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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.

Summary

Judgement

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"!

A Retrieved Reformation

By: O. Henry

Ralph T. Spencer: Jimmy's alias for his new life in Elmore, he uses this name to start his own shoe store and to win Annabel's heart. Ralph is not a bank robber.

Jimmy Valentine: A bank robber who served nearly ten months of a four year sentence, who travels to Arkansas to rob rob a bank but falls in love with the banker's daughter.

Annabel Adams: Worked at her father's bank as a teller, fell in love with "Ralph T. Spencer" who was engaged to her.

Ben Price: A detective who has been on Jimmy's trail ever since he was released, isn't fully convinced that he has changed for good until the climax.

Multimedia Project 1

Main Characters

Biographical Information about O Henry.

"Ben Price knew Jimmy's habits."

Multimedia project two

"Mr Ralph Spencer, the phoenix that arose from Jimmy Valentine's ashes-ashes left by the flame of a sudden and alternative attack of love-remained in Elmore, and prospered."

"'Naw,' said the boy, 'She's Annabel Adams. Her pa owns this bank.'"

"'Me?', said Jimmy in surprise, 'Why, I never cracked a safe in my life.'"

(O. Henry 7)

(O. Henry 9)

(O. Henry 8)

( O. Henry 5)

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.

Virtuous

Rehabilitate

Pardon

Disregarding

Compulsory

Vocab

morally excellent

a release from the penalty of an offense

Required

To pay no attention to

To restore to good condition

"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."

(O. Henry 5)

( O. Henry 5)

(O. Henry 5)

( O. Henry 5)

Synthesis:

What do you think happened after Ben walked away? Was Jimmy permanently changed once more? Would the Adams' work out Ralph's past crimes? Or would nothing change from before?

Analysis/Inference:

Why do you think Jimmy did not immediately volunteer to open the safe in order to save Agatha?

Recall/Fact:

What does Jimmy ask his "Old Friend" to come and pick up in Little Rock?

Reading Comprehension Questions

Non-Fiction Article 2: http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Your-Identity

Non-Fiction Article 1:

http://www.dcbar.org/for_lawyers/resources/publications/washington_lawyer/august_2001/spectator.cfm

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?

Book Questions

Mike Dolan

Yes

9762

Real

3

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

Setting: Elmore, Arkansas

Elmore County's name is in honor of General John A. Elmore. Elmore County was established on February 15, 1866, from parts of Autauga, Coosa, Tallapoosa, and Montgomery Counties. Lately it has changed to an economy of agriculture as opposed to shoe making, to one of Arkansas's fastest growing counties. It is located in the east-central part of the state. It is drained by the Coosa and the Tallapoosa Rivers, which join together to form the Alabama River south of Wetumpka.

“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?

(O. Henry 10)

(O. Henry 9)

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.

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