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Friday, December 14 th

Friday, December 14 th. Any questions before we take the quiz?. Chapters 1 – 4, 7-9 Quiz. *Make sure you put your name on your Scantron *Feel free to make marks on the quiz *Raise your hand if you have a question. Chapters 7 - 9. Hinal & Steven present their object!. Go Hinal !

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Friday, December 14 th

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  1. Friday, December 14th Any questions before we take the quiz?

  2. Chapters 1 – 4, 7-9 Quiz *Make sure you put your name on your Scantron *Feel free to make marks on the quiz *Raise your hand if you have a question

  3. Chapters 7 - 9 Hinal & Steven present their object! Go Hinal! Go Steven! It’s your object day! You are awesome! You can do it!

  4. Chapter 7 – “The Chapel” • “It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve of a Nantucket voyage, I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me, Yes, Ishmael, the same fate may be thine. But somehow I grew merry again” (35). • Word Choice • Establishing Mood • Foreshadowing later plot developments • Planting seeds about the notion of “fate” “Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me. And therefore three cheers for Nantucket” (36). * Ishmael’s reaction to the death imagery, but also an insight into Melville’s larger purpose…

  5. Chapter 8 – “The Pulpit”

  6. Chapter 8 – “The Pulpit” WHAT YOU MISS IF YOU READ SPARKNOTES… • “Yes, it was the famous Father Mapple, so called by the whalemen, among whom he was a very great favorite. He had been a sailor and a harpooneer in his youth, but for many years past had dedicated his life to the ministry. At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his wrinkles, there shone certain mild gleams of a newly developing bloom -- the spring verdure peeping forth even beneath February's snow” (36).

  7. Chapter 9- “The Sermon” • Jonah and the Whale • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpekJrO08EM

  8. Chapter 9- “The Sermon” • Important aspects of the chapter • Father’s Mapple’s position before, during, and after the sermon • Jonah’s actions and repentance • Possible implications between the story of Jonah and the story Ishmael is about to tell us

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