ENGLISH EDGENUITY A young man – we can sketch his portrait at a dash. Imagine to yourself a Don Quixote of eighteen; …a Don Quixote clothed in a woolen doublet, the blue color of which had faded into a nameless shade between lees of wine and a heavenly azure; face long and brown; high cheek bones, a sign of sagacity;… – and our young man wore a cap set off with a sort of feather; the eye open and intelligent; the nose hooked, but finely chiseled.

Read the passage above with accuracy and fluency. Discuss any unfamiliar words from the passage and what strategies you used to understand them.

Read this excerpt from “what i hope to leave behind.” for a number of years it took so much vitality to keep the home going, and that home represented so many different kinds of activities, that none of us had any urge to go outside of this sphere. if “what i hope to leave behind” was the subject of a class discussion, why might paraphrasing this sentence be ? you could analyze the key themes while also staying true to the original language. you could summarize the key ideas, which would shorten the length of the excerpt. you could use your own ideas and concepts, which would add important information. you could rephrase it in your own words, which might clarify the meaning of the excerpt.

Why do you think both wiesel and solzhenitsyn speak of the importance of telling the truth?

How does this paragraph develop the characters in the dialogue?