Group Questions on the Church : You May Work in Groups (4 Max)

Group Questions on “The Church”: You may work in groups (4 max). Discuss and answer the following in complete sentences. Use specific details and clear explanations to support your responses. 1. What is the specific subject in this description? 2. Explain the significance of the title. What is the author trying to convey through the title? 3. How are the girls (cheerleaders) portrayed by the author? Explain the significance of the following images/diction: (What associations/feelings do they evoke? What is the effect of these associations/feelings in the context of the passage?) a. Girls in dark skirts and white blouses sit in ranks and scream in concert. b. Orange and black paper c. Barely pubescent d. Bloomers 4. Gass uses details that evoke images of a pagan ritual. Find two details/descriptions that he uses to evoke images of a pagan ritual and clearly explain how they do this. Finally, explain the purpose for Gass’s use of evocative images of a pagan ritual. 5. Gass’s description of the inanimate objects in the description, specifically the basketball court and the basketball, evoke images of Christianity. Find two detail/descriptions that evoke images of Christianity and explain how they do this. Finally, explain the purpose for Gass’s use of Christian imagery to describe these inanimate objects. 6. What is Gass’ purpose in the 2nd to last line in the essay? What is he trying to convey? 7. What is the significance of the last sentence? (What is Gass’s tone?) Explain/Support.

Group Questions on “The Church”: You may work in groups (4 max). Discuss and answer the following in complete sentences. Use specific details and clear explanations to support your responses. 1. What is the specific subject in this description? 2. Explain the significance of the title. What is the author trying to convey through the title? 3. How are the girls (cheerleaders) portrayed by the author? Explain the significance of the following images/diction: (What associations/feelings do they evoke? What is the effect of these associations/feelings in the context of the passage?) a. Girls in dark skirts and white blouses sit in ranks and scream in concert. b. Orange and black paper c. barely pubescent d. bloomers 4. Gass uses details that evoke images of a pagan ritual. Find two details/descriptions that he uses to evoke images of a pagan ritual and clearly explain how they do this. Finally, explain the purpose for Gass’s use of evocative images of a pagan ritual. (How does it cause the reader to view the basketball game and its audience?) 5. Gass’s description of the inanimate objects in the description, specifically the basketball court and the basketball, evoke images of Christianity. Find two detail/descriptions that evoke images of Christianity and explain how they do this. Finally, explain the purpose for Gass’s use of Christian imagery to describe these inanimate objects. (How does it cause the reader to view the basketball game and its audience?) 6. What is Gass’ purpose in the 2nd to last line in the essay? What is he trying to convey? 7. What is the significance of the last sentence? (What is Gass’s tone?) Explain/Support.