OVER SPRING BREAK

Take out your handout of Ellen Foster(Chapters 10-15)

1. Continue reading where you left off.

2. Highlight or underline or write in the margins of the text, when you come across what you consider to be important.

3. Write at least five (5) “HOW” or “WHY” questions about each chapter.

4. Answer these questions. If you cannot answer questions you have written, they are either faulty or you need to reread the chapter.

5. Email me your work, or hand in your work to me the day you come back, otherwise I do not know you have done it.

CHAPTER 10 ESSAY

Answer these questions as an essay:
1. How and why have Ellen's living conditions changed? 
2.What did Ellen expect; what did she get?
3.How does Ellen benefit from her mama's mama's cruelty?
4.What does Ellen learn and and how does she change?
5. Why and how does Ellen's relatioship with her grandma then change?

Chapter 8 Questions

1. Why is Ellen staying with her art teacher?
2. Why do Ellen, Julia, and Roy use chicken shit in the yard?
3. What would they do every Sunday?
4. Why does Ellen say what she says about her father?
5. What was Sterletta's reaction to the presents Ellen gave to her?

UPON FINISHING THE NOVEL

1. How does Ellen's time spent working on her grandmother's field with black workers alter her view on racism? Why does she say she could pass for a "colored person?"
2. Why does Ellen admire Mavis's and Starletta's families?
3. How does Ellen's friendship with Starletta change over the course of the two years the novel takes place? How is this shown?
4. How does Ellen reveal she is wise beyond her age? How does she mature throughout the course of the novel?
5. Why is Ellen so glad that she does not believe in Santa Claus? How does this act as an indicator of her maturity? How and why is this sad?
6. Why is Ellen's Grandmother so cruel to her? How does this make Ellen question herself? What prompts her to accuse Ellen of killing her mother?
7.Why does Ellen blame herself for her mother's death? What reason does she give for not wanting her grandmother to die?
8. How is Ellen affected by her relationship with her grandmother? How does her stay there change Ellen, and what does it reveal about her character?

Please Punctuate This Sentence

Mr Balgley rushed to get to his car before a sanitation truck blocked his street he tripped on the sidewalk as he ran he fell into an iron tree guard he suffered head trauma profuse bleeding a deep laceration above his eye he also was wounded with severe ambrasions to his nose and brow he was driven to the emergency room on NY Hospital with his wife he was treated by three doctors he left the hospital four hours later he went to a plastic surgeon who sewed his laceration closed he looked as frightening as a monster he tried to get bed rest and the following he day was obliged to start jury duty

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How does Ellen survive?