Writing Prompt: What do you think of Janie and Tea Cake’s relationship? Is it just lust? Do they truly know one another? Will it last? Explain your point of view.
Today’s Agenda:
- Research Presentations
- Chapters 12 & 13
- Review vocabulary - Test tomorrow!!
Important Dates:
- Story Slam – tomorrow
- Research presentations – Wednesday
- Vocabulary Test – tomorrow
- Writing prompts due tomorrow
- Read chapter 14 for Wednesday (reading notes will be due on Thursday)
Chapter 12
- What kind of activities do Janie and Tea Cake do together?
- What does Sam Watson say is the reason Tea Cake is spending money on Janie?
- How does Janie feel about going places with Tea Cake? Why does Janie say she never went around before?
- Why does Janie admit she wore the mourning clothes (black and white)?
- What does Janie tell Pheoby she and Tea Cake are going to do?
- Why is Janie planning on selling the store? Why does she feel that she must leave town?
- What do we learn about the way Janie’s grandma wanted Janie to live her life? What does Janie want?
- Do you think Janie is foolish to trust Tea Cake? Explain.
Chapter 13
- What does the author mean by “It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful”?
- How do we know Janie doesn’t entirely trust Tea Cake?
- Why do you think Janie thought of Annie Tyler and Who Flung?
- What figure of speech is the following: “Janie dozed off to sleep but woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark”? What does this sentence mean?
- What does Tea Cake say he did with the money? Do you believe his story? Why or why not?
- Why didn’t Tea Cake invite Janie? Do you agree or disagree with his decision? Explain.
- How does Tea Cake say he will pay Janie back? What happens to him?
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