1. Warming up with a Socratic ticket walk
- While the song plays: Identify something on each ticket that you'd like to talk about in depth.
- When the song is over: Return to your ticket and write down a pattern you noticed in the reading tickets. In other words, what is one specific topic that many people wish to discuss today?
- Transitioning to Socratic: Find one passage from the reading that relates directly to that topic. Consider reading it aloud during discussion today.
2. Enjoying a Socratic seminar on East of Eden, Chapters 11-16
3. Wrapping up with kudos, epiphanies, and lingering questions
HW:
1. For Monday: Read through Chapter 21 for Monday's Socratic.
2. For Wednesday: Read through Chapter 26; all of class that day will be a reading day.
3. For Thursday: Finish your college essay. Use the Night-Before Checklist to make sure your essay is ready to turn in.
Tia: Is Kathy on a devil or angel scale?
ReplyDeleteKayla: I would say she is definitely a devil because she is very manipulative and take advantage of people. You can see it in your own feelings for her throughout the book.
Iain: Adam says that Cathy is his eve. But I think she is more like Satan. Sh eis more like the snake in the garden of eden
Kayla: Eve is the one who gave Adam the apple
Janie: Adam represents Able. Adam thinks he’s Adam, but Cathy is eve but it also represented as a snake
Sarah: Cathy is split almost into two characters: the way adam sees her (eve) and how Charles and Cathy sees her (snake)
Emma: There isn’t really a clear line between her two characters. The scar helps represent this: the darker is the less control
Piper: Charles’ scar is very similar in Cathys. They both get darker. But what are the similarities?
Tina: She is trying to figure out where she is in the story, as her scar gets darker the more her anticipation is built up
Piper: They are both trapped
Lindsey: They control very differently. Cathy uses her demonic side to control people. Charles does this to himself. Very big difference
Walker: Both scars come from rock: Cathy from other person she hurt and Charles from himself
Sarah: The scars are like dramatic irony. The scar is a constant reminder. The darker the scar gets the more the truth comes out. You can’t feel good, you can see it coming.
Tia: Foreshadowing. What harm could she do? A lot comes. “A good servant can control his master” - big conflict coming
Tina: Cathy is putting up a fasade. The “non good characters” pretty much say that they are “not who they say they are”.
Allie: “When the paint dries you’ll smell pig” - Cathy’s charm is going to wear off
LeClaire: Everyone in California sees the facade but Adam. There is a distance between the reader and Adam that is created. The older Cathy gets, the more evil she seems to get
Emma: Scars- if evil. Odd that Adam loves both of the characters with the scars. Is it some sort of connection between the two? THey can look past the scar and still have love for them. The mark for his love
Sarah: Odd that scar = love. Love can hurt
Gabreece: Does Adam really love Cathy or is it really for Cyrus? He lets all her threats fly like he did for his father
ReplyDeleteFaith: Adam doesn’t really love Cathy romantically. He just wants companionship. He wants to prove his existence
LeClaire: Like Gatsby, it’s this vision that isn’t tuly reality
Faith: he had his dream before her, but fit her in
Matthew: Cathy seems to be filling the spot of Cyrus. They are both abusive. Is it truly love or is he just filling a void?
Walker: What is Cathy’s end goal? What is she going to do?
Tina: Self preservation. She wants to make it out of California and reliance. Also out of pregnancy. She wants a way to break free and preserve herself
Lindsey: Why did she originally do this? She would’ve been fine as a teacher
Faith: SHe is a sociopath. She can’t feel emotion so she makes other people feel emotion so she can see it since she can’t
Maggie: Her perception of the world is very different. And how Adam sees Cathy is so different
Kayla: Yeah I agree, when they were having that conversation
Tina: Authentic-Adam
LeClaire: Why do you think Steinbeck has Cathy sleep with Charles?
Lindsey: It was a power kick for her. It was a way to control Adam. You don’t know who the dad is… and neither does she. It gives her a lot of control. It affects how Adam is going to respond. He will probably forgive her
Faith: Steinbeck let Able live. Will the child be good or evil. Adam or Charles? The personality will tell
Maggie: It is a way for Cathy to put up a barrier between herself and her affection for him
Drake: Is Steinbeck saying something about the descendant from an Able instead of a Cain?
Kayla: If it is Charles’ kid, it is almost like evil always wins. It gives you the feeling… depressin
Steve: It’s almost Steinbeck’s way of killing off Adam by killing off his descendants
Tina: will the child have a physical marking? Adam loves people with scars… so will he love his kid because of this
Emma: It was a discrete thing. The kid would be good, thought of, but could theoretically be evil
Faith: Steinbeck: evil will always prevail. Quote: how he believes in choice and freedom of mind… who do you think is talking? Contradicting idea
ReplyDeleteJanie: It’s part of the muddying waters of what is what… you think that everybody is a certain way, but maybe this idea is just furthering the idea that no matter whether you start good or evil, you can always go somewhere in between
Piper: Could people see their own offspring as good just because of a bias source?
Cool Down:
Elizabeth: I liked how the scar presented love. Olive… why do you think Steinbeck meant and the biblical character
Charolatte: I liked what Janie said about starting off good or bad and turning
Sarah: I liked how “How can someone so powerful be so afraid?”
Natalie: Like scars=love
Janie: Motif of eyes, love it
Maggies: There wasn’t any limit, no bounds to the future
Anna: Cathy and Samuel, there is something about their eyes describes them
Steve: Adam all the sudden gets a moment of clarity. He takes the opportunity
Tia: Who is the worst person? Who doens’t understand evil
Tina: Loved Janie’s ticket. Also traced the motif of eyes. It’s interesting the parallels between each person and their descriptions
Matthew: It’s symbolic Cathy slept with Charles, he wouldn’t have found someone otherwise
Ryan: The golden man, the flashback. Cathy and the goldenman comparison
Iain: ^^^ but more of how Samuel sees through everybody. Samuel is a good representation of God, very diverse children. Not for own gain
Micaela: I liked Allie’s connection with the paint and pigs. What role does the narrator play?
Gabreece: I really liked the connection between Samuel and __ and how they decieve people and how Cathy does
Emma: Goldenman described like Jesus. He looks as Samuel… God
Lindsey: Samuel doesn’t really have a character flaw
Piper: Eyes-Cathy’s eyes are Hazel at beginning but after meeting Adam- eyes are blue
Allie: Janie’s reading ticket was cool
Faith: trees… I thought it was really interesting that Olive’s chapter has something to do with a symbol.
LeClaire: For friday of homecoming, we did well. Haha thanks except for me… Chapter 17- Cathy is going to give birth… straight up exorcism. Then whorehouses.