Gryphon
"Gryphon" by Charles BaxterABOUT THE AUTHOR:
5 facts about the author, relate the story to the author's personal life and provide an image of the author
- Charles Baxter was born in Minneapolis
- He graduated from Macalester College, in Saint Paul
- He completed graduate work in English at the State University of New York at Buffalo
- Later he taught for several years at Wayne State University in Detroit.
- Baxter is the author of 5 novels, 5 collections of short stories, 3 collections of poems, 2 collections of essays on fiction
- He has edited for many other authors
PREREADING REFLECTION:
What do you expect to learn when you have a substitute teacher?
I do not expect to learn anything for subs except for the planned curriculum for that day.
What are some strategies substitutes used to teach their classes? Which strategies work? Which do not?
Some subs have tried making class work into and game and others just improvised and didn't really teach. Making class work a game helped and worked because everyone was interested on the game and forgot it was work.
VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT:
Define each term as it is used in the context of the story. Provide a quote, in quote format, from the story.
Painstakingly -
Done with thoroughness in great detail
"Let ud go on to your assigned problems for today, as painstakingly outlined, I see, in Mr HIbler's lesson plan (page 69)."
Cosmic -
Supernatural or msyterious and having to do with the universe
"The nature of the pyramid is to guide cosmic energy froces into a concentrated point (page 72)."
Improvise -
To formulate somehting, usually a plan or idea, at the time
"I had to improvise to outrage him (page 74)."
Variant -
Antoher form or version of one thing
"Gryphon: a variant of griffin (page 76)."
Fabulous -
Extraordinary with no basis in reality
"Griffin: 'a fabulous beast with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion (page 76).".
Pretense -
Sign or hint as to what might happen
"This time there was no pretense of doing a reading lesson or mving on to arithmetic (page 76)."
Demoralized -
having or lost confidence and hope
"He seemed demoralized (page 79)."
CONTRASTING IDEAS:
Provide 4 examples from the text to support each idea
Typical:
Makes them do arithmetic
Tells them to be quiet
Follows the lesson plan
She struggles to learn the ways teachers usually teach
She teaches the required curriculum
Non-Typical:
She read fortunes
She talked about her life
She have false facts and teaches her opinion
She eats with the kids
She asked them to judge them first and then stop
5 facts about the author, relate the story to the author's personal life and provide an image of the author
- Charles Baxter was born in Minneapolis
- He graduated from Macalester College, in Saint Paul
- He completed graduate work in English at the State University of New York at Buffalo
- Later he taught for several years at Wayne State University in Detroit.
- Baxter is the author of 5 novels, 5 collections of short stories, 3 collections of poems, 2 collections of essays on fiction
- He has edited for many other authors
PREREADING REFLECTION:
What do you expect to learn when you have a substitute teacher?
I do not expect to learn anything for subs except for the planned curriculum for that day.
What are some strategies substitutes used to teach their classes? Which strategies work? Which do not?
Some subs have tried making class work into and game and others just improvised and didn't really teach. Making class work a game helped and worked because everyone was interested on the game and forgot it was work.
VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT:
Define each term as it is used in the context of the story. Provide a quote, in quote format, from the story.
Painstakingly -
Done with thoroughness in great detail
"Let ud go on to your assigned problems for today, as painstakingly outlined, I see, in Mr HIbler's lesson plan (page 69)."
Cosmic -
Supernatural or msyterious and having to do with the universe
"The nature of the pyramid is to guide cosmic energy froces into a concentrated point (page 72)."
Improvise -
To formulate somehting, usually a plan or idea, at the time
"I had to improvise to outrage him (page 74)."
Variant -
Antoher form or version of one thing
"Gryphon: a variant of griffin (page 76)."
Fabulous -
Extraordinary with no basis in reality
"Griffin: 'a fabulous beast with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion (page 76).".
Pretense -
Sign or hint as to what might happen
"This time there was no pretense of doing a reading lesson or mving on to arithmetic (page 76)."
Demoralized -
having or lost confidence and hope
"He seemed demoralized (page 79)."
CONTRASTING IDEAS:
Provide 4 examples from the text to support each idea
Typical:
Makes them do arithmetic
Tells them to be quiet
Follows the lesson plan
She struggles to learn the ways teachers usually teach
She teaches the required curriculum
Non-Typical:
She read fortunes
She talked about her life
She have false facts and teaches her opinion
She eats with the kids
She asked them to judge them first and then stop