Chronicle of a Death Foretold -- Chapter 2 Groupwork
Tuesday: Read pages 25-37 and complete the following
On your group’s answer sheet:
Wednesday: Continue reading Chapter 2; p37-47 and complete the following
On your group’s answer sheet CONTINUE TO:
**You will have Thursday’s class period to wrap up anything left unread or unanswered. This means that you may need to complete some work at home; that is a decision you must come to within your groups. Your notebooks will be checked for completed work during Friday’s SSR period. You will get a grade for class participation and for homework. Your group will get an additional classwork grade for the separate paper you hand in as a group.**
Tuesday: Read pages 25-37 and complete the following
On your group’s answer sheet:
- Identify which pages each group member read aloud
- Cite a line that helps to identify one of the characters. Explain why this line is so important in understanding the character chosen.
- Below is a highlighted questions that your group has been chosen to become experts on. Please include the answer to this question on the paper your will hand in.
- Who is Bayardo San Roman?
- Examine the narrator’s mother’s conflicting reactions to Bayardo. What does she mean when she comments, “It also seems that he’s swimming in gold”(p.27).
- Discuss Bayardo’s courtship on Angela Vicario, and examine her and her family’s reactions to him.
- Examine information about the Vicario family.(add these characters and details about them into your notes) Note how the parents raise their children and the effect this has on Angela. Why does the mother believe her daughters will make perfect wives?
- Discuss the narrator’s assessment of Angela. What does it mean when the narrator remarks about the “helpless air and a poverty of spirit that augured an uncertain future for her” (p32).
- Discuss Bayardo’s family and their impact on the village.
- Analyze what Bayardo’s purchase of the Xius house reveals about both men.
Wednesday: Continue reading Chapter 2; p37-47 and complete the following
On your group’s answer sheet CONTINUE TO:
- Identify which pages each group member read aloud
- Cite a line that helps to identify one of the characters. Explain why this line is so important in understanding the character chosen.
- Below is a highlighted questions that your group has been chosen to become experts on. Please include the answer to this question on the paper your will hand in. (This question should be answered IN ADDITION to chapter 2, part 1 questions)
- Examine the cause/effect of the illusions Angela and Bayardo have concerning their marriage. Discuss the universality of unrealistic expectations in marriage.
- Compare/contrast the lifestyles of Angela’s and Bayardo’s families, and discuss the effect this has on their relationship.
- Discuss the irony of Angela’s reaction to Bayardo’s late arrival (on their wedding day)
- Discuss the wedding and its effect on Santiago, the narrator, and the other young men.
- Discuss Angela’s return to her parents’ home. Analyze the metaphor and simile that describe her confession, “...she nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written” (p47). Do you think she is telling the truth?
- Analyze the Vicarios’ code of honor and the contrast of the double standard for males and females.
- Will Angela’s confession prove to be true or false?
**You will have Thursday’s class period to wrap up anything left unread or unanswered. This means that you may need to complete some work at home; that is a decision you must come to within your groups. Your notebooks will be checked for completed work during Friday’s SSR period. You will get a grade for class participation and for homework. Your group will get an additional classwork grade for the separate paper you hand in as a group.**