One day down and just four more to go this week. Here are your reminders for Wednesday's class.
Honors English II
Tonight you have an online reflection due for class. Please either e-mail your response to me, complete it as a comment on this post, or complete a written response on paper and turn it in at the beginning of class on Wednesday. Here is the prompt -
What is one element of upper class Russian culture which you understand from reading "A Problem" by Anton Chekhov? Is this element of the culture important or unimportant? How do you know?
Furthermore, if you did not turn in your vocabulary today at the end of class you MUST submit it for a grade on Wednesday.
ESL English III
Tonight for homework you should continue working on your vocabulary and your reading skills. I would suggest that you practice your skills of annotating by applying them to another text you are reading right now.
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Reading the short story "A Problem" by Anton Chekhov has made me understand the family honor element of upper class Russian culture. We know family honor is important because it is discussed many times throughout the story. Honor determines the way the uncles think and the point of views they have. The family honor had to be saved and was a very important thing to the uncles. They were even willing to let Sasha get away with his crime to preserve the honor. I was not aware of this element of Russian culture before reading "A Problem".
- Rachel Sauls
2B
One element of upper class Russian culture I understood from reading "A Problem" by Anton Chekhov would be Crime. Crime is an imporant element of culture because if you commit a crime in a wealthy family you are dishonoring the family name. You know Crime is an imporant element because it is the focal point of "A Problem" by Anton Chekhov. Crime is an important element because it is the reason why the family is having this meeting, with Sasha. He committed a crime of theft and forgery and is now being called a criminal because of his horrible decisions. Sasha's Ivan was describing him because he was a Criminal, but Sasha fails to realize that at the moment. Sasha was given a chance to change from his evil and undesirable ways, but did not take the oppurtunity to change. There for at the He realized he was criminal and continued to act as one. I was unaware of how crimes affected other families culture throughour the world.
* Makenzie Elam, B2 *
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One element of upper-class Russian culture that I understand from reading “A Problem” is the importance of family honor. In the story it is shown to be important because of the way it is mentioned. In the story it is mentioned as being the line between being wrong and being right. If you uphold the family honor you are in the right, but on the other hand if you don’t care about family honor you are in the wrong. The conflict of Sasha with the false I.O.U. falls to the side of disobeying family honor.
One aspect of upper class Russian culture I understand from "A Problem" by Chekhov is the importance of honour, and the lengths a family would go to to maintain the honour of their family. Even if by maintaining the family honour they are dishonouring the individual.
The aspect of upper class Russian culture that I now understand more by reading "A Problem" by Anton Chekhov is the importance of family honor. The whole story surrounds the question "To save family honor? or to abandon it?" Family honor is the driving factor of the different uncles arguments which shows that it must be very important to them. The reason that I now understand that family honor is so important to upper class Russian culture is because the uncles forgave Sasha for his crime just to preserve the family honor. The fact that the uncles DID forgive Sasha makes it clear that the uncles had a VERY strong interest in saving the honor which would have been lost if they sent Sasha to trial. I never realized that family honor played such a driving role in upper class Russian culture.
The aspect of upper class Russian culture that I now understand more by reading "A Problem" by Anton Chekhov is the importance of family honor. The whole story surrounds the question "To save family honor? or to abandon it?" Family honor is the driving factor of the different uncles arguments which shows that it must be very important to them. The reason that I now understand that family honor is so important to upper class Russian culture is because the uncles forgave Sasha for his crime just to preserve the family honor. The fact that the uncles DID forgive Sasha makes it clear that the uncles had a VERY strong interest in saving the honor which would have been lost if they sent Sasha to trial. I never realized that family honor played such a driving role in upper class Russian culture.
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