DUE Friday: 2/20/2008
The stories by A. Chekhov can be found here:
Death of a Clerk
Small Fry
The Malefactor
The Assignment. Due Friday.
Name:__________________________
Period:__________________________
Date:__________________________
Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
20 points Total.
1.) Define and use the following ten words from Death of a Clerk in a sentence: (5 points total; ½ point for each full response. ¼ point for a definition and ¼ point for using the word in a sentence)
Acme:
Bliss:
Reprehensible:
Fiendish:
Breach:
Frivolous:
Queerly:
Lachrymose:
Fanfaron:
Jove:
2.) Answer the following questions relating to “Small Fry”: (Five Points Total. One point for each response)
A. What did you like best, if anything, about ‘Small Fry?’
B. What makes this story about ‘Small Fry:’
pun (pŭn)
(n. A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.)
C. What do you think of Nevyrazimov?
D. Does Nevyrazimov know where America is?
E. Nevyrazimov seems to be a very unsatisfied, disconsolate individual. In your textbook, using Section 4 of Ch. 16, name another disconsolate group of people who influenced Russian history:
3.) Continue the story of the Malefactor. Write what happens after the stammering malcontent is led away using at least 2 paragraphs for full credit.
(10 points total. 5 points for each full paragraph)
Classwork: (Listening to the 1812 Overture and Reading Mikhael Lermontov's poem about The Battle of Borodino
Listen to the Overture (using real 1812 French cannons) here:
At Wikipedia
