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Part Two Assigned Reading
* When class meets for their double hour.

Date Due Chapters (Pages) Keep in mind as you read and write in your journal
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Content | Role sheets for Literary Circles | Readings: Part One -Two | Final Project & Sign-off Form
Newt's Journal Entry | Read Newt's Journal


Part Two Assigned Reading
* When class meets for their double hour.

Date Due Chapters (Pages) Keep in mind as you read and write in your journal
Monday, 3/22/99 12-14 (151-176) Get to know these characters:
Arcella, Chauncey, Silas and Jack Kiner

Familiarize yourself with these situations:
Arcella & Chauncey - their story, car buried in the snow, summer science seminar, Newt witnesses murder, Kirky's investigation (interviews), Marcus promise to his father

Theme:
Acceptance - Arcella and Chauncey, Murder by a White man vs. a Black man

Symbols and Imagery of Life and Death
car buried in the snow on Christmas, murder

Monday, 3/29/99 15-16 (177-219) Get to know these characters:
Marcus and Booker Savage, Kirky, Newt, Sarah, Silas Newhall

Familiarize yourself with these situations:
Court Case, Newt's attempts at confession

Understand this quote by Jack Winger:
"I hope so, but if they can give a threat to a white man like that, what won't they do when they find out it's a colored man? (199)"

Themes:
Heroism - Newt's confession, Sarah
Acceptance - Newt's fear of telling the truth about the murder, Marcus Savage

Symbols and Imagery of Life and Death
Silas Newhall, Booker Savage, Sarah

Tuesday/Wednesday*
3/30-31/99
17-18 (220-240) Get to know these characters:
Marcus Savage, Sarah, Newt, Clint

Familiarize yourself with these situations:
Clint-the shotgun-and Sarah vs. Kirky, Newt's dream, Marcus vs. Newt

Understand this quote by Newt in connection to Reverend Broadnap's sermon "What is my life?"
"Why, then, was life given, and for no logically explained reason taken away again? (230)"

Themes:
Heroism - Sarah, Newt
Acceptance - Marcus vs. Newt

Symbols and Imagery of Life and Death
Sarah, Marcus-Kirky-Newt

Final Project - TBA