Posted: November 13, 2015
If you missed the test on Acts 4 and 5, you will write it Monday at noon. Finsh reading the first 28 pages of The Old Man and the Sea for Monday. Complete the following:
The Old Man and the
Sea pages 9-25
1. State the first line of the novel. What does it say about
the individual and the
world?
2. What does “salao” mean? What role does it play in life?
3. Who is Santiago?
Describe him.
4. How old was the young boy when Santiago first took
him on a boat? Describe
the relationship between
Santiago
and Manolin.
5. Describe Santiago’s home (p. 15).
6. In what month do the great fish come?
7. Who would Santiago like to take fishing? Why?
8. Describe Santiago’s dreams (pp.24/25).
9. Name at least 5 things that Santiago never dreams of.
Key Quotes:
"There was no
cast net and the boy remembered when
they had sold it. But they went through this fiction every
day.
There was no pot of yellow rice and fish and the boy
knew this too." (p. 16)
Vocabulary
Define the following:
gaff (9) benevolent
(9) block and tackle (11)
subdue (15)
guana (15) bodega
(17) resolution (23) furled
(26) skiff (27)