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Through the TunnelSeptember 14, 2015
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.
Doris Lessing 1919 - 2013
About Doris Lessing• 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
Symbol• Stands for something beyond itself• May be person, place, object, or activity
Setting as Symbol
• When a certain setting symbolizes important ideas
• Settings help characterize people in the story
Look for clues that tell you what the bay & the events that take place there symbolize to Jerry.
Conflict
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.
RIGHT SIDE: TUNNEL QUICKWRITE• 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.
LEFT SIDE OPTION:Draw this image in
your notebook. Then, fill in the shapes with
your own personal experience.
Consider the title and predict a storyline
Vocabulary (for a stamp): For each word, write the part of speech, the definition and use it in a sentence.
1. contrition 2. incredulous 3. inquisitive 4. persistence 5. promontory 6. supplication
Vocabulary• contrition – a feeling of regret for doing wrong
• promontory – a high ridge of land or rock jutting out into a body of water
More vocabulary• Supplication – humble request or prayer
• Incredulous – doubtful; disbelieving