PDF of 3 short stories and Pride & Prejudice chapters (46-54)

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A hunger artist by Franz Kafka

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Acrostic of "Eveline" by James Joyce.

Activity: Create an acrostic using different texts.

-For understand the context of some phrases and read the story of "Eveline" check out the link:https://americanliterature.com/author/james-joyce/short-story/eveline

(The stories that were used are highlighted in bold)

-Emotional girl who believes she is a defenseless creature.
-Violence and abuse is what lately her father gives, she wants to undertake a journey far away   without thinking if her father will feel any regret or not about her as Mamzelle Aurlie.
-Ernest was her brother but now he rest in peace with their mom as two sphinxes without secrets.
-Lives in a reality of  confusion and death, she is so accustomed to see this that she could even see a hanging stranger and discover  how hopeless is her real world.
-Ignorance is what she discover in her thoughts by believing that she will have a new life with her lover frank, full of happiness and fulfillment as a model millionaire.
-North Wall station for her is a melancholic place full of uncertainty, mystery and anxiety as one autumn night, inspires surprises and decisions.
-Ends her fearful desire and unlocks the way for a new beginning as a burglar alarm indicates the start of a new say.

Dialogue between two people of "Regret" by Kate Chopin.

Activity: Write up a script as a dialogue between two people.

- Dialogue between Marcline and her mother Odile, this is what happens when Odile tries to explain to one of her daughters what is happening and what she has to do, to understand better the story context and read how is the end check out the next link:https://americanliterature.com/author/kate-chopin/short-story/regret

Odile: Marcline I have something important to say.I don't know how you will receive it but I don't want you get angry or alter.Pay attention I hope that you listen because I will not repeat this again.

Marcline: what happen mommy? you look really sad and hopeless. My brothers and I disgust you with something?            

Odile: no ,I'm just feeling a little bit sick  and worried so don't worry you're such wonderful kids I love with all my heart ,that's not the matter this moment sweetie .Marcline do you remember when I told you that all mothers in the whole world must be loved, respected, serviced and maintained by their good and lovely sons?

Marcline: yes, I clearly remember that from one dinner some nights ago, what happen with that  mommy?

Odile: well now it is my turn to apply that rule in my life with my mother, I have to make a long travel for help her ,she is really ill and she needs me .No matters what happens in my heart I have the possibility or the wish of find her alive but here is when the big problem appears...

Marcline: what is it mom? is too expensive to ride in bus 4 children and a woman?

Odile: well that's not exactly the big problem...  the trouble is that you and your brothers can't go with me and because of that I have to leave you for a time.

Marcline: WHAT? ... but I think that us...this can't be!!!! I think that we would travel all together as the family we are!, you are our mommy, you can't leave us! YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME!

Odile: my dear please calm down, I have been feeling very bad recently and I know my mother too or even worst so please just listen me.....

Marcline: I will not listen anything you have to say ,I don't want you to go and leave me alone! my brothers will cry a lot with this new and now I will do it too.

Odile: darling I know this is hard but  my reasons about why I'm leaving are really important, I will not lave you  forever and maybe the time I will spend out will be just weeks or even days so please take care of yourself and also of your brother and of your sisters, you're too younger to understand why I'm doing this but I trust in you and in Manzelle Aurlie to take care between yourselves.

Marcline: but I'm going to miss you a lot... what I'm supposed to do?... but wait a minute did you say Manzelle Aurlie? the woman of the cotton fields will take care of us?

Odile: yes and I hope you obey her the same way you obey me , do what she says and please don't forget what I say before about your brothers. ok?

Marcline: ok, its a promise mommy.

Odile: nice but now we have to leave, I must talk to her right now...

Homophones words from the tale "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin

1. Seen / scene.
-  I haven't seen her for ages.  (seen: visto)
- "He had been far from the scene of the accident."  (scene: escena)

2. For / four.
- "Count for in the face of this possession."  (for: para)
-  I want four apples.  (four: # cuatro)

3. Might /mite.
- "She had thought with a shudder that life might be long."  (might: podría)
-  I found a mite in the pillow.  (mite: acaro)

4. Day / they.
- Such a lonely day.  (day: día)
-"They stayed keen and bright."  (they: ellos)

5. Beat / beet.
-"She was striving to beat it back with her will."  (beat: vencer/golpear)
- I don't like to eat beet.  (beet: remolacha)

6. Break / brake.
 -"Great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible."  (break: romper)
-  My car has a broken brake.  (brake: freno)

7. Not / knot.
-"She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her."
 (not: no /negación)
- I have a knot in my throat.  (knot: nudo)

8. To / two / too.
-"And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome."  (to: a)
- The two soccer teams were amazing. (two: # dos)
- The homework was too easy.  (too: demasiado/muy)

9. There / their / they're.
-"There would be no one to live for during those coming years."  (there: ahi)
- Their names are funny.  (their: sus)
- They're great dancers.  (they're : ellos son)

10. Were / where.
-"She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy."  (were: era o no era)
- Where is your house?.  (where: donde)

Poem of "The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm" by Mark Twain

Activity: write up a poem using 10 unknown words.

1.riot

2.burglar

3.refurnish

4.glance

5.flung (fling)

6.dazzling

7.shrewdly

8.delusion

9.vacated

10.tinware

11.feeble

12.uneasiness 

Among the riot of my life and my burglar soul, I discovered I have a tinwared heart that vacated everything with a dazzling light and that only leaves delusion.

Now, I have just happy feeble memories that forsake me in uneasiness, shrewdly those memories become something I can't ignore or reject.

Why? Because it flings me in an unheard world where anything can't be refurnished and that's the reason why I don't want to glance at what I have done.

1st and 2nd activity narrating quotes

1st Quote
One Autumn night.

2nd Quote
A true story reapeated word for word as I heard it.