It's a Boy!

After the vocab quiz today, we discussed the reading.

If you were absent, you'll need to come in outside of class to make up the quiz. The following discussion work should be completed in your notebook:

For each of the following quotes, discuss:
a. the speaker and context
b. the underlying philosophy present in the statement.
c. whether or not you agree with the underlying philosophy
d. Write 2 statements—1) a description, and 2) a prediction—about the character based on the quote and its underlying philosophy. WRITE THE STATEMENTS IN YOUR NOTEBOOK ON A PAGE ENTITLED, “NECTAR EXPOSITION.”

1. “While the sun shines on you and the fields are green and beautiful to the eye, and your husband sees beauty in you which no one has seen before, and you have a good store of grain laid away for hard times, a roof over you and a sweet stirring in your body, what more can a woman ask for? (8).

2. “I have not lied to him, there has just been this silence” (22).

3. “It was business and nothing else with him, never a word of chaff or a smile—or perhaps it was the flattery I missed—and I would much rather have had it the other way; but there you are, you cannot choose” (23).

4. “Bend like the grass, that you do not break” (28).

5. “Yet I thought you would know better, who live by the land yet think of taking from it without giving” (32).

HW: Read pp. 35-70; Nectar Vocab on Edline--due next Tuesday