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Name ________________________ Class ______ Date _________ Score ____________ LA 10 Reading Comprehension Modern and Contemporary Literature 1990 - Directions: Read pages 1053 - 1076 Use complete sentences with proper grammar to answer the following items. WK 32 1. What are the three most interesting things about the life of R. K. Narayan? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. …from “An Astrologer’s Day,” why has the astrologer chosen the spot under the tamarind tree to conduct business? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Summarize the types of advice the astrologer gives. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Why is his advice take by his customers? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. What advice does the astrologer give to Guru Nayak? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Throughout the story, Narayan plants clues about secrets in the astrologer’s past. What are the clues? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. What predictions can you make based on them? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. How does the astrologer use his knowledge of basic human psychology to tell people’s fortunes? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. When does the astrologer first glimpse the face of the stranger who appears at the end of the day and why does the astrologer feel uncomfortable at this point? How does he reveal his discomfort? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. Why does the astrologer first offer to give the man back his money and then press him for more money? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 11. Why is the astrologer’s later statement that Guru Nayak cheated him ironic? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 12. Summarize the conflict that occurred between the astrologer and Guru Nayak when they were young men What internal conflict do you think the astrologer is experiencing in this story? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 13. Is the astrologer a clever hero or a devious tricker? Or BOTH? Explain your answer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 14. What are the three most important events in the life of Zhang Jie? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 15. …from “Love Must Not Be Forgotten,” How does the narrator feel about her suitor, Qiao Lin? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. What are her feelings about marriage in general? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 17. In the story… what private information is revealed? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 18. How does the narrator’s mother feel about her own marriage? Why couldn’t she marry the man she loved? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 19. When did the mother’s beloved die and what happened afterward? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 20. Describe the relationship between the narrator and her mother. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 21. How does this understanding affect the narrator’s viewpoint? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 22. What do the flashbacks involving the man the mother loved reveal about the kind of person he was and the reasons why the mother love him? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 23. Do you think the social pressures regarding marriage experienced by the narrator and her mother in Communist China exist to some degree for women in American / Korea today? Explain. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 24. … from “Quang Binh,” according to lines 1 – 5, what is the setting in which the speaker finds herself? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 25. Describe the atmosphere and mood suggested by this setting in the first stanza? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 26. What realization suddenly grips the speaker in lines 6 – 9? Why do you think this realization comes as such a surprise to the speaker? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 27. Whom does the speaker directly address in lines 14 – 18? According to the speaker, what happened to this person? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 28. What elements or details in the fifth stanza, lines 19 – 22, contain parallels to elements or details in the fourth stanza? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 29. What is the effect of this parallelism? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 30. In the longest stanza, lines 23 – 37, the poet uses a number of sensory details that help convey a vivid description. Identify some of these details, and then explain how they contrast with other details that evoke a context of warfare. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 31. In lines 38 – 41, how does the speaker contrast the present with the past? What is the effect? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 32. How does the poem’s concluding stanza echo the opening stanza? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 33. What “moment” of illumination does the speaker experience at the end of the poem? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 34. Y’Nhi uses number of specific place names in this poem. Even though a reader might be unfamiliar with these places, what is the emotional effect of this technique? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 35. WRITING Exercise # 1: Write an essay about the way this poem made you feel about war. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ WRITING Exercise # 2: In the form of a diary entry, write a paragraph about your views of love, marriage, independence, or one of the other related issues that Zhang Jie addresses in her story. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ WRITING Exercise # 3: Write a paragraph alternate ending to the story about the astrologer. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Name ________________________ Class ______ LA 10 Vocabulary Development & Collaboration Date _________ Score ____________ Modern and Contemporary Literature 1990 - Wk 32 Collaborative / PROJECT BASED LEARNING Activity: Directions: 1. Read “An Astrologer’s Day”, “Love Must Not Be Forgotten,” and “Quang Binh” (textbook pages 1053 - 1076 ) 2. Locate the important terms/vocabulary in all of the passages listed above. Some are identified… but you need to add more for at least 16! 3. Create a power point presentation (minimum 16 slides) where you … (a.) Write the sentence from the text using the word. (b.) Give the “official” definition of the term. (c.) Provide a synonym & an antonym for the term. (d.) Write a new sentence using the term. (e.) Insert an image for each slide / for each term (reference your sentence.) 4. Title your work LA10 WK 32 PBL (last names) Save to T Drive (your class.) 100% of your score based on accuracy, neatness, & completeness.
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