bill and what does he say to Mick that upsets her? 7. Who is Portia? 8. Who is Portia’s father? 9. Who is Highboy? 10. More than anything, what does Mick seem to really want? Quiz #2 (Open Book and you may work in groups) Situation: Mick’s very first words in the novel are those she speaks to Biff Brannon on page 16: “No, I don’t belong to them.” Task: Write an essay that explains what Mick means by summarizing specific examples. Paragraph 1: Introduction: Define and explain the meaning and the importance of having a sense of belonging. Does everyone have a sense of belonging? (Examples might include, but are not limited to belonging to a group? a family? a neighborhood? a religion? an economic class? a political party? a club? a school? a race? a country? a profession?). Paragraph 2: Summarize Mick’s experiences on pages 31-33 and show how they support Mick’s first words “No, I don’t belong to them.” on page 16. Paragraph 3: Summarize Mick’s experiences on pages 38-40 and show how they support Mick’s first words “No, I don’t belong to them.” on page 16. Paragraph 4: Summarize Mick’s experiences on pages 42-43 and show how they support Mick’s first words “No, I don’t belong to them.” on page 16. Paragraph 5: Conclusion: Summarize your definition of the feeling of belonging from paragraph 1. List the examples you summarized in paragraphs 2,3, and 4. State how the examples show that Mick does not have the feeling that she belongs. Assignment 4/15 (THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER) Journal Question 4: What is the difference between being responsible and feeling responsible? What does it mean to care? Do people naturally care about those for whom they feel responsible? For example, is caring a right and a privilege that is allowed only to those who know what it means to be responsible? Can there be real caring if there is no sense of responsibility? How do people react when a person, for whom they feel both caring and responsibility, behaves ignorantly, irresponsibly, and does not care in return? Reading Assignment: Chapter 5 (pages 67-91) Reading Comprehension Assignment: 1. Both Dr. Copeland and Jake Blount are trying to cure people of illness and trying to get people the care for themselves more responsibily. Write 2 lists: On one side, the things Dr. Copeland does to achieve his aim; on the other, the things Jake Blount does to achieve his aim. 2. What was the scam Portia was telling Dr. Copeland about? 3. Why isn’t Dr. Copeland surprised by Portia’s tale of how the Black people in the town were victims of a scam? 4. List specific examples from Dr. Copeland’s experiences that cause him to feel angry and bitter. 5. Why can’t Jake Blount and Dr. Copeland seem to get along with anyone, yet, why don’t they just give up trying to help them? Quiz #3 THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER Copy each quotation onto loose leaf. Write a brief explanation of the quotation that includes as much as possible of the Who, the To Whom, the What, the Where, the When, and the Why information. Conclude your answer with a comment about how the quotation or statement contributes to the reader’s interest in the specific character and in the story as a whole. 1. “A person can’t pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be. Whether it hurt them or not. Whether it right or wrong.” (Search hint: pages 73-76) 2. “All his life he knew that there was a reason for his working. He always knew that he was meant to teach his people. All day he would go with his bag from house to house and on all things he would talk to them.” (Search hint: pages 69-72) 3. “He left the door of his room open and on the table in an envelope addressed to Mrs. Kelly were four dollars for the past week’s rent. His few simple possessions were gone and the room was very clean and bare. When his visitors came and saw this empty room they went away with hurt surprise. No one could imagine why he had left like this.” (Search hint: pages 87-91) 4. “But what I am getting at is this. When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?” (Search 65-67) 5. “The bastards who own these mills are millionaires. While the doffers and carders and all the people behind the machines who spin and weave the cloth can’t hardly make enough to keep their guts quite. See? So when you walk around the streets and think about it and see hungry, worn-out people and ricket-legged younguns, don’t it make you mad? Don’t it?” (Search 62-65) |