Summary The narrator retraces the steps of a walk in his childhood. This memory includes the relationship between he and his father and grandfather. He recalls the first time he met his grandfather and hears him tell the story. The windmill has stop turning, and the gears are useless. Grandfather than asks two Indians to help. They dance and it rains. The windmill can move but it rains for twelve days which are too long. However, it stops and the Indians want grandfather to teach them how to operate the shotgun. They share their hunting skills. Also, the narrator recalls the day he and his father goes to the grandfather's homestead just right after his grandfather's funeral.
Q&(1)What are the best implications lied in these words? (a) swell-challenge, Indian grave-enthusiam, windmill-hope (b) swell-today, Indian grave-past, windmill-future (c) Above all
(2)Wait is the talisman? (a) pocketknife (b) block cowboy boots (c) shotgun
(3)How many time period are there in the story? (a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4
(4)Did the narrator find the Indian graves in the end? (a) Yes (b) No (c) We don't know
有登錄了不好意思
ReplyDelete日期6/4
進度Mark Steven Hess "Where You Have Been, Where You Are Going"
頁碼p.164
組員A100320057王禹喬
A100320063薛羽婷
Summary
ReplyDeleteThe narrator retraces the steps of a walk in his childhood. This memory includes the relationship between he and his father and grandfather. He recalls the first time he met his grandfather and hears him tell the story.
The windmill has stop turning, and the gears are useless. Grandfather than asks two Indians to help. They dance and it rains. The windmill can move but it rains for twelve days which are too long. However, it stops and the Indians want grandfather to teach them how to operate the shotgun. They share their hunting skills.
Also, the narrator recalls the day he and his father goes to the grandfather's homestead just right after his grandfather's funeral.
Vocabulary
ReplyDeletesift 過濾
to knead 捏
squirm 扭動
a swell １小山丘２河水上漲【在文章中皆有提及】
script 陡峭的
awning 雨篷
gear 齒輪
grease 塗油使轉動
negligence過失
talisman 護身符
teepee 美國印地安人的圓錐形帳棚
fed up 厭惡
crouch 蹲下
whine 牢騷
lye 灰水，將草木灰浸於水中過濾的鹼水
stride 大步走
rattlesnake 響尾蛇
不是the gears are useless
是and greasing the windmill is useless
Q&(1)What are the best implications lied in these words?
ReplyDelete(a) swell-challenge, Indian grave-enthusiam, windmill-hope
(b) swell-today, Indian grave-past, windmill-future
(c) Above all
(2)Wait is the talisman?
(a) pocketknife
(b) block cowboy boots
(c) shotgun
(3)How many time period are there in the story?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(4)Did the narrator find the Indian graves in the end?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) We don't know
C
ReplyDeleteA
C
B