Pre-AP: Things for Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the drop-dead deadline for IWA #3. Find the prompt and details on formatting here. You've known about this since Nov. 16th, 2010. If you have questions, ask them before 10:30 tonight. If you need me to print your IWA for you, it must already be properly formatted; I won't fix it for you this time.

For tomorrow's 6-Week Exam, you should know:

• Definitions of Christmas Carol vocabulary


• Literary Terms from this semester


• Tolstoy's use of literary devices in "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"

The vocabulary and story questions will be multiple choice. You must be able to define the literary term and provide a creative example in Section II of the test. (Using or modifying the examples I have provided takes no creativity and will not result in receipt of credit.)

English II: "How Much Land..." Study Questions

After you've finished reading Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need," complete these study questions (in the online story Pakhom is spelled Pahom; same guy, though):

Section I:
1. How does the younger sister react to hearing how her older sister lives?

2. What did Pakhom say or do that led the Devil to form an evil plan?

3. What is the Devil’s plan for Pakhom?


Section II:
4. In what ways did Pakhom receive fines from the landowner?

5. How much land did Pakhom buy, and what was the agreement he made with the landowner to pay it off?

6. What did Pakhom mean at the end of this section, when he said that his land seemed “quite different” to him, as compared to before?


Section III:
7. How did his neighbors eventually come to feel about Pakhom’s “lessons”?

8. What did Pakhom accuse Simon of in court? What was the outcome of the trial?

9. What was Pakhom doing in the last paragraph of Section III?


Section IV:
10. How was Pakhom’s life in his new home, compared to his old one?

11. After a while living on the land, how did Pakhom begin to feel about his situation?

12. What is Pakhom tempted with at the end of Section IV?

13. What does “virgin soil” mean?


Section V:
14. The Bashkirs are different from the Russians. Identify at least 3 ways they are different.

15. What did Pakhom ask for, and what reasons did he give for wanting it?

16. What was the Bashkirs’ answer to Pakhom’s request?

17. At the end of this section, what are the Bashkirs arguing about?


Section VI:
18. What was the price for the Bashkirs’ land?

19. How will the Bashkirs determine what portion of land belongs to Pakhom?


Section VII:
20. How much land does Pakhom think he can get? What are his plans for this land?

21. Describe Pakhom’s dream.


Section VIII:
22. Why doesn’t Pakhom always turn when he should?

23. What is Pakhom worried about at the end of Section VIII?


Section IX:
24. Even when Pakhom is struggling, why does he not stop running?

25. What is ironic about the line “Six feet from his head to his toes was all he needed”?

26. Now that you have finished the story, what is ironic about when Pakhom says, “An hour to suffer, a lifetime to live,” in Section VIII?

English II: "How Much Land..." Vocabulary

Write meaningful sentences using the following vocabulary words:

• Arable
• Communal
• Discord
• Disparage
• Forbear
• Homestead
• Prostrate
• Steppes

Remember:

• a meaningful sentence is made up of two independent sentences combined with a semicolon (;)


• the first sentence includes a vocabulary word


• the second sentence contains the definition of that vocabulary word


• the first word of the second sentence is not capitalized


• you should underline the vocabulary word and its definition

For instance, if the vocabulary word was:

Kumiss (n): a liquor made from fermented mare's or camel's milk

a meaningful sentence would be:

My friend Boris offered me a sip of his kumiss; I didn't want to drink alcoholic milk so I had apple juice instead.

Assignment due: Thursday, December 16th, 2010.

English II: "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" Pre-Reading

Answer the following questions in complete sentences:

1. How important is money? Give two reasons why.


2. What are other definitions of wealth? Provide three examples.


3. What is the best definition of wealth? Why?