HN English 10 - "The Word Shaker" Focus & Vocab Reminder

A quick change: Finish The Book Thief (Parts 9-Epilogue) for Monday.  Your motif notecards (the chosen image you should have been tracking through the WHOLE novel) will still be due on Wednesday.

Study for your vocabulary quiz.

Finish your bibliography for your mini-research project-- you received copies of the following handouts in class that should guide your bibliography:

1. Basic information about MLA formatting (link to handout in previous text)
2. Basic information about MLA bibliographies (link to handout in previous text)
3. Sample Bibliography (link to handout in previous text)-- Make yours look like this, formatting-wise! 

Due PRINTED at the beginning of class tomorrow.

You should re-read "The Word Shaker" tonight and provide answers to the following questions (not necessarily complete sentences or entire paragraphs, but something detailed enough that if I so chose, I could collect and give you credit for the thoroughness of your answers):

1.     Look up the definitions of “fable” and “fairy tale.”  Why does Liesel have such a difficult time deciding which category this story fits into?

2.     How does Max characterize Hitler in this story?  In reality, how does Hitler’s rise to power seem almost like a fable/fairy tale? 

3.     What does the term “word shaker” mean?  Who are these people in the real Nazi regime?

4.     Why does the tree hold strong despite the repeated attacks?  (Literally and figuratively.)

5.     Literally: Why does the tree fall at the end?  Figuratively: What is this saying about the nature of the seed from which the tree came (friendship)?