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I would ask the students what was the main point of this story. I would ask if they thought it was okay with Ben Price just walking away and acting like he knew nothing.
The project I would assign them is one in which they would have to do a slide show on the main points of the story and there will have to be pictures to go with there main points of the story.
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In "A Retrieved Reformation", a lowly criminal, Jimmy Valentine, decides to stop his life as a bank robber and tries to restart. He moves to the small town of Elmore to restart. He decides to take on a new name as well. He goes by "Ralph T. Spencer". He opens a shoe shop and gets engaged to a woman named Annabel Adams. Will Jimmy be caught or will he live out his life in Elmore? Read "A Retrieved Reformation"!
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Biographical Information about O Henry.
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O. Henry's date of birth was September, 11, 1862 and he was born in Greensboro North Carolina and he died on June, 5, 1910. He was an American writer and his short stories are all comedy and he was really good on making good twist on his ending. He wrote about 600 stories about life in America. He left school at the age of 15 he had a number of jobs including a bank clerk. In 1896 he was accused of embezzlement he fled to Honduras. He got married to his wife but then soon after he realized that she was dying he went back to the us and surrendered to the police. He was sentenced to 5 years in jail. When he was in jail he began to write his stories. He published 12 stories while in jail. Then after serving 3 years to a 5 year sentence he was released for good he behavior and continued writing his stories.
A project I would make students do is a iMovie. The prompt would be, If you were Jimmy Valentine, how would you have acted when the girl got trapped in the safe? The students would have to have a mock interview with some characters from the story, as well.
"Me?" said Jimmy, still blankly virtuous. "Why, warden, I never was in Springfield in my life!"
"Valentine, 9762, was chronicled on the books 'Pardoned by Governor', and Mr. James Valentine walked out into the sunshine."
"He had on a suit of the villainously fitting, ready-made clothes and a pair of the stiff, squeaky shoes that the state furnishes to its discharged compulsory guests."
"Disregarding the song of the birds, the waving green trees, and the smell of the flowers, Jimmy headed straight to the restaurant."
"The clerk handed him a railroad ticket and the five-dollar bill with which the law expects him to rehabilitate himself into good citizenship and prosperity."
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How many robberies did Jimmy preform in the story?
Was Ben Price a fictional character or was he made up for the story?
Did Jimmy actually save the girl from the bank?
What was Jimmy's prison number?
Who was the person Jimmy was with in the cafe?
Which tips did Jimmy use in the story?
What was O. Henry's real name and who did he meet in jail?
What is an example of a metaphor?
What literary element does Jimmy use when he says his tool "bit"
What is a form of simile in the story
Numbers 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7
William Sydney Porter and Jimmy Valentine
“She is an angel.”
Literary Questions
"He was as much at home in the family of Mr. Adams and that of Annabel’s married sister as if he were already a member.”
Personification
Why didn't Jimmy try to convince law enforcement that he needed a new identity?
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What was the name of the play, and later movie, that was based on A Retrieved Reformation?
He only changed his identity to court Annabel and so that he could have a new life, when he was around law enforcement he only thought of cracking safes so a new identity would be redundant
"Alias Jimmy Valentine"
Do you think that many criminals today use these methods?
What was the name of the hit song, also based on Jimmy, by Gus Edwards?
What is one symbol from the story?
Possibly, but probably not as often as back then when record systems weren't as sophisticated
What is the mood of the overall story?
"When Jimmy Valentine Gets Out"
Safe-when he was using it rob things
Suspenseful at the climax, happy in the middle, old-fashioned, shady in the beginning.