UNIT TWELVE RESOURCE EMCParadigm Publishing Saint Paul, Minnesota Staff Credits Editorial Design Laurie Skiba Shelley Clubb Editor Production Manager Brenda Owens C. Vern Johnson Associate Editor Senior Designer Lori Ann Coleman Parkwood Composition Associate Editor Compositor Diana Moen Associate Editor Gia Marie Garbinsky Assistant Editor Jennifer Joline Anderson Assistant Editor Janice Johnson Curriculum Specialist Paul Spencer Art and Photo Researcher Chris Bohen Editorial Assistant Katherine S. Link Editorial Assistant Marie Couillard Editorial Consultant Cover Credits Cover Designer: C. Vern Johnson The Human Condition, 1934. Rene Magritte. The Farm, 1921–1922. Joan Miró. The Persistence of Memory, 1931. Salvador Dali. ISBN 0-8219-2159-2 © 2001 EMC Corporation All rights reserved. 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Published by EMC/Paradigm Publishing 875 Montreal Way St. Paul, Minnesota 55102 800-328-1452 www.emcp.com E-mail: [email protected] Printed in the United States of America. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 XXX 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 Contents Selection Worksheet 12.1: “House Taken Over” . 1 Selection Check Test 4.12.1 . 9 Selection Test 4.12.2 . 11 Selection Worksheet 12.2: “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” . 16 Selection Check Test 4.12.3 . 24 Selection Test 4.12.4 . 26 Selection Worksheet 12.3: “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” . 32 Selection Check Test 4.12.5 . 41 Selection Test 4.12.6 . 43 Selection Worksheet 12.4: “The Pedestrian” . 48 Selection Check Test 4.12.7 . 55 Selection Test 4.12.8 . 57 Selection Worksheet 12.5: “By the Waters of Babylon” . .62 Selection Check Test 4.12.9 . 70 Selection Test 4.12.10 . 72 Selection Worksheet 12.6: The Hitchhiker . 78 Selection Check Test 4.12.11 . 86 Selection Test 4.12.12 . 88 Unit 12 Review/Study Guide . 93 Unit 12 Test . 104 Answer Key . 115 Name________________________________________ Class_____________________ Date ____________________ Selection Worksheet 12.1 “House Taken Over,” page 917 READER RESPONSE ACTIVITIES Graphic Organizer, page 917 On the cluster chart below, list facts that contribute to the mood of the story. One example has been done for you. Irene turned down suitors for no particular reason Mood Reader’s Journal, page 917 What is your favorite room in your house? © EMC UNDERSTANDING LITERATURE UNIT 12 RESOURCE 1 Name________________________________________ Class_____________________ Date ____________________ Guided Reading Questions PAGE 918 Who lived in the house before the narrator and his sister Irene? What was it that kept both the narrator and his sister from getting married? What plans do the narrator and his sister have for the house? How does Irene spend most of her days? PAGE 919 How do they earn their living? PAGE 920 What part of the house do they live in? What does the narrator hear in the other part of the house? What does he do in response to the sound? PAGE 921 Why is it difficult to be restricted to one part of the house? What is good about being restricted to one part of the house? What do they gradually stop doing as they live in their part of the house? 2 UNIT 12 RESOURCE UNDERSTANDING LITERATURE © EMC Name________________________________________ Class_____________________ Date ____________________ PAGE 922 In what part of the house do they remain silent? What happens to Irene’s knitting? What does the narrator do after he locks the front door? Respond to the Selection, page 922 What or who do you think took over the house? INVESTIGATE, INQUIRE, AND IMAGINE, PAGE 924 Recall Interpret 1a. What does the narrator do after he hears the 1b. Why do you think he reacts this way? What is first sounds in the house? he afraid of? 2a. Exactly how does Cortázar describe the sounds 2b. Why do you think Cortázar uses these particu- that the narrator hears? lar details to describe the sounds? What mean- ing is he trying to get at here? 3a. What is Irene doing throughout most of the 3b. What is the significance of her knitting an story? entire bureau full of clothes, which is obviously far more than she and her brother can use? © EMC UNDERSTANDING LITERATURE UNIT 12 RESOURCE 3 Name________________________________________ Class_____________________ Date ____________________ Analyze Synthesize 4a. What evidence do you see in the story that the 4b. Why is the house being taken over? What brother and sister are satisfied with the way warning is the author giving us about our own things are in their lives? Cite evidence from the lives? story to support your answer. Evaluate Extend 5a. Do you think the narrator’s ancestors would 5b. Read the poem “House” by Pablo Neruda. In approve of the life he is leading in this house? what ways is the house in the poem like the Explain your answer. house in “House Taken Over”? Use details from both the story and poem to support your answer. UNDERSTANDING LITERATURE, PAGE 924 SETTING. How does the setting reflect the meaning of “House Taken Over”? MOOD. Review the cluster chart you completed for the Graphic Organizer. What is the mood of the story? 4 UNIT 12 RESOURCE UNDERSTANDING LITERATURE © EMC Name________________________________________ Class_____________________ Date ____________________ WRITER’S JOURNAL, PAGE 925 1. Imagine that you are the narrator and you have just received a letter from a friend asking how you are and what you are up to. Write a letter answering your friend’s questions. 2. Imagine you are Irene. Write the journal entry that you might have written following the first sign of the house being taken over. 3. Write a description of a location, paying attention to describing the mood you want to convey. © EMC UNDERSTANDING LITERATURE UNIT 12 RESOURCE 5 Name________________________________________ Class_____________________ Date ____________________ INTEGRATING THE LANGUAGE ARTS, PAGE 925 Language, Grammar, and Style LINKING VERBS. Read the Language Arts Survey 3.10, “Linking Verbs.” Then identify the linking verb in each of the following sentences. 1. At the beginning of the story, the narrator and his sister are ready to move into the house. 2. They appear complacent about life. 3. They remain isolated in one wing of the house when the other section of the house is taken over. 4. At first they seem unaffected by the new occupants. 5. Do they leave the house because they grow afraid of the occupants? Study and Research & Media Literacy RESEARCHING SURREALISM. Using the library or the Internet, research the artistic movement of Surrealism. Who began the movement? What were its basic ideas, and where did they come from? How is it possi- ble to recognize a surreal literary or artistic work? Who were the movement’s most famous artists? What aspects of “House Taken Over” are surreal? Use the research log below to record your findings and to note the sources you consulted. Then, on your own paper, write a report to present to the class. Research Log Research Findings on Surrealism: 6 UNIT 12 RESOURCE UNDERSTANDING LITERATURE © EMC Name________________________________________ Class_____________________ Date ____________________ Sources Used: © EMC UNDERSTANDING LITERATURE UNIT 12 RESOURCE 7 Name________________________________________ Class_____________________ Date ____________________ Vocabulary CONNOTATION AND DENOTATION. The denotation of a word is its dictionary definition, while its connotation is all the associations it has in addition to its literal meaning. The mood of a piece of litera- ture is determined in part by the connotations of the vocabulary chosen. Pretend you have been asked to help Paul Blackburn translate “House Taken Over” from the original Spanish. Your job is to reflect on the underlined Words for Everyday Use in the passages below, and sug- gest two synonyms with different connotations for each vocabulary word. EXAMPLE It was pleasant to take lunch and commune with the great hollow, silent house, and it was enough for us just to keep it clean. commune: subsist, communicate 1. We were easing into our forties with the unvoiced concept that the quiet, simple marriage of sister and brother was the indispensable end to a line established in this house by our grandparents. indispensable: 2. But Irene was only interested in the knitting and showed a wonderful dexterity, and for me the hours slipped away watching her, her hands like silver sea-urchins, needles flashing . dexterity: 3. I hurled myself against the door before it was too late and shut it, leaned on it with the weight of my body; luckily, the key was on our side; moreover, I ran the great bolt into place, just to be safe. hurl: 4. Irene said that in my sleep I flailed about enormously and shook the blankets off. flail: 5. Irene noticed how brusquely I had paused, and came up beside me without a word. brusquely: 8 UNIT 12 RESOURCE UNDERSTANDING LITERATURE © EMC Name________________________________________ Class_____________________ Date ____________________ Selection Check Test 4.12.1 “House Taken Over” CHECKING YOUR READING Short Answer 1. Who lives with the narrator in the huge, old house, and what do the two of them intend to do with the house eventually? 2. What do the two inhabitants of the house do all day? What does the narrator say they eventually live without doing? 3. How do the two earn their money? 4. Why does the narrator have to close off the back part of the house? 5. What finally happens to the house at the end of the story? What do the narrator and Irene do? © EMC UNDERSTANDING LITERATURE UNIT 12 RESOURCE 9 Name________________________________________ Class_____________________ Date ____________________ VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT Sentence Completion Fill in each blank with the most appropriate word from the following Words for Everyday Use from “House Taken Over.” You may not use every word, and you may have to change the tense of some words.