Homework: Parents/guardians,
please assist your child with today’s homework.
Option 1:
1. What kind of conflict is
present in Monster?
2. Steve Harmon’s defense attorney, Kathy O’Brien, says she
wants to make her client look like “a human being in the eyes of the jury” (p.
16) in contrast to the “monsters” who the assistant district attorney claims
are “willing to steal and to kill, people who disregard the rights of others”
(p. 21).
Why do you think Walter Dean
Myers named his book Monster?
Option 2:
Read
the following quote from the novel Monster and answer the questions that
follow on a piece of paper. Hint: Read the quotes like a play.
Prisoner One
says: Yo,
Harmon, you gonna eat something? Come on and get your breakfast, man. I’ll take
your eggs if you don’t want them. You want them?
Steve Harmon
says in a subdued way: I’m not hungry.
Prisoner Two
says: His
trial starts today. He’s up for the big one. I know how that feels.
1. Context Clues: Look at the word in
italics. Use the General Clues to figure out what this unfamiliar word means.
What do you think the word subdued
might mean?
Option 3:
Base response on the text below:
Jose
I went around behind the
counter and I saw Mr. Nesbitt on the floor – there was blood everywhere – and
the cash register was open.
1.
What did Jose see?
Sal Zinzi is nervous and
slightly overweight. He wears
thick glasses.
2.
Describe Sal
Zinzi.
Zinzi
Some guys were…harassing
me.
Question: What
does …harassing mean to you?
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