Tuesdays+With+Morrie

4/17/2014

Unit Test: Tuesdays With Morrie.

Please return novel before Spring Break.

4/16/2014



4/15/2014

•Morrie’s Birth: 12/20/1916 •1st Interview: 3/17/1995 •2nd Interview: 5/19/1995 •3rd Interview: 10/13/1995 •Morrie’s Death: 11/4/1995 •Novel: 1997 •Movie: 1999

Review "To a Mouse"; read and answer questions for "The Thirteen Tuesday", "The Fourteenth Tuesday", "Graduation" and "The Conclusion."

Audio Book



4/14/2014

•Flashback #17 (Job):In the creation story in Job, the stars sing for joy of creation. •In the 11th Tuesday’s poem (“The Tyger”), stanza 5 alludes to Lucifer and God.

Review 11-"The Tyger" and AV3.

Read "The Twelfth Tuesday" and analyze extension poem for homework.

4/11/2014

•The O. J. Simpson murder case spanned from November 2, 1994 on October 3, 1995. •Simpson was tried and acquitted on two counts of murder: his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Lyle Goldman.

Review 9; read and answer questions for "The Tenth Tuesday"; analyze extension poem.

Read and answer questions for "The Eleventh Tuesday" and "The Audiovisual Part 3" for homework.

[|Tuesdays with Morrie Movie]

4/10/2014 •Pastoral (Latin for shepherd) texts take place in an idealized countryside. •These texts portray the contrast between nature vs. society and naivety vs. sophistication.

Read and answer questions for "The Eight Tuesdays"; analyze extension poems.

Read and answer questions for "The Ninth Tuesday" for homework.

4/9/2014

•Carpe Diem (Latin): to seize the day. •From the quote, “Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.” •Coy: having a shy or sweetly innocent quality that is often intended to be attractive or to get attention.

Review 5-7; analyze extension poems for "The Seventh Tuesday."

4/8/2014

•Polio is an incurable, acute, viral, infectious disease spread from person to person; however, there is an effective vaccine.

• One common source of infection is contaminated (from human waste) water and food supplies.

Read and answer questions for "The Fifth Tuesday" to "The Seventh Tuesday."

4/7/2014

•The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression the decade before World War II triggered by the 1929 stock market crash.

•Morrie grew up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan during this time.





Read and answer questions for "The Fourth Tuesday." Please analyze two extension poems.

4/4/2014

•Crowns, pounds, and guineas: British coins

•Rue (verb): bitterly regret (something one has done or allowed to happen) or (noun) repentance; regret.

Please read and answer questions.



Extension: Newspaper Article

4/3/2014 •Wan: looking sick or pale or having a weak quality.

•Prithee: used to express a wish or request (from pray thee).

Read and answer questions for "The Second Tuesday" and "Why so Pale and Wan?"

Extensions

First World Problems: Water is Life

The Miniature Earth

4/2/2014

•After earning an undergraduate in sociology from Brandeis, Mitch attended Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, followed by an MBA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.

•During the novel, Mitch lived and worked in Detroit, Michigan.



Read and answer questions for 'The First Tuesday"; complete extension activities(riddle, poem, and excerpt).

4/1/2014

•Brandeis University is a private, liberal arts school located in Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston.

•Morrie lived in Newton, Massachusetts, seven miles west of Boston.

Read pages (novel) 26-47; answer questions 16-26.

3/31/2014

•Mitch Albom is a novelist, journalist, columnist, screenwriter, dramatist, broadcaster, musician, and philanthropist.

•Morrie Schwartz was a sociology professor at Brandeis University.





Read pages (novel) 1-25; answer questions 1-15.

3/28/2014

•Tuesdays With Morriewas published in 1997 and based on events in 1995. •The novel is a memoir (a narrative composed from personal experience) about Morrie Schwartz.



Define words (1-15).

Merriam-Webster Dictionary