To play hookey (from school)
You bet!
D. Prepositional phrases:
Year after year
To laugh with delight
To know by name
Hatred for smb/smth
To swear at smb
(to hum) to oneself
IV. Memorize the following derivational patterns; learn their meaning; give 5 derivatives built after it:
1. a + -en – V ripen
2. a + -ity – N stupidity
V. Explain the difference between:
Quiet, still, calm, tranquil. Use the words in some sentences to bring out the difference.
VI. Say what is meant:
Highway, quart, a country fair
VII. Remember the pronunciation of these place-names. Find the places in a geographical map and find reference to them in the story.
San Francisco, Los Angeles
XIII. Answer the following questions:
1. Where does the action of the story take place?
2. What was the nationality of the main character?
3. What did you learn about his family? How many sisters and brothers did he have?
4. How long had he been away from home?
5. Did he plan to come back home?
6. Was the young man impressed by the sight of his native town?
7. Who did he meet on the street?
8. Did the young man see any of his relatives?
IX. Explain how you understand the following:
1. The cleanliness of the air sharpened the moment so that, walking, he felt the magnificence of being, glory of possessing substance, of having form and motion and intellect, the piety of merely being alive on the earth.
2. Everything he had ever done had been a mistake, and this was one of the good mistakes.
3. For a moment he wanted to cry out the boy’s name, everything that was god in him, all his love, rushing to the face and form of the boy; but he restrained himself, in-haling deeply, tightening his lips.
X. Write a short summary of the story; retell the story.
XI. Discussion points:
1. What made the young man desert his home town in the first place? How did he live the two years after that? Why did he think that “everything he had ever done had been a mistake”?
2. The young man was happy to be back, wasn’t he? Why then did he feel ill at the sight of his old house? Comment upon the last sentence of the story.
3. Will he ever come back home, do you think? Why or why not?
4. What did “home” mean to the boy? What does it mean to you?
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