Please read about the final presentations. I have updated the information, and added a link to a list of children’s books for you to choose from.
Today,
we answered these questions about chapter 13:
- Q: What is written on the golden gate?
- A: “Come in by the gold gates or not at all, /Take my fruit for others or forbear,/For those who steal or those who climb my wall / Shall find their heart’s desire and find despair.”
- Q: Digory wants to taste the silver apple. What arguments does he make to convince himself? What stops him?
- A: Digory wonders if it would be wrong to taste one; the words on the gate “might only have been a piece of advice – and who cares about advice?” Digoro also wonders if, since he’s already obeyed the part about taking one “for others,” would it be wrong to take a second for himself? Digory is stopped because he sees a beautiful bird roosting in the tree, seemingly watching him. Had the bird not been watching, Digory might have done it.”
- Q: Who does Digory see leaving the garden? What is she doing? How has she changed?
- The Witch. She is throwing away the core of the apple she has just eaten. She looks stronger and prouder, even triumphant, but also she looks deadly white.
- Q: How does the witch try to turn Digory against Aslan?
- A: She tells Digory that whoever eats one of the apples will never grow old or die. She also tells him that one bite of the apple will heal his mother. She asks him, “What has the Lion ever done for you that you should be his slave?” and “What can he do to you once you are back in your own world?” She says that Digory’s refusal to bring an apple to his mother shows that Aslan has made Digory heartless.
- Q: How does Digory know he has made the right choice?
- A: He remembers the tears in Aslan’s eyes. It means that Aslan also cares about Digory’s mother, and perhaps he will help.
Silver apples
CS Lewis probably knew the poem “Wandering Angus” by his fellow Irishman, W.B. Yeats. The last stanza contains these lines
Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.
What is the difference between an essay and a report?
Homework for week 10, Dec. 2nd
- Read chapters 14 and 15.
- Read John 10:1-30. What does Jesus say about those who do not come in by the gate?
- Read Genesis 3. How did the serpent tempt Eve to eat the fruit?
- Read Genesis 3:22. Why did God expel Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden?
- Choose your topic for your final presentation and tell me as soon as possible. Start reading your chosen book.
