Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Best Seller

The students will be completing the following assignments over the next 2 days:

“Best Seller” chapters 1-2

Vocab-
Tepid
Philistine

How does the narrator know Pescud? Describe Pescud.

What is Pescud’s opinion of best sellers? Be specific.

Who is Trevelyan?

List 2 problems Pescud has with the story he is reading.

“Best Seller” chapters 3-4

How does Pescud know what trains the young lady took and where they went through?

What is important about the girl’s family?

What is peculiar about the mansion?

What do the racial comments tell you about the time this story was written?

Why does the narrator call him Trevelyan? Why is this ironic?

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