Through the TunnelSeptember 14, 2015

While you test• Focus on your test.

Take your time! • Do your best.

After you test• Bring your test to

me.• Be respectful of

those still testing!• Start the

assignments posted on the board.

Doris Lessing 1919 - 2013

About Doris Lessing• Grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in Africa• British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist,

biographer and short story writer.• Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest

person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007

• Doris Lessing: A Retrospective http://www.dorislessing.org/index.html

Symbol• Stands for something beyond itself• May be person, place, object, or activity

Setting as Symbol

• When a certain setting symbolizes important ideas

• Settings help characterize people in the story

Look for clues that tell you what the bay & the events that take place there symbolize to Jerry.

Conflict

Definition:

• A struggle between opposing forces• Internal Conflict – the conflict is within the character• Man against himself

• External Conflict – a character is pitted against an outside force• Man against man• Man against nature

Left Side Option:

• Identify (page number and description) external and internal conflicts Jerry and his mom face.

RIGHT SIDE: TUNNEL QUICKWRITE• Think of a time when you felt you had something

to prove. • Briefly retell the story. • WHY did you want to do it? • What did you do to prepare for it? • In the end, was it worth it? • WHAT did you gain/lose? • HOW did you, your peers/opponents, parents

react? • Elaborate in a journal of five or more descriptive

sentences.

LEFT SIDE OPTION:Draw this image in

your notebook. Then, fill in the shapes with

your own personal experience.

Consider the title and predict a storyline

Vocabulary (for a stamp): For each word, write the part of speech, the definition and use it in a sentence.

1. contrition 2. incredulous 3. inquisitive 4. persistence 5. promontory 6. supplication

Vocabulary• contrition – a feeling of regret for doing wrong

• promontory – a high ridge of land or rock jutting out into a body of water

More vocabulary• Supplication – humble request or prayer

• Incredulous – doubtful; disbelieving