Objective: Students will be read “The Parable of Plain People” (Reading Standard 1.2)

Date: November 28, 2006


Period 1 and 4

1. Get your ID and check out Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth
2. Correct Vocabulary
3. The Good Earth Intro

Period 2 and 5
1. Check out novel
2. Correct Vocabulary
3. The Good Earth Intro
4. “The Parable of Plain People” active reading and assignment.


Vocabulary words:
1. parable
2. overlord
3. thatched
4. sober
5. famine
6. vexed
7. magistrate
8. plunder
9. marauding
10.strife

The Good Earth Reading Schedule:

M: 27 T: 28 W: 29 TH: 30 F: 1
Ch. 1 Ch. 2-5 Ch. 6-8 Ch. 9-11

M: 4 T:5 W:6 TH: 7 F: 8
Ch. 12-13 Ch. 14-15 Ch. 16-18 Ch. 19-20 Ch. 21-22

M: 11 T: 12 W: 13 TH: 14 F: 15
Ch. 23-25 Ch. 26-27 Ch. 28-29 Ch. 30-31 Complete