Today's Assignment and Notes: Pretty Much the Same as Yesterday--but on your own this time

Please COPY THE ANSWERS you are missing INTO YOUR PACKET and we will go over them in a minute:

6. Senator Bell's responses reveal that his opinion of Hundert isn't very high. He states, "I'm sorry young man...but I will mold him. You will merely teach him (163-64) showing that the father thinks Hundert is thinking too highly of his job as a teacher. He thinks he can boss Hundert around and talks down to him.

7. Hundert says his "heart warmed somewhat towards young Sedgewick" because after meeting his dad he felt sorry for him and wondered, "what it must have been like to have been raised under such a tyrant" (164). This shows he is starting to like Sedgewick just a little bit because he realizes Sedgewick was probably treated like he (Hundert) was.

8. The character of Hundert develops further through his interaction with Senator Bell because we learn he isn't as tough as he at first seems to be. He doesn't hate Sedgewick as much as he claims and actually feels sorry for him and also we see him vulnerable for the first time. He says his "hands trembled" (161)and was "frightened" (162) and it hurts him when the Senator "cut him" (164).

Today we will:

• Use Your Annotating Bookmark to annotate pages 164-168 of The Palace Thief

(If you need "baby steps" just start with underlining important phrases, using question marks for things that confuse you, and exclamation points for something you think sounds important)

• Use evidence (specific lines from the reading) to answer text-based questions on pages 164-168 of The Palace Thief (This will be graded at the end of class)