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__**8/6, Tuesday**__
Here are the summaries, questions and vocaublary for chapters 28 & 29.

**__3/6 Thursday__**
Here are the questions for chapter 22 & 23 that you are to answer. Read the information on this attached worksheet, as well, for chapter 24 before reading it.



__26/5 Wednesday__
Here are the summaries and questions for chapters 20-22. Please read the summaries before you read each chapter. After that, if you are able to answer the questions after reading the chapter, then you have understood what you have read. If you cannot do so, then you need to reread the chapter over again to gain solid understanding. Work on looking up the vocabulary words as well to enhance your understanding.



__**21/5 Friday:**__
Once you complete reading chapter 16, go on to read chapter 17. Read the summary first. From there you can answer the questions, and work through the vocabulary.



12/5, Wednesday
Please read chapters 14 & 15. Be an active reader; highlight words and phrases that you don't understand. Look up the meaning of words and re-read each chapter until you can retale the story to another person including all the important details. From there answer the following questions from chapter 14: **__QUESTIONS__** 1. How is Tom’s dream ironic, given his current situation? 2. Why does Twain belabor the dressing process? How must Tom feel about this whole experience? 3. Why is Tom’s suggestion about moving the royal household to a smaller place, to deal with the financial problems, scoffed (laughed) at? 4. How does Tom feel about the actual ruling of a country? What statement is Twain trying to make about government? 5. How is the whipping boy’s predicament (situation) ironic? 6. What are the lords trying to show the subjects by having “Edward” dine in public? • asunder (84) • illustrious (86) • morrow (86) • aggrandizements (87) • brevity (88) • perplexedly (89) • annulled (90) • peradventure (90)
 * __VOCABULARY__**

__11/5, Tuesday__
Here is our //Prince and the Pauper// Schedule up until the end of the year. Remember is is subject to change so do pay attention in class to any adjustments that we may have to make:



__10/5, Monday__
Please read the following summary worksheet for chapters 11-13 before you read the chapters themselves. This will help you with understanding the main issues of the chapter, learn the vocabulary words from the chapter and help you to answer the questions that will be addressed. Here is the worksheet for you:

**__Summary__**
==Henry VIII realizes he is dying but wants to make sure the Duke of Norfolk goes first. He resolves to go before Parliament to seal the warrant but suffers a spell and is unable to go. In order for the Lord Chancellor to carry out the king’s request, to see Norfolk’s severed head before he dies, the Lord Chancellor must have the Seal, which Henry gave to the prince.== ==Hertford goes to Tom to get the Seal, but Tom has no idea where or what it is. The king falls asleep, and Hertford awaits the king’s orders. When the king wakes, he berates Hertford for not having carried out his request and demands that the small, portable Seal be used to carry out his command.==

• miter (51)
= = =Chapter 7: Summary, questions & vocabulary= Tom goes through the ordeal of getting prepared for dinner. He makes mistakes natural to someone who has not learned courtly manners, which confirms the rumors of “Edward’s” illness. Tom’s nose itch is treated like a minor crisis; he believes he is not to scratch it himself. Tom drinks the finger bowl of rose water and leaves before the blessing. In his chambers he tries on a suit of armor and cracks nuts that he stole from the dinner table. He finds a collection of books, one on the etiquette of the English court, and begins to read.
 * __SUMMARY__**

1. Why does Twain spend such a long time detailing the process of getting prepared for dinner? Why are so many servants present? 2. What are the “Grand Hereditaries”? What purpose do they serve? For what purpose does Twain include them? 3. Why hasn’t Twain written about Edward in these last few chapters? How do these chapters illuminate Edward’s back ground and character, even though he’s not there?
 * __QUESTIONS__**

• vagaries (46) • sumptuous (48) • zeal (48)
 * __VOCABULARY__**
 * __Notes:__**
 * Note that Twain mentions that lettuce and turnips are new delicacies (46). What else would be “new” to the English table during the 1500s?
 * Semicolon mini lesson: Twain uses the semicolon frequently in dialogue throughout this chapter. Collect sentences using the semicolon and determine the rule for the correct usage of a semicolon.

Chapter 6: Summary, questions & vocabulary
Tom is present at a council meeting of all the nobility and has no idea how to proceed. The Lord St. John asks that everyone else be dismissed except for Hertford, St. John, and the “prince.” When the others leave, St. John discusses the king’s plan to help keep Tom out of the public eye, on account of his “illness.” Hertford passes word of this on to Edward’s sisters, and St. John covers for him on many issues of propriety. Lady Jane speaks to Tom in Greek, but he cannot understand, and Elizabeth covers for him by replying. At the king’s banquet, Hertford and St. John cover for Tom most of the evening and prompt him to leave when things get too rough. The guardians then discuss “Edward’s” madness, and the effect madness has had on the crown in history. St. John has misgivings about Tom actually being the prince. Hertford doubts Tom as well, but because he feels that most impostors would be demanding that they were the prince, he attributes Tom’s behavior to madness.

1. What comment is Twain making about royal life in this chapter? Who makes the decisions? 2. Why is English royalty so dependent upon ceremony? Find examples of rituals/protocol in this chapter and explain the importance of each. To what extent are they necessary? Why do they exist? 3. Why does Tom insist he is not the prince? What does this show about his character? Why do others not believe him?
 * __QUESTIONS__**

• [|vigilant] (40) •[| giddy] (41) • [|exaltation] (44)
 * __VOCABULARY__**

“They felt much as if they were piloting a great ship through a dangerous channel; they were on alert constantly, and found their office no child’s play.” (41)
 * __QUOTATION__**

Chapter Three: Mini Lesson on Tranlations
Converting Edward's courtly words from Modern English into Modern-Modern English and developing definitions for these courtly expressions:

1. "Thy pardon, I had not meant to laugh. But thy good Nan and thy Bet shall have rainment and lackeys enow, and that soon too; my cofferer shall look to it. No, thank me not; 'tis nothing. Thou speakest well; thou has an easy grace in it. Art learned?"

2. " Marry, that would not I mislike. Tell me more!"

3. "Oh, prithee say no more; 'tis glorious! If that I could but clothe me in rainment like to thine, and strip my feet, and revel in the mud once, just once, with none to rebuke me or forbid, meseemeth I could forgo the crown!"

4. "Oh, wouldst like it? Then so shall it be. Doff thy rags and don these splendors, lad! It is a brief happiness, but will be not less keen for that. We will have it while we may, and change again before any come to molest."

5. The soldiers presented arms with their halberds, opened the gates, and presented again as the little Prince of Poverty passed in, in hi fluttering rags, to join hands with the Prince of Limitless Plenty."