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Mrs. Hamilton
Character Response: November 18, 2008 November 19, 2008
Which character did you find most memorable from our novella? Why? Explain why this character stood out to you and was memorable.
November 12, 2008: Reflecting on Your Research November 13, 2008
Reflect on what you have read and accomplished tonight.
1. Discuss what you learned tonight—what information seemed important to you? What information stood out to you?
2. What did you accomplish tonight?
3. Do you feel ready to start taking electronic notes tomorrow?
You may respond in complete sentences; you may number your responses.
Monday, November 11, 2008: Responding to Chapters 8-9, Maggie November 10, 2008
onsider what happened tonight in Chapters 8 and 9 tonight.
- What are you reactions to Chapter 8-9?
- What events, attitudes, or plot developments stood out to you our reading from tonight?
- What was most surprising to you in tonight’s reading? Why?
- Look back at each chapter. What do you think was the most important thing that happened in EACH chapter? Why?
- In your opinion, what was the most interesting expression or quote? (give the quote and page number) Why?
- Who is the most vivid character to you so far? Why? Describe that character and explain why he/she is so memorable to you at this point in the novella.
- How did tonight’s reading make you feel? Why?
- What do you predict will happen next?
Please organize your responses to these questions in a paragraph of 10-15 sentences. Think deeply and thoughtfully!
November 6, 2008: Responding to Chapters 6-7, Maggie November 7, 2008
Consider what happened tonight in Chapters 6 and 7 tonight.
- What are you reactions to Chapter 6-7?
- What events, attitudes, or plot developments stood out to you our reading from tonight?
- What was most surprising to you in tonight’s reading? Why?
- Look back at each chapter. What do you think was the most important thing that happened in EACH chapter? Why?
- In your opinion, what was the most interesting expression or quote? (give the quote and page number) Why?
- Who is the most vivid character to you so far? Why? Describe that character and explain why he/she is so memorable to you at this point in the novella.
- How did tonight’s reading make you feel? Why?
- What do you predict will happen next?
Please organize your responses to these questions in a paragraph of 10-15 sentences. Think deeply and thoughtfully!
November 5, 2008: Responding to Chapters 4-5 of Maggie, A Girl of the Streets November 6, 2008
Reflect on what we have read tonight in Chapters 4 and 5. Consider these questions:
- What are your impressions of Jimmie? What do you think of him?
- What are your impressions of Pete? What do you think of him at this point?
- What are your impressions of Maggie? What do you think of her at this point in the novella?
Share your impressions and responses in a paragraph of 10-12 sentences.
Responding to Chapters 1-3: Maggie, A Girl of the Streets (November 3, 2008) November 4, 2008
Consider these questions:
- What was your first reaction to our reading? Explain.
- What events, attitudes, or plot developments stood out to you in the first three chapters? Why?
- What was most surprising to you in tonight’s reading? Why?
- Look back at each chapter. What do you think was the most important thing that happened in EACH chapter? Why?
- In your opinion, what was the most interesting expression or quote? (give the quote and page number) Why?
- Who is the most vivid character to you so far? Why? Describe that character and explain why he/she is so memorable to you at this point in the novella.
- How did tonight’s reading make you feel? Why?
- What do you predict will happen next?
Please organize your responses to these questions in at least two paragraphs of 5-10 sentences. Think deeply and thoughtfully!
April 28: Post Novella Reflections April 29, 2008
Choose any TWO of the following questions to answer.
Reflect back on our novella, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets. Please answer TWO these questions in paragraph format.
1. Look back at your background packet and consider the themes of this novella: poverty and hypocrisy. How are these themes illustrated in the novella through the characters and plot? Explain in a paragraph of 12-15 sentences. Give specific examples from the text to support your answers.
2. In your opinion, who was the most important character in this novella? Why? Respond in a paragraph of 8-10 sentences.
3. What role does religion play in this novella? How do the various characters use religious language and approach religious themes? How does the narrator seem to feel about organized religion? Give examples from the novella to support your answer. Respond in a paragraph of 8-12 sentences.
4. Obviously, the characters in this novel speak in the dialect of lower Manhattan, and Crane makes an attempt to preserve this dialect. Think about the use of dialect in the novel: How does it make the reader feel about the characters? How is it intended to make the reader feel? Think especially about the relationship between how the characters sound and what they are saying.
5. Crane’s novella Maggie: A Girl of the Street raises important questions about the capacity of people to be responsible for their own deeds. Is Maggie to blame for her descent into prostitution? Is Jimmie to blame for his violence, brutishness, and casual cruelty? Or must we point the finger at the social forces and diseases that brought them to the brink of degradation (poverty, coercive capitalism, lack of education, alcoholism)? How does this book steer a path between the two extremes of absolute personal responsibility and entirely contingent morality? Or does it avoid choosing a compromise position, and instead throw itself behind the position that social circumstance, not personal choice, is to blame for Maggie’s tragedy? Respond in a paragraph of 12-15 sentences.
6. Color plays a crucial role in setting the symbolic and emotional overtones in Maggie. Most obviously, there are the repeated references to varying shades of red when describing Mary; it seems that her face is always “crimson” or “fervent red. . . turned almost to purple.” What are the symbolic functions of the color red in this novel? Are there any other colors that Crane uses to symbolic or emotional effect? How? Where? Explain in a paragraph of 8-12 sentences.
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