Name Class Date Score. 2. from An Astrologer s Day, why has the astrologer chosen the spot under the tamarind tree to conduct business?

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1 Name Class Date Score LA 10 Reading Comprehension Modern and Contemporary Literature WK 32 Directions: Read pages Use complete sentences with proper grammar to answer the following items. 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.

2 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?

3 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.

4 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.

5 Name Class Date Score LA 10 Vocabulary Development & Collaboration Modern and Contemporary Literature Wk 32 Collaborative / PROJECT BASED LEARNING Activity: Directions: 1. Read An Astrologer s Day, Love Must Not Be Forgotten, and Quang Binh (textbook pages ) 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.