Chapter 6 , The Hundred Dresses - IIEl Bsor Ester AnimalsWalt Whitman
Oral Comprehension Check 1
1. What did Mr Petronski's letter say ?
Answer :- Mr petronski's letter was to inform the principal and Miss Mason that Wanda would not come to school as she was fed up of being builded in the school. They were going to shift to a bigger place where nobody would make fun of last name.
2. Is Miss Mason angry with the class, or is she unhappy and upset ?
Answer :- Miss Mason seems to be unhappy and upset rather than angry because she had never expected such behavior from the students. She wants everyone to think about it and asks them not to do mistreat anyone in the class.
3. How dose Maddie feel after listening to the note from Wanda's father ?
Answer :- Maddie feels sorry and embarrassed for the behavior although she Herself did not make fun of Wanda. She never tried to stop Peggy to do so and remained a silent viewer. She feels as a coward .
4. What dose Maddie Want to do ?
Answer :- Maddie Wants to amend her behavior towards Wanda. She wants to meet her to apologies. She decides to find Wanda at her house at Boggins Heights. She also wanted to convey that they never wanted to hurt Wanda and people really lover her .
Oral Comprehension Check 2
1. What excuses dose Peggy think up for her behavior ? Why ?
Answer :- Peggy tries to defend herself by saying that her behavior towards Wanda made her to think about the hundred dresses and sketch them. According to Peggy Wanda was able to win the drawing contest because of her testing.
2. What are Maddie's thoughts as they go to Boggins Heights ?
Answer :- Maddie was feeling ashamed and sorry for being a silent spectator while Peggy humiliated Wanda. She was feeling upset for Wanda. She was also repenting for not stopping Peggy for behavior badly with Wanda.
3. Why does Wanda's house remind Maddie of Wanda's blue dress ?
Answer :- Wanda's house was sparse, old faded but neat and clean like her blue dress which was faded and shabby but clean that she wore everyday to school. Thus Maddie was reminded of the same old dress.
4. What dose Maddie hard about ? What important decision dose she come to ?
Answer :- Maddie thinks about not to be mute spectator anymore that she had been in case of Wanda. She promised herself about not letting Any injustice happen to anyone even if she would have to lose a friend I this.
3. Oral Comprehension Check
1. What did girls write to Wanda ?
Answer :- Maddie and peggy wrote a friendly letter to Wanda. They Wanted to apologies for their behavior but they ended up asking. Her whether she liked her new school and teacher. They informed her that she has won the drawing contest. They praised her drawing skill and also told how much other students liked her art. The letter was just a usual letter one may write to a good friend.
2. Did they a reply ? Who was more anxious for a reply, Peggy or Maddie ? How do you know ?
Answer :- No Peggy and Maddie didn't get a reply from Wanda. Maddie was more anxious for a reply than Peggy because she was very upset and feeling sade for Wanda. She had assumed that Wanda was deeply hurt so she was not replying and blamed herself for everything. Maddie used to have sleepless night and she always thought about Wanda.
3. How did the girls know that Wanda liked them even though they had teased her ?
Answer :- Both Maddie and Peggy realised that Wanda liked them although they had teased her because she had gifted them her tow beautiful dresses. A green one with red trimmings to Peggy and blue one to Maddie. She had even drawn their faces in the painting of the dresses they got .
Thinking about the Text
1. Why do you think Wanda's family moved to a different city ? Do you think life there was going to be different for their family ?
Answer :- Wanda's family moved to a different city due to the insulting behavior of students towards Wanda and her brother. They were teased by other students for their funny name and blue dress. Life there in a different city because according to the Wanda's father there were plenty of such names in that city and no one would make fun of such names in that city and no one would make fun of them there.
2. Maddie thought her silence was as bad as Peggy's teasing . Was she right ?
Answer :- Yes, Maddie thought that her silence was as bad as Peggy's teasing because it is often said that turning a blind eye to a crime is worse than committing a crime. So by being silent she indirectly encourage Peggy to do so.
3. Peggy says, "I never thought she had the sense to know we were making fun of her anyway. I thought she was too dumb. And gee. Look how she can draw !" What led Peggy to believe that Wanda was dumb ? Did she change her her opinion letter ?
Answer :- Wanda never replied to Peggy's misbehavior and pranks that faced everyday so, her neutral face and unusual behavior led Peggy to think that Wanda was dumb. Wanda even described the hundred dresses she said about though she wore the same old faded blue dress everyday Yes later Peggy changed her opinion about Wanda after having a Peggy changed her opinion about Wanda after having a look on Wanda's asketches and also her gesture of gifting her a beautiful drawing from those hundred sketches.
4. What important decision did Maddie make ? Why did she have to think hard to do so ?
Answer :- Maddie decided to go to Wanda's house in Boggins Height with Peggy to apologies and amend her behavior for all the ill-treatment done by them, but Wanda had left her house with her family already. Maddie was upset because she thought she acted like a coward as she promised herself that she would not let any injustice or bullying happen to anyone even if it meant to lose her close friend while doing so .
5. Why do you think Wanda gave Maddie and peggy the drawings of the dresses ?
Why are they surprised ?
Answer :- when Maddie and peggy wrote a letter to Wanda, she might have understood their feelings behind their letter and during the dresses game, she had observed both of them so she requested Miss Mason to give two of her drawing to them and had taught them a lesson of life. Maddie and peggy were surprised as she gifted them the drawing with their faces.
6. Do you think Wanda really thought the girls were teasing her ? Why or why not ?
Answer :- Yes, Wanda was aware of the misbehavior of the girls who teased her everyday at school but she chose to remain silent. She exaggerated to have a hundred dresses and sixty pairs of matching shoes in her closet. She taught them a lesson of life by the drawing the sketches of the hundred beautiful dress she claimed to have and later asked Miss Mason to give the dresses to the girls of the class.
Thinking about the Text
I. Here are thirty adjectives describing human qualities. Discuss them with your partner and put them in the two word webs (given below) according to whether you think they show positive or negative qualities. You can consult a dictionary if you are not sure of the meanings of some of the words. You may also add to the list the positive or negative 'pair' of a given word.
Answer :-
Word meaning positive/negative
insipid :- Devoid of qualities that Make for spirit and character :- Negative
timid :- Lacking in course or self confidence :- Negative
placid :- Not easily upset or excited :- positive
cruel :- Devoid of humane feelings :- Negative
haughty :- Arrogantly superior :- Negative
proud :- Feeling deep pleasure or Satisfaction as a result of one's own achievements :- Negative
intrepid :- Fearless :- positive
sensitive :- Having or displaying a quick and delicate Appreciation of others feeling :- positive
introverted :- Quiet and reserved :- Negative
stolid :- Calm, dependable and Showing little emotion :- Negative
cheerful :- Noticeably happy and optimistic :- positive
contented :- Feeling or expressing Happiness or satisfaction :- positive
thoughtless :- without consideration Possible consequences :- Negative
vain :- Excessively proud :- Negative
friendly :- kind and pleasant :- positive
unforgiving :- Unwilling or unable to Forgive :- Negative
fashionable :- wearing clothes and doing things that are concerned stylish :- positive
lonely :- Sad because one has no friends or company :- Negative
determined :- Having made a firm decision and being resolved not to change it :- positive
complacent :- Overly content :- Negative
II. What adjectives can we use to describe Peggy, Wanda and Maddie ? You can choose adjectives from the list above. You can also add some of your own.
1. Peggy ___________________
Answer : - Thoughtless, Sarcastic, Unforgiving, Arrogant, Haughty, Proud, Vain.
2. Wanda ___________________
Answer :-
Kind Generous Lonely
Courteous Friendly Compassionate
Introverted Intrepid Determined
Talented Sensitive Creative
3. Maddie __________________
Answer :- Insipid , Miserable, Timid, Sensitive, Placid Stoil.
III. Find the sentences in the story with the following phrasal verbs.
Answers :- (1) Line up She thought of the glowing picture of those hundred dresses all Lined up in the
Answer :- (2) thought up :- Peggy who had thought up this game and Maddie her inseparable friend were always the last to leave.
Answer :- (3) took off :- Miss Mason took off her glasses, blow on them and wiped them on her soft white .
Answer :- (4) stood by :- she had stood by silently and that was just as bad as what Peggy had done.
IV. Colours are used to describe feelings, moods and emotions. Match the following 'Colour expressions' with moods and emotions. Match the following 'Colour expressions ' with a suggested paraphrase.
Answer :- (i) the Monday morning blues :- sadness or depression after a weekend of fun .
(ii) go red in the face :- feel embrassed / angry / ashamed.
(iii) look green :- feel very sick, as if about to vomit.
(iv) the red carpet :- a special welcome.
(v) blue - blooded :- of noble birth or from a royal family.
(vi) a green belt :- land around a town or city where construction is prohibited by law.
(vi) a blackguard :- a dishonest person with no sense of right or wrong.
(viii) a great area :- an area of a subject or a situation where matters are not very clear.
(ix) a white flag :- a sing of surrender or acceptance of defeat; a wish to stop fighting.
(x) a blueprint :- a photographyc print of building plans; a detailed plan or scheme.
(xi) red-handed :- in an unlawful act; while doing something wrong.
(xii) the green light :- the sign or permission to being an action.
Writing
1. Look again at the letter which Wanda's father writes to Miss Mason, Wanda's teacher. Mr petronski is not quite aware how to write a formal letter in English. Can you rewrite it more appropriately ?
Answer :-
Dear Teacher:
My Wanda will not cone to school any more. Jake
also. Not we move away to big city. No more holler 'pollack'.
No more ask why name. Plenty of funny names in the big city.
Yours big city
Yours truly,
Jan petronski
My children, Wanda and Jake petronski will not come to school going forward as we are shifting to a big city soon. They were expected to derogatory remarks due to their long and unfamiliar name in school. I'm hoping no one would complain of our polish descent in the new city or make fun of our last name as there are plenty of funny names in the city
Yours truly,
Jan petronski
Animals
1. Notice the use of the word 'turm' in the first line, "I think I could turn and live with Animals .....". What is the poet turning from ?
Answer :- in this line here, the poet wants to turn from human into an animal this Turing is symbolic of the poet's detachment from human beings and their nature and his appreciation of the animal kind.
2. Mention there things that humans do and animals don't.
Answer :- Animals do not cry and complain over their conditions. They do not . Commit sins and therefore do not weep for them. They are also very satisfied creatures and have no desire to possess material things. Humans on sins-and are affected with the madness of owing things.
3. Do humans kneel to other humans who lived thousands of years ago ? Discuss this in groups ?
Answer :- yes, humans kneel to other human who lived thousands of years ago due to cultural traditions or religious beliefs, they fold their hands in humanity and worship their ancestors to show respect by kneeling sown In front of their portrait.
4. What are the 'tokens' that the poet says he may have dropped long ago, and which the animals have kept foe him ? Discuss this in class. (Hint: Whitman belongs to the Ramantic tradition that includes Rousseau and true nature. What could be the basic aspects of our natura as living beings that humans choose to ignore or deny ?)
Answer :- The tokens mentioned by the poet in the poem indicate the symbols of the true nature of human beings. He intend to covery that humans have lost their natural instincts and moved away from the tokens of virtue such as containment, honesty and innocence. They become more self-centered and the desire to process worldly pleasures took over their minds. They lost their humane touch in due course of time. On the contrary, Animals have always carried forward their real instincs and continue to do so . The poet poet looks at those characteristics and wonders where he had negligently lost his true nature.
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