June 26--Last Day & 1/2 Day

Summer School begins July 7th. 

See you at Manhattan School for Career Development 

located on 113 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003 

@ 8:30AM. 

Have a restful week you deserve it!!!

June 25

In case you left your copy at school, June Novel : the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime

Homework: Please complete 1 or 2 options.

Option 1: Please answer  the question below in 5 sentences. 

Option 2: Please answer the question below in 5 sentences  with evidence from the text to justified your answers and please include your opinion as well. 

Questions: 
What challenges does The Curious Incident present to the ways we  usually think and talk about characters in novels? How does it force us  to reexamine our normal ideas about love and desire, which are often  the driving forces in fiction? Since Mark Haddon has chosen to make us  see the world through Christopher's eyes, what does he help us discover about ourselves?

June 24

In case you left your copy at school, June Novel : the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime

Homework: Please complete 1 or 2 options.

Option 1: Please answer  the question below in 5 sentences. 

Option 2: Please answer the question below in 5 sentences  with evidence from the text to justified your answers and please include your opinion as well. 

Questions: 
Christopher likes the idea of a world with no people in it (p. 2); he contemplates the end of the world when the universe collapses (pp. 10–11); he dreams of  being an astronaut, alone in space (pp. 50–51), and that a virus has carried off everyone a the only people left are "special people like me" (pp. 198–200). Christopher often fantasize about being the only person left in the world. What is comforting about fantasizing about 

being the only person left in the world? 

June 23

In case you left your copy at school, June Novel : the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime

Homework: Please complete 1 or 2 options.

Option 1: Please answer  the question below in 5 sentences. 

Option 2: Please answer the question below in 5 sentences  with evidence from the text to justified your answers and please include your opinion as well. 

Questions: 

1. Why does Christopher say that he “doesn’t like new places” (140)?  See p. 143 as well.

June 22

In case you left your copy at school, June Novel : the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime

Homework: Please complete 1 or 2 options.

Option 1: Please answer  the question below in 5 sentences. 

Option 2: Please answer the question below in 5 sentences  with evidence from the text to justified your answers and please include your opinion as well. 

Questions: 

1. The “truth” is very important to Christopher. When he shares information with us about Orion and other constellations, he says, “And that is the truth” (126).  How does Christopher react when the truth becomes grey or fuzzy?

June 22--Parent Support

June 19

In case you left your copy at school, June Novel : the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime

Homework: Please complete 1 or 2 options.

Option 1: Please answer  the question below in 5 sentences. 

Option 2: Please answer the question below in 5 sentences  with evidence from the text to justified your answers and please include your opinion as well. 

Questions: 

1. To what extent does Christopher develop new tools for being in the world, other than the ones he already has, in order to solve problems that his usual behavior does not permit him to solve? What specific passages/events show the reader how Christopher is changing in his own way to meet the demands of his life?
1. “The mind is just a complicated machine,” says Christopher (p. 116). How does Christopher adjust to the complicated world around him by also adjusting the “complicated machine” of his mind?