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READING BOOK
1st Bchto. C
Year: 2009-2010
TEACHER:
Visitación Berrocal Calderón
The street lawyer tells a story of Michael Brock where everything is rosy until an odd incident occurs which changes his outlook on life and begins to take an interest in the homeless and takes on unpaid legal work on behalf of the street people. At the beginning of the story Michel was a rising star, with no time to waste, no time to stop…but after the strange incident he decided to become a street lawyer and told his wife his decision to take a job with less money and no benefits and she then filed for a divorce. Then, he began searching and realized that the company he worked for had illegally evicted homeless people from a building and this caused death to some. He worked long and hard to prove this and in the end Drake & Sweeny realized the mistake, fired the lawyer who done this and began helping Michael Brock help the homeless.
ACTIVITIES:
1.- Explain how Michael discovered the truth about the eviction and why Hector played an important role in the eviction. Engage them in speculating why Barry Nuzzo visited him at the 14th Street Law Centre.
2.- What did you learn about street lawyers working in Washington DC?
3.- Why is it that some people who have a job live in shelters such as the Samaritan House?
4.- What is the condition for street lawyers to take new clients?
5.- What are the most common problems street lawyers in Washington have to solve?
6.- Where do street lawyers get the necessary information for their cases?
7.- Talk about the power of the media and how their intervention changed the course of events in this story.
8.- If you were the author of this book what would you change and how would you finish the story.
ACTIVITIES:
1.- Explain how Michael discovered the truth about the eviction and why Hector played an important role in the eviction. Engage them in speculating why Barry Nuzzo visited him at the 14th Street Law Centre.
2.- What did you learn about street lawyers working in Washington DC?
3.- Why is it that some people who have a job live in shelters such as the Samaritan House?
4.- What is the condition for street lawyers to take new clients?
5.- What are the most common problems street lawyers in Washington have to solve?
6.- Where do street lawyers get the necessary information for their cases?
7.- Talk about the power of the media and how their intervention changed the course of events in this story.
8.- If you were the author of this book what would you change and how would you finish the story.
1)May welland was a beautifull young woman:She met Newland Archer at the opera.She was an important character,because she had get married with Newland.They travelled to different countries and after they had had a children.during the marriage Newland and Ellen had a special relation.Ellen was May´s cousin.may finally died.
ResponderEliminar2)Newland Archer was a fashionable young man.He is one of the most important characters in the novel,for the followin reason:
ResponderEliminar-firstly, he was the man who had been married with May welland(other importan character in the novel) and they had three children.
-secondly,he always had a special relations whit Ellen.He helped her with her to divorce.
3)Ellen was not accepted in the society because she was a divorced woman and for that reason she came beck to the country where she had her family.
ResponderEliminarNewland was related with the most important people in the society and he was a well known man because he used to go to the opera.
4)Newland and Ellen loved each other and they tought in the same way.They met each other since they were child.They belonged to the same social class,and they had much money.
ResponderEliminarNewland said to Ellen that he loved her, and she said that he should not love her because many men had loved her and their relationships had been very bad.
5)´Innocent´is due to Neland because he had not tought of his feelings.At the beginning of the novel he prefered May´s beauty and for that reason he pretended get married with her.After he noticed that he loved Ellen.
6)Yes, because I think that after May´s death Newland would have a relation with Ellen.on the contrary he prefered travelling to Paris where she lived , and setting in front of her apartment.
7)Newland should have broken down the relation with May and should have fought for the relationships with Ellen.He could have tried to conquest her.
also another possible end woul be that Newland had come into the apartment.
Jesus Lozano Martin-Romo