Homework: Parent/guardian, please assist your child with today’s
homework.
Quilt of a Nation-Can we all get along?
Option 1: Base
response on today’s class discussion and reading.
What is the point of this splintered whole? What is
the point of a nation in which Arab cabbies chauffeur Jewish passengers
through the streets of New York--and in which Jewish cabbies chauffeur Arab
passengers, too, and yet speak in theory of hatred, one for the other?
What is the point of a nation in which one part seems to be always on the verge
of fisticuffs with another, blacks and whites, gays and straights, left
and right, Pole and Chinese and Puerto Rican and Slovenian? Other countries
with such divisions have in fact divided into new nations with new names, but
not this one, impossibly interwoven even in its hostilities.
Vocabulary:
Splintered- broken into pieces Fisticuffs- a fist
fight
Chauffeur- a person whose job is to drive Interwoven- connected
Theory- ideas that are not proven Hostilities-
showing feelings of anger
Task: Based on what you have read and discussed, how can you
connect this passage to the theme of love and hate in Romeo and Juliet and West
Side Story. Give at least 2 examples
from each novel.
Option 2: Base response on today’s class discussion and
reading.
Task: Do you believe that people have more in common than they do
differences? State what you believe and
then give one example from Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story and real life. Write at least 4-6 sentences.
Option 3: Think
about what we discussed today as you plan your sentences.
Task: Write one sentence for each word below.
Vocabulary:
Splintered- broken into pieces Fisticuffs- a fist
fight
Chauffeur- a person whose job is to drive Interwoven- connected
Theory- ideas that are not proven Hostilities-
showing feelings of anger Fisticuffs-
a fist fight
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