This is my personal favorite Reaper Man book cover. How many details from the text can you identify from the text. Extra credit for lists with more than twenty specific items.
Side note: This is the crop I envision from Elie Wiesel's description of Madame Schachter as a withered tree in a cornfield. This isn't the tree, though. Find the tree amongst the French Impressionists.
Is there a French pun in the name "Bill Door?" Check with your
French teacher. I'm going to. You have to keep an eye on
Pratchett; he always is working on a connection.
Look at what he does with the sharpening of his
scythe in pages 177 - 181. (How can you illustrate
this image?)
Also, look at the quality of light in this
illustration. Oh; it is rich . . . richer than
a Caramel Macchiado at Starbucks - with
extra whipped cream.
Reading-in-Class Schedule
Basically, Friends and Neighbors, it's fifteen pages a day till
the annual Snowball Fight in Odysseus' Underworld; therefore,
in the gradebook, it shows --
Reaper Man
Pages of the story line we will follow in class.
These page numbers are based on the Harper Torch edition,
copyright 1991, with the blue cover background featuring
the Grim Reaper in a snow globe.
1 – 35
36 – 39
39 – 45
45 – 50
52 - 75
We first see Miss Flitworth’s farm on page 70
105 – 114
123 – 124
143 – 166
170 – 183
202 – 212
231 – 240
248 – 250
251 - 259
277 – 283
292 – 295
301 – 303
312 – 312
317 – 353
The Ides of March is a good time for Extra Credit (nudge; nudge; wink wink) . . .
F riends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Till the Ides . . .
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:Wear a Toga to School for
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,Extra Credit
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men--
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
Julius Caesar,Act 3, Scene 2, Shakespeare,
