The Pearl

Today’s objectives 11/5/13YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:Determine if you agree or disagree with pre-reading statements

Partake in class dicussion and make predictions about the story

Understand Miss Philipp’s expectations for The Pearl Unit

NO HOMEWORK We will begin reading the pearl tomorrow!

Your job for todayTo be successful you must complete the following:

When you receive the anticipation guide, please write your name on it

Read the questions and mark whether you agree or disagree with the

statement in the “before reading” column

Answer the questions that follow, in 3-5 sentences!!

Consider the last question: you do not need to write a response but be

prepared to share

Your job for todayTo be successful you must:do all of the following

Q U I E T L YPlease have your book and post-it tabs out on your desk w/ a pen/pencil

When you get unit guide handout, please put your name on it…and take a look at the different categories

Your job for todayTo be successful you must:2 more things:

Post its& the books

themselves #’s

Today’s objectives 11/6/13You will be able to:

Partake in class discussion and determine “what is…is not” thus far in our

reading of the pearlInterpret the exposition of the story &

discuss important events/symbolismHomework:

Read chapter two!Continue to Annotate for the following:

Blue: CharacterizationYellow: symbolism

AND ****Pink: Conflict

Today’s objectives 11/6/13

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:Partake in class dicussion and make

predictions about the storyUnderstand Miss Philipp’s expectations

for The Pearl UnitInterpret the exposition of the story

Homework: Read chapter one!

Annotate for the following:Blue: Characterization

Yellow: symbolism

Background/expectations

John SteinbeckPearls/KinoAnnotations

Your job for todayTo be successful you must:Please have your book and post-it

tabs out on your desk w/ a pen/pencilPull out your unit guide and symbolism chart

Today’s objectives 11/7/13

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:Identify important events and symbolism

in chapter 2 ofThe pearl

Homework: Read chapter three & fill out

symbolism sheet!Continue to Annotate for the

following:Blue: Characterization

Yellow: symbolismPink: Conflict

PEARL VOCAB

Estuary: bay, sound, inletNayarit: located in Western Mexico

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Your job for todayTo be successful you must:do all of the following

Q U I E T L YPlease have your book and post-it tabs out on your desk w/ a pen/pencil

Pull out your unit guideYou need a symbolism chart BEFORE YOU LEAVE CLASS!

Today’s objectives 11/7/13You will be able to:

Interpret the exposition of the story & discuss important events/symbolism

within chapter 1 of The PearlHomework:

Read chapter two and fill out symbolism sheet

Continue to Annotate for the following:

Blue: CharacterizationYellow: symbolismAdd Pink: Conflict

Today’s objectives 11/12/13

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:As a class – determine classroom expectationsDiscuss and interpret importance of chapter 2

Homework: Read chapter 3

Your job for today:Expectations and then some…

Begin working in assigned groups

Fill out all symbol boxes from chapters 1-3 (pgs. 1 – 40)

Complete box chart for chapter 3 tonight

Chapter 3 quiz tomorrow!

Today’s objectives 11/14/13

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:Determine correct answers to

chapter 3 QuizDiscuss and interpret

importance of symbols within the story

Homework: Read chapter 4 - Due Monday…

potential quiz on important passages…

Today’s objectives 11/15/13

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:

D.E.A.R – FIRST 20 MINUTES

Discuss and interpret importance of symbols within

the story

Homework: Read chapter 4 - Due Monday…

potential quiz on important passages…

Today’s objectives 11/15/13

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:

D.E.A.R – FIRST 20 MINUTES

Determine correct answers to chapter 3 Quiz

Homework: Read chapter 4 - Due Monday…

potential quiz on important passages…

ALMOST OUTTA HERE…11/18/13

Happy Monday Thanksgiving is

comingPlease have out your book, the post-it I handed you, and a pen

Respond to the following in at least 2 sentences…

READ the following quote:“All of the neighbors hoped that sudden wealth

would not turn Kino’s head, would not make a rich man of him, would not graft onto him the evil limbs of greed and hatred and coldness. For Kino was a well-liked man; it would be a shame if the pearl

destroyed him. ‘That good wife Juana,’ they said, ‘and the beautiful baby Coyotito, and the others to come. What a pity it would be if the pearl should

destroy them all” (Steinbeck 43).

Demonstrating your understanding of this passage, analyze the symbolic importance. That is, explain what symbolic idea/theme it connects to and how

you know! 2 sentences!!!

Today’s objectives 11/18/13

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:Discuss and interpret

importance of symbols within the story

Homework: Passage analysis quiz

Today’s objectives 11/19/13

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:Discuss and interpret

importance of symbols within the story

Focus: Chapter 4

Analyze passages and answer questions correctly

Homework:Read chapter 5 and annotate

And chapter 6 – we will finish the book this week

Today’s objectives 11/20/13

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:Discuss and interpret

importance of symbols within the story

Focus: Chapter5Analyze passages and answer

questions correctlyHomework:

And chapter 6 – we will finish the book this week

The pearlsymbolic level of interpretation.

The pearl is a pearl of great price

represents the vanity of human wishes

Kino can do all the things that he has never dared to do before.

Steinbeck's warning is to symbolize the evil, and only by casting it away can Kino regain a spiritual sense of

well-being.

The pearlsymbolic level of interpretation.

SONGSwhenever Kino has a particularly

powerful feeling or instinct, he hears a song in his head that corresponds

to that feeling. When he is happy : he hears the

Song of the Family. When he senses malice or

dishonesty: he hears the Song of Evil.

the songs actually give form to kino and his people’s inner feelings.

The pearlsymbolic level of interpretation.

SETTINGRICH VS. POOR

WHAT IS SIGNIFICANT ABOUT THE LOCATION…WHY THE GULF?

"The uncertain air that magnified some things and blotted out others hung over the whole Gulf

so that all sights were unreal and vision could not be trusted; so that sea and land had the sharp

clarities and the vagueness of a dream."

The pearlsymbolic level of interpretation.

ANIMALS

Reactions, actions, and instincts…

The pearlsymbolic level of interpretation.

HandsLEFT VS. RIGHT

Let’s look at your chart

The pearlLIGHT AND DARK

LIGHT:HAPPINESSPOSTIVITY

“LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL”What is constantly described with

light?

DARK:SADNESS

NEGATIVITYDARKNESS – NO WAY OUT

What is constantly described with dark?

The pearlULTIMATE DOOM!

life and death and the meaning of both. During the course of the story, a simple family, through no particular

fault, is brought to a tragic end. Their pearl is supposed to be used to bring their child out of darkness and into the world of light; he will be able to learn to read and write, and he will

then be able to help all of the natives. Instead, the pearl becomes the direct

instrument of the child's death.

The pearlRECAP!

major conflict :After finding a magnificent pearl, Kino seeks to sell it to acquire wealth. He wishes for his son’s wound to heal,

and for his son to obtain an education and become an equal to the European

colonists who keep his people in a state of ignorance and poverty. When

he tries to sell the pearl, however, Kino quickly meets resistance in the

form of other people’s greed. Ultimately, his struggle to acquire wealth places him at odds with his

family, his culture, and nature, as Kino himself succumbs to greed and

violence.

The pearl rising action

A scorpion stings Coyotito; Kino discovers a great pearl; Kino’s attempts to sell the pearl are

unsuccessful, and he is mysteriously attacked; Kino beats Juana for

attempting to discard the pearl.

climax · Kino kills a man who attacks him for his pearl, an event that exposes the tension surrounding this object as a

bringer of great evil as well as a chance for salvation.

The pearl

falling action · Kino and Juana flee the village and

find themselves chased by trackers; Kino fights with the trackers, not

knowing that they have taken Coyotito’s cry to be that of a coyote and shot him; Kino and Juana return

to the village and throw the pearl back into the sea.

RESOLUTION

The pearl

themes Greed as a destructive force; the roles of fate and agency in shaping human life; colonial society’s oppression of

native cultures