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What is your favorite scene in Alice in Wonderland? Why?

Chapter 12 Reading Response Questions

1. How does Alice feel about the trial at the beginning of Chapter 12? How do you know?

2. How does the King try to remove Alice from the courtroom? What argument does Alice make against the King?

3. What evidence from the text shows that the King is trying to incriminate the Knave?

4. What sense does the King find in the verses presented as evidence?

5. What can we learn about Alice by reading about her older sister?

Thanksgiving Break Journals

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Thursday: Write a story or poem about your Thanksgiving day

Friday: Freewrite!

Saturday: In what ways can you benefit by becoming more like Alice?

Sunday: Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

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Freewrite!

Chapter 11 Reading Response Questions

1. Who has been accused of stealing the tarts?

2. Who is the judge? Do you think the judge will be impartial? Why or why not?

3. Do you think the jurors will do a good job at the trial? Why or why not?

4. Who is the first witness? What does he report to the court? Is it useful to the trial?

5. What begins happening to Alice during the trial? How do you think this will impact the proceedings?

6. Who is the second witness? What happens when the King tries to question her?

Notes for Chapter 10, "The Lobster Quadrille"

- Alice stops herself from saying she has eaten a lobster
  - seems she has finally learned her lesson
    - with the mouse, she kept on about her cat and nearly scared the mouse away
    - with the birds at the caucus race, again she talks about her cat and how she would eat a bird as soon as look at it
- Lobster Quadrille
  - parody of a ballroom dance the Liddell children would have known
- Alice stops herself from saying she has seen a whiting at dinner
- Even though Alice avoids making references to eating animals, the chapter ends with the Mock Turtle singing a song about Turtle Soup

Assignment:


Answer the three questions you came up with for Chapter 10.

Notes for Chapter 9, "The Mock Turtle's Story"

- The Duchess continually tells Alice that there is always a moral if you look hard enough
  - this is a reflection of moralistic education of the early 19th c.
    - like the Busy Bee poem which tells children to work hard and stay out of trouble
  - the Duchess seems to twist the moral she wants, regardless of the conversation
    - ex: "The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours" regarding a conversation about mustard
- The Queen takes Alice to the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle
  - The Gryphon tells us that the Queen never executes anyone - "it's all her fancy, that"
  - The Mock Turtle's sorrow is also "all his fancy"
  - Carroll is trying to tell us that our world is shaped by the attitude we bring to it
- The Mock Turtle's story is a parody of Victorian education
  - took Reeling & Writhing (reading and writing)
    - words that describe suffering
  - took Mystery (History)
  - Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils (Drawing, sketching, and painting in oils)
  - Laughing and Grief (Latin and Greek)
    - Greeks also taught us about laughing and grief through comedy and tragedy (Greek drama)
    - the Mock Turtle's grief brings the reader laughter through his puns
  - Lessons lessen every day
- Each pun shows an emotion associated with the topic being taught

Assignment:


1. How does the Mock Turtle's use of puns help us understand his attitudes about school?
2. Choose 2 questions you wrote for Chapter 9, "The Mock Turtle's Story," and answer in paragraph form.