AGENDA:
HMWK: Read to pg. 182 in Part 2 for TUESDAY
Handout: Reading check, multiple choice questions on Part 1--you may use your books! This is just to check your reading and recall
Activity:
THINK, PAIR SHARE
The symbol of family relationships is a strong one in "Mudbound". Using examples from the text, pick a card with a number, discuss with a partner and post a comment about the nature of one of the relationships below:
1. Jamie and Laura
2. Laura and Henry
3. Henry and Jamie
4. Florence and Ronsel
5. Ronsel and Hap
6. Florence and Hap
Writing
Work on your own short stories, create a padlet of historical images, develop 3 characters
Have a great weekend!
1. a. 2. a. 3. a. 4. c. 5. a. 6. c. 7. a. 8. b. 9. c. 10. a. 11. b. 12. d. 13. d. 14. a. 15. d. 16. b. 17. c. 18. d. 19. d. 20. d. 21. b. 22. d. 23. c. 24. d. 25. c. 26. c. 27. d. 28. d. 29. c. 30. c. 31. d. 32. a. 33. a. 34. d. 35. d. 36. b. 37. c. 38. a. 39. b. 40. b. 41. a. 42. c. 43. c.44. a. 45. b. 46. d. 47. d. 48. b. 49. c. 50. a. 51. c. 52. a. 53. c. 54. a. 55. d. 56. d. 57. a. 58. c. 59. d. 60. d.
ReplyDeleteFlorence and Ronsel have an interesting relationship. We've never seen them together, but just by the way Florence talks about Ronsel, and they way they each act independently, indicates how their relationship works. Florence has a very high opinion of her son, saying how he's smart enough to escape the delta and farming. When Hap breaks his leg, she prays that Ronsel will come back, because he'll set everything right. Both of these thoughts reflect her very high opinion of him. Additionally, each of them are very proud. Ronsel doesn't like taking insults and rudeness from white men, and neither does Florence. They both have a similar, very strong drive. That similarity between the two indicates closeness.
ReplyDeleteKayli and Carly:
ReplyDeleteJamie and Laura have an interesting relationship because although they aren't actually together, Laura constantly talks about him like they are. For example, when Laura was talking about how her brothers went into the war, she brought up Jamie too and it sounded like she was more sincere about Jamie than she was about her actual brothers. Through the description and the dialogue, it seems like Jamie and Laura might have more in store for each other by the end of the story.
Thiery and Gena discuss Henry and Jamie.
ReplyDeleteHenry and Jamie's relationship differs from many other sibling relationships in that Henry is twenty years older than Jamie. This creates a certain dynamic, in which Jamie looks up to Henry, and Henry is jealous of Jamie. Jamie admires his brother for his bravery and his service in the military. Additionally, Jamie owes his life to his brother, who saved him from drowning in the flood. Jamie explains his love for his brother: "The way Mama always told it, I started to pitch a fit, but when Henry held me up in front of him and said, "Hello, little brother," I stopped crying at once and stuck my fingers in his mouth," (34). Henry envies his younger brother's exuberance, charisma, and charm. Laura tells of Henry's jealousy: "He must have seen it before, must have felt it himself a hundred times in Jamie's presence: a longing for a brightness that would never be his," (25). Henry and Jamie compel each other to make better life choices. When Henry advises Jamie to become a pilot in the event that he must join the war, Jamie heeded the advice. Henry accepted Jamie's counsel when Jamie told him to marry Laura. Jamie tells Laura after Henry proposes to her: "I told him hee was an idiot if he didn't marry you," (30).
The relationship between Jamie and Laura is very different than most of the others in the book. Although they're not together, there is a great deal of unexpressed tension and feelings between them. Both think highly of each other, and it can be inferred that there will be much deeper relationship development between them later in the novel. A specific example of this can be found even in their first meeting, as they shared a lively dance and a great deal of subtle flirting.
ReplyDeleteLove, Nikki and Grace
The relationship between Henry and Jamie is Henry is jealous of Jamie. Henry gave Jamie some advice about the war and says to him," If you ever have to be a solider, promise me you'll try to get up to the sky. They say battle is a lot cleaner up there." They both fought in the war, and Jamie says he blames Henry for hating Hans his whole life.
ReplyDeleteThe relationship between Henry and Jamie are that they are brothers. Henry is very jealous of Jamie. they both were in the war and they both have been injured during the war. Henry told Jamie that if he goes to the war to fight from the sky and not the ground.
ReplyDeleteLaura and Henry have a loving and complicated relationship. For example, the loving side comes out when Henry is "unusually passionate that night in our bed." Their complicated side shows when Laura shows how uncomfortable and how her trust was betrayed when Henry tells her that he sold the house. "Just like that, my life was overturned. Henry didn't ask me how I felt about leaving my home of thirty-seven years and moving with his cantankerous father and in tow to a hick town in the middle of Mississippi, and I didn't tell him."
ReplyDeleteEthan Gresko and Nathan Pembrook
The relationship between Florence and Ronsel is close on two ends. One, Florence gives a lot of support and praise to her son, promoting him in a way of proving he's much more than his skin suggests. They both have to deal with the southern racism towards African Americans, and they are willing to stand up for their kind. They are ones not to accept abuse, but to prove the white man wrong. This shows a relationship of not only close similarity, but they both have a drive, a sense of pride in themselves as African Americans, that you really didn't see much in the south.
ReplyDeleteThe relationship between henry and Jamie is very realistic however it is also hard to understood. Henry has always been jealous of Jamie for his looks and personality however, this jealousy does not impede his ability to love Jamie, his younger brother. This is demonstrated as Henry says, "Henry was neither dashing nor romantic; like me, he was made of sturdier, plainer stuff," (29). Although Henry is jealous of Jamie, he always does his best to help him when he is in need, he saved him when he was younger and helped him during the war by giving him advice on the best way to fight.
ReplyDeleteTaina: The relationship between Henry and Laura its very passionate but yet has many secrets that will unravel in the long run. Laura always discusses how she was born to be a wife to Henry and to be a mother of her own children. But she constantly reminds her self of Jamie, Henry's younger brother. I believe that Laura truly does love Henry the way she say she does, but because of her always being the "black-sheep" growing up. She doesn't know how to handle the respectful attention Jamie gave her the first time they were introduced to one another.
ReplyDeleteFlorence and Ronsel are very close. Florence has a lot of pride in Ronsel and thinks he's too smart to be treated any kind of way. Florence and Ronsel are both very brave because during their time African Americans were treated very harshly but together they stood up against racism.
ReplyDelete