1. September 14, 2015

2. While you test Focus on your test. Take your time! Do your best. After you test Bring your test to me. Be respectful of those still testing! Start the assignments posted on the board.

4. Grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in Africa British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 Doris Lessing: A Retrospective http://www.dorislessing.org/index.html http://www.dorislessing.org/index.html

5. Stands for something beyond itself May be person, place, object, or activity

6. When a certain setting symbolizes important ideas Settings help characterize people in the story

8. Definition: A struggle between opposing forces Internal Conflict – the conflict is within the character Man against himself External Conflict – a character is pitted against an outside force Man against man Man against nature Left Side Option: Identify (page number and description) external and internal conflicts Jerry and his mom face.

9. Think of a time when you felt you had something to prove. Briefly retell the story. WHY did you want to do it? What did you do to prepare for it? In the end, was it worth it? WHAT did you gain/lose? HOW did you, your peers/opponents, parents react? Elaborate in a journal of five or more descriptive sentences.

10. LEFT SIDE OPTION: Draw this image in your notebook. Then, fill in the shapes with your own personal experience. LEFT SIDE OPTION: Draw this image in your notebook. Then, fill in the shapes with your own personal experience.

12. 1.contrition 2.incredulous 3.inquisitive 4.persistence 5.promontory 6.supplication

13. contrition – a feeling of regret for doing wrong promontory – a high ridge of land or rock jutting out into a body of water

14. Supplication – humble request or prayer Incredulous – doubtful; disbelieving