FIRST READ EXTENSION QUESTIONS

The Necklace

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Name: Carlos Delgado Date: 12/1/2020

The Necklace
Guy de Maupassant

DIRECTIONS: Complete the following items after you have read the text.
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RL.9-10.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over
the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details;
provide an objective summary of the text.

1. (a) Determine a theme of a text and analyze its development over the course
of the text.

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Identify a theme, or insight about life, conveyed in “The Necklace.” Then, explain
how the theme is shaped by specific details over the course of the story.

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There could be multiple themes for this story, but I'm only going with one. The one

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I'm going with is greed, Madam Loisel wanted a lot of things, but she couldn't really afford

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everything that she wanted because she is in a lower social class.
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(b) Provide an objective summary of a text.
Write an objective summary of “The Necklace” that includes main ideas and
important details but not your own opinions or judgments.
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The main idea of " The Necklace" was that your own greed can lead to your downfall
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as a person physically and mentally. Madam Loisel was so greedy that she let other
peoples point of view make her decisions. For example, the dress that she had wore one
the day of the ball. She could have worn the dress that the husband liked, but instead
bought a new dress that she probably has only worn on the day of the ball. Another
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examle is when Madam Lousile and her husband were getting out of the ball. The
husband had suggest that she wear a jacket because it was cold outside, She risked
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getting a cold just for the opinion of her in public.

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RL.9-10.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including
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figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on
meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal
or informal tone).

2. (a) Determine the meaning of words as they are used in a text.

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Reread paragraph 100 of “The Necklace.” What is the meaning of the word
fortitude as it is used in the second sentence of the paragraph?
It seems like that word mean soemthing to do with some sort of pain.

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(b) Determine the meaning of words 2 as they are used in a text, including
connotative meanings.
What connotation does the word fortitude have as it is used in paragraph 100?
Explain your answer.

The connontation that the word fortitude has is it is going to be bad.

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Author’s Choices: Literary Devices

DIRECTIONS: Complete the following activity as either a written response or a group

discussion.
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RL.9-10.5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events
within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as
mystery, tension, or surprise.

3. Explain why the ending of “The Necklace” is a surprise and how de Maupassant
crafts the story to create the element of surprise. As part of your explanation,
describe the situational irony that is revealed at the end of the story.

Use these guidelines in your writing or discussion.

● Identify the basic plot events of the story, and tell what the surprise is at the

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● Explain what is ironic about the ending. Consider the definition of situational

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irony—an event that is contrary to what characters or readers expect.

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● Explain how de Maupassant leads readers to expect a certain outcome. How

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do his descriptions of the characters and their reactions at key points in the
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story cause the reader to make certain assumptions about the necklace and
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what will happen?
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TIP FOR WRITTEN RESPONSE

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If you use quotations from the text in your writing, check to be sure that the quotations
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are accurate.
TIP FOR DISCUSSION
Think about the ideas the discussion is about beforehand. Reread the selection in advance
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You might be aasking, "what happened in the ending of the story?". I'll tell you what
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happened, Mathilde Loisel, the main character. She wanted to be born in a higher social
class, but sadly for her she wasn't. She always has had expensive taste, never really
liked where she was in life. One day her husband has brough back an invation to a high
class ball. Madam Loisel was devestated because she didn't have anything to wear for
the ball. She then barrowed a necklace because she had felt like her outfit wasn't
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complete. So she barrowed a diamond necklace, but then after the ball she had lost it.
Her husband and her were in distraought looking for the necklace and then they finally
gave in and decided to want to replac ethe necklace. They found a replica for the
diamond necklace, but it was worth 36,000 francs. The husband used the 18000 frnacs
that his dad had left him, then barrowed money for the rest. Her husband and her had
worked 10 years in order to pay off their debts, but at the end Madam Loisel had looked a
lot older than her supposed age bacause of all the stress she had to go through in those

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10 years. After those 10 years she went 4to the park and then saw the women that she
had barrowed the necklace from. Madam Loisel had told her about the truth about the
necklace. Madam Loisel told her that they had spent 10 years paying off their debts for
the diamond necklace and the the women proceded to tell her that the necklace that
Madam Loisel had barrowed was a fake diamond necklace. People would have thought
the necklace was real because apparently the lady was rich.

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