1. Ask for four volunteers to place proactive vocab on the board. The remainder of the class should record the words and defs into their notebooks.
2. Students are to get into pairs (please ask them to work with someone with whom they do not normally socialize) and discuss the message presented in The Parable of the Talents. Once they have agreed upon this message they are to write 300 words in which they discuss how the theme of the parable relates to the themes of The Pearl. Each pair will turn in one paper in which they underline their thesis and use at least one quote from the parable and one quote from the novel.
3. Once they have finished and handed in the analysis of the parable please have students repair and answer the following questions:
a. Analyze the character of the doctor, the priest, and the pearl merchants. How are they victims of greediness? How do their actions show their greediness? Explain how they treat Kino and Juana before and after the discovery of the pearl. What judgments can be concluded regarding the fields of medicine, religion and business?
b. What happens to Kino and Juana after they return to their village and throw the pearl into the ocean? Where is their relationship? How do we know this?
c. Is the pearl itself really evil? Defend your answer.
4. Homework: Create five discussion questions based upon the text. Type and bring into class.
2. Students are to get into pairs (please ask them to work with someone with whom they do not normally socialize) and discuss the message presented in The Parable of the Talents. Once they have agreed upon this message they are to write 300 words in which they discuss how the theme of the parable relates to the themes of The Pearl. Each pair will turn in one paper in which they underline their thesis and use at least one quote from the parable and one quote from the novel.
3. Once they have finished and handed in the analysis of the parable please have students repair and answer the following questions:
a. Analyze the character of the doctor, the priest, and the pearl merchants. How are they victims of greediness? How do their actions show their greediness? Explain how they treat Kino and Juana before and after the discovery of the pearl. What judgments can be concluded regarding the fields of medicine, religion and business?
b. What happens to Kino and Juana after they return to their village and throw the pearl into the ocean? Where is their relationship? How do we know this?
c. Is the pearl itself really evil? Defend your answer.
4. Homework: Create five discussion questions based upon the text. Type and bring into class.
