non-fiction by Martin Luther King Jr.
Religion reminds everyman that he is his brothers keeper.
Life of opressed; they adjusted by being silent
To accept passively is unjust
Religion reminds everyone of there moral rights
Can adjust by being violent.
Violence to achieve racial justice is impractical and immoral (emphasis hate rather than love) seeks humiliate opponinte rather than win his understanding
violence ends by defeating itself; creates bitterness, or adjust, nonviolent resistance; reconsive truth of 2 opposites
with nonviolence resistance, no individual or group need submit to any wrong, nor resort to violence in order to right or wrong.
Not black vs. white, but justice vs. injustice.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Information on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King
Malcolm X:
Malcolm X: was an African-American Muslim minister
public speaker, and human rights activist.
He stood up for the rights of African-Americans. He was known as a very great and influential man in the history of blacks.
Martin Luther King Jr.:
Martin Luther King Jr was a clergyman, activist and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955.
In 1963 he led the March on Washington where said the well known speech called "I Have a Dream".
Killed on April 4, 1968.
Protect Ourselves- Transcript of 1964 TV Interview
Done By: Malcolm X
Malcolm believes in talking face to face rather than doing something constructive for the benefit of other people.
Malcolm also believes negros should be allowed to have guns for protection
Malcolm questions if government and FBI respects negros
He also believes negros should form vigilanted committees for protection of lives and community.
Malcolm X: was an African-American Muslim minister
public speaker, and human rights activist.
He stood up for the rights of African-Americans. He was known as a very great and influential man in the history of blacks.
Martin Luther King Jr.:
Martin Luther King Jr was a clergyman, activist and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955.
In 1963 he led the March on Washington where said the well known speech called "I Have a Dream".
Killed on April 4, 1968.
Protect Ourselves- Transcript of 1964 TV Interview
Done By: Malcolm X
Malcolm believes in talking face to face rather than doing something constructive for the benefit of other people.
Malcolm also believes negros should be allowed to have guns for protection
Malcolm questions if government and FBI respects negros
He also believes negros should form vigilanted committees for protection of lives and community.
Ballad of Birmingham
poem by Dudley Randall
Mom didnt want her little girl on the streets so she told her she could go to the Baptist Church so she did and a man by the name of Robert Chambliss blew it up and killed 4 little girls. When the mother went to the church she found her daughters shoe.
Ballad-narrative poem:meant origianally to be sung
Mom didnt want her little girl on the streets so she told her she could go to the Baptist Church so she did and a man by the name of Robert Chambliss blew it up and killed 4 little girls. When the mother went to the church she found her daughters shoe.
Ballad-narrative poem:meant origianally to be sung
Coming of Age in Mississippi
autobiography by: Anne Moody
1963 she was part of a NAACP.
conducted boycotts of the downstown stores in Jackson
3 blacks sat down at the counter up front
got mustard, ketchup, sugar, and much more poured all over them
many news crews showed up
when they prayed people got even more mad and upset
Memphis arreseted, but 2 girls stayed
one white man joined them
As they were being harrased a man by the name of Lois Chaffee joined them, 2 whites, and 2 negro women
John Salter came but got a jaw wound
George Raymond also a student joined
slapped and pushed to the ground
cops didnt do anything because the "bartender didnt tell them to do anything"
when they got out the cops barly protected them
after Anne went and got her hair cleaned and get to walk infront of all the other customers
That night there was a rally and she was afraid of something being on the news because she was afraid they would maybe hurt her family
1963 she was part of a NAACP.
conducted boycotts of the downstown stores in Jackson
3 blacks sat down at the counter up front
got mustard, ketchup, sugar, and much more poured all over them
many news crews showed up
when they prayed people got even more mad and upset
Memphis arreseted, but 2 girls stayed
one white man joined them
As they were being harrased a man by the name of Lois Chaffee joined them, 2 whites, and 2 negro women
John Salter came but got a jaw wound
George Raymond also a student joined
slapped and pushed to the ground
cops didnt do anything because the "bartender didnt tell them to do anything"
when they got out the cops barly protected them
after Anne went and got her hair cleaned and get to walk infront of all the other customers
That night there was a rally and she was afraid of something being on the news because she was afraid they would maybe hurt her family
From Narrative life of Frederick Douglass
Style:not what was said, but how it was said. Style can be described as a formal or conversational concise or elabrote, object or subject.
Talks about his master Covey
He got sold to him for a year
Talks about how he went through hell the whole 6 months with Mr. Covey
One day when he is sick and working he falls to the grouns and is told to get back up but he cant so he gets beat
He then runs away and goes to his old master to tell him what Mr. Covey is doing
Well walking home he meets a guy and they go talk to his gf
She tells him to keep a root on the rightside of his arm
He goes back Saturday morning and when he gets there Covey sees him and runs after him
He gets away and hides in the corn for a day
The next day when he is doing horse chores Covey comes up to him ready to whip him
He doesnt let him and starts to fight back
He calls to Hughes but Fred kicks him to the ground and Bill doesnt help him either
They went @ it for 2 hrs. Finally Covey gave up
He was another slave for 4 more years but was never whipped
QUOTES
Figurative:
"I expected every movement that my brains would be dashed out against the trees." Page 563
Word Choice:
"My car was upset and shattered." Page 563
Elaborate:
"His comings were like a thief in the night." Page 565
Formal:
"My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died." Page 565
Conversational:
"He spoke to me very kindly, bade me drive pigs from a lot near by and passed on towards the church." Page 569
Talks about his master Covey
He got sold to him for a year
Talks about how he went through hell the whole 6 months with Mr. Covey
One day when he is sick and working he falls to the grouns and is told to get back up but he cant so he gets beat
He then runs away and goes to his old master to tell him what Mr. Covey is doing
Well walking home he meets a guy and they go talk to his gf
She tells him to keep a root on the rightside of his arm
He goes back Saturday morning and when he gets there Covey sees him and runs after him
He gets away and hides in the corn for a day
The next day when he is doing horse chores Covey comes up to him ready to whip him
He doesnt let him and starts to fight back
He calls to Hughes but Fred kicks him to the ground and Bill doesnt help him either
They went @ it for 2 hrs. Finally Covey gave up
He was another slave for 4 more years but was never whipped
QUOTES
Figurative:
"I expected every movement that my brains would be dashed out against the trees." Page 563
Word Choice:
"My car was upset and shattered." Page 563
Elaborate:
"His comings were like a thief in the night." Page 565
Formal:
"My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died." Page 565
Conversational:
"He spoke to me very kindly, bade me drive pigs from a lot near by and passed on towards the church." Page 569
Monday, November 9, 2009
Declaration of Independence
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/doi/text.html
The Declaration of Independence has four main parts:
* a preamble, or foreword, that announces the reason for the document
* a declaration of people's natural rights and relationship to government
* a long list of complaints against George III, the British king
* a conclusion that formally states America's independence
-unalienable: that may not be taken away
-despotism: absolute power or control; tyranny
-transient: passing away with time
-usurpations: acts of wrongfully taking over a right or power that belongs to someone else
-conjured: appealed to
-consanguinity: blood relationship
-acquiesce in the necessity which denounces: recognize that we must demand
-parallelism: the use of similar grammatical forms to express ideas of equal importance
-insurrections: an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government
The list of complaints begins with "He..."
1. Why do they repeat it?
To let people no that it is important and has a meaning.
2. Why do they make it personal?
Its just how they did it so that that one person stands out.
3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change?
They change how they wrote it out so that there are parts that stand out more than others.Also there's parts that mean more then the others. For example: He has....
4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece?
When it talks about the King of Great Britain "He has...." they use it to show the one person standing out!
parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance.
5.What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why?
"We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. " This is says we all need to learn to get along and live with one another as it would be the right thing to do!
The Declaration of Independence has four main parts:
* a preamble, or foreword, that announces the reason for the document
* a declaration of people's natural rights and relationship to government
* a long list of complaints against George III, the British king
* a conclusion that formally states America's independence
-unalienable: that may not be taken away
-despotism: absolute power or control; tyranny
-transient: passing away with time
-usurpations: acts of wrongfully taking over a right or power that belongs to someone else
-conjured: appealed to
-consanguinity: blood relationship
-acquiesce in the necessity which denounces: recognize that we must demand
-parallelism: the use of similar grammatical forms to express ideas of equal importance
-insurrections: an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government
The list of complaints begins with "He..."
1. Why do they repeat it?
To let people no that it is important and has a meaning.
2. Why do they make it personal?
Its just how they did it so that that one person stands out.
3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change?
They change how they wrote it out so that there are parts that stand out more than others.Also there's parts that mean more then the others. For example: He has....
4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece?
When it talks about the King of Great Britain "He has...." they use it to show the one person standing out!
parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance.
5.What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why?
"We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. " This is says we all need to learn to get along and live with one another as it would be the right thing to do!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
A Murder, A Mystery, and A Marriage by Mark Twain
Southwestern Missouri
Village of Deere Lick: small town, were John lives
Reverend Hurley: Reverend in town
John Grey: Mary Grey's father, farmer, 55 yrs old
Mary Grey: daughter of John Grey and loves Hugh Gregory
Hugh Gregory: Mary's love, has lots of money
- tall, handsome, honest
Sara/Sally Grey: John Grey's wife and Mary's mom
Tom: little brother
Dave: John's brother, very rich
Reverend comes and says Dave's gonna leave all money to Mary
John tells Mary shes not allowed to marry Hugh
He lives in small town called Deer Lick.
His daughter Mary Gray and Hugh Gregory want to get married.
Reverend John Hurley:Hates Hugh because he tried to cheat Hugh's father out of money and Hugh stopped him.
Dave left all his money to Mary in his will
John went into the field and found a stranger in the snow
The stranger was named George Wayne-Frenchmam who was very wealthy and his father is a lord and so is he, his father wanted to marry a queen but he wanted to marry for love.
His real name is Count Hubert dee Fountingblow
Mary now says she could love Count b/c he came a gave a big speech about how he will leave her alone b/c she loves Hugh.
Hugh and Dave get in a fight.
Count tells marry he loves her.
John comes and said Hugh has killed Dave, the knife, the cloth and blood.
Hugh and Mary are trying to reach each other but John gets in the way.
Count and Mary decide to get married.
The hanging of Hugh is on the same day as the counts and Marys wedding.
Mary doesn't know that Hugh has been excused.
They are going to get married- a stranger is the reverend and he tells of the hanging.
The police rush in and say that Hugh is innocent.
He taught himself everything he knows.
Count killed Dave Gray so that he could get Mary's wealth
Jean had worked for Jules Vern and Jean would go and when he came back he told Vern his stories.
Vern would then twist his stories and make books. He killed Vern when they were up in a hot air balloon.
This book is really bashing on Jules Vern b/c of Mark Twain and the stolen book.
Village of Deere Lick: small town, were John lives
Reverend Hurley: Reverend in town
John Grey: Mary Grey's father, farmer, 55 yrs old
Mary Grey: daughter of John Grey and loves Hugh Gregory
Hugh Gregory: Mary's love, has lots of money
- tall, handsome, honest
Sara/Sally Grey: John Grey's wife and Mary's mom
Tom: little brother
Dave: John's brother, very rich
Reverend comes and says Dave's gonna leave all money to Mary
John tells Mary shes not allowed to marry Hugh
He lives in small town called Deer Lick.
His daughter Mary Gray and Hugh Gregory want to get married.
Reverend John Hurley:Hates Hugh because he tried to cheat Hugh's father out of money and Hugh stopped him.
Dave left all his money to Mary in his will
John went into the field and found a stranger in the snow
The stranger was named George Wayne-Frenchmam who was very wealthy and his father is a lord and so is he, his father wanted to marry a queen but he wanted to marry for love.
His real name is Count Hubert dee Fountingblow
Mary now says she could love Count b/c he came a gave a big speech about how he will leave her alone b/c she loves Hugh.
Hugh and Dave get in a fight.
Count tells marry he loves her.
John comes and said Hugh has killed Dave, the knife, the cloth and blood.
Hugh and Mary are trying to reach each other but John gets in the way.
Count and Mary decide to get married.
The hanging of Hugh is on the same day as the counts and Marys wedding.
Mary doesn't know that Hugh has been excused.
They are going to get married- a stranger is the reverend and he tells of the hanging.
The police rush in and say that Hugh is innocent.
He taught himself everything he knows.
Count killed Dave Gray so that he could get Mary's wealth
Jean had worked for Jules Vern and Jean would go and when he came back he told Vern his stories.
Vern would then twist his stories and make books. He killed Vern when they were up in a hot air balloon.
This book is really bashing on Jules Vern b/c of Mark Twain and the stolen book.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Unit 4
Mark Twain
Name meaning:It means it's safe to navigate. It came from when he became a river pilot.
His real name is: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Why are his books so controversal?
Answer: Huckelyberry Finn was very controversialin the way he wrote his books because they had been used in many classrooms. Now they are banned from many schools for being so controversal.People think that because he used such racial wording that kids will get the bad impression and wrong idea about slavery etc...
Interesting facts about his life?
American Writer
Wrote for his brother's newspaper
His father passed away when he was 12
At the age of 17 he left home to go be a printer.
He then ended up being a river pilot.
Started then started writing for a newspaper.
Wrote 28 short stories, letters, and sketches.
Meaning of Irony:
A technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.
example: Telling someone that they are cool in a jokingly way would be an example of irony
Jules Verne
French writer
helped start the science fiction genre
What did he write?
He wrote about air travel and submarines before they were invented.
Popular things he wrote
"From the Earth to the Moon"
"Twenty Thousand leagues Under the Sea"
How was he connected to Mark Twain?
They both made good opions about things that had to get people thinking. It wasnt just a story it kind of had a meaning.
Name meaning:It means it's safe to navigate. It came from when he became a river pilot.
His real name is: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Why are his books so controversal?
Answer: Huckelyberry Finn was very controversialin the way he wrote his books because they had been used in many classrooms. Now they are banned from many schools for being so controversal.People think that because he used such racial wording that kids will get the bad impression and wrong idea about slavery etc...
Interesting facts about his life?
American Writer
Wrote for his brother's newspaper
His father passed away when he was 12
At the age of 17 he left home to go be a printer.
He then ended up being a river pilot.
Started then started writing for a newspaper.
Wrote 28 short stories, letters, and sketches.
Meaning of Irony:
A technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.
example: Telling someone that they are cool in a jokingly way would be an example of irony
Jules Verne
French writer
helped start the science fiction genre
What did he write?
He wrote about air travel and submarines before they were invented.
Popular things he wrote
"From the Earth to the Moon"
"Twenty Thousand leagues Under the Sea"
How was he connected to Mark Twain?
They both made good opions about things that had to get people thinking. It wasnt just a story it kind of had a meaning.
The Fall of The House of Usher by Edger Allen Poe
*Unity of effect: single overall feeling
*Strange and fantastic: are gothic literature elements
*Mood: feeling and atmosphere
*dark soundless day in autumn
*rode on a horse through a country
*6 verses in the "Haunted Palace."
*The man used to be childhood friends with Roderick usher. the houses proprietor
*Rod sent him a letter that Rod had a mental illness and he needed to see him
*Rod always was quiet and didnt say much
*House features gothic elements
*Rods sister Madeline passed away, she was all he had left, she died from a deasease
"didnt REALLY die though"
*Rod and a man burried Madeline in the basement
*Soon after Madeline died Rod became sick
*The man watches as Rod goes crazy thinking that his sister Madeline has come alive from the tomb.
*Rod and the man saw Madelines ghost in the hall. Blood on her white robe she fell into Rod so they became one and killed him.
*buries his sister alive
*has sensitive things
*house burns after they dir
*Madeline has like catatonic stages
*Strange and fantastic: are gothic literature elements
*Mood: feeling and atmosphere
*dark soundless day in autumn
*rode on a horse through a country
*6 verses in the "Haunted Palace."
*The man used to be childhood friends with Roderick usher. the houses proprietor
*Rod sent him a letter that Rod had a mental illness and he needed to see him
*Rod always was quiet and didnt say much
*House features gothic elements
*Rods sister Madeline passed away, she was all he had left, she died from a deasease
"didnt REALLY die though"
*Rod and a man burried Madeline in the basement
*Soon after Madeline died Rod became sick
*The man watches as Rod goes crazy thinking that his sister Madeline has come alive from the tomb.
*Rod and the man saw Madelines ghost in the hall. Blood on her white robe she fell into Rod so they became one and killed him.
*buries his sister alive
*has sensitive things
*house burns after they dir
*Madeline has like catatonic stages
The Raven by Edger Allen Poe and The Signalman by Charles Dickens
*Raven: bird of prophecy, Had been associated with mystery, evil, omens, and death.
*Phrophecy: something thats going to happen or a plan.
*End rhyme: similar to identical sounds @ the end of lines
*Iternal rythme: rythmes with in a line
*Rythme Scheme: the basic pattern of the end rythmes.
*Stansa: a group of words like a paragraph
*someone came to visit a man tapping on his chamber door.
*it was a ghost of Maiden Loren
*Didnt no who the visiter was
*opened the door and nothing was there
Signalman: by Charles Dickens
spector: ghost
*This was about a signalman who gets signs from a spector when someones about to die. The last time he gets one he gets hit by the train.
*Phrophecy: something thats going to happen or a plan.
*End rhyme: similar to identical sounds @ the end of lines
*Iternal rythme: rythmes with in a line
*Rythme Scheme: the basic pattern of the end rythmes.
*Stansa: a group of words like a paragraph
*someone came to visit a man tapping on his chamber door.
*it was a ghost of Maiden Loren
*Didnt no who the visiter was
*opened the door and nothing was there
Signalman: by Charles Dickens
spector: ghost
*This was about a signalman who gets signs from a spector when someones about to die. The last time he gets one he gets hit by the train.
Dance of Death and The Masque of The Red Dealth
Dance of Death
* the bug behind the door.
- the thing that scares you but its a scary relief.
* scary part is the unknown
* the thing that scares people is the leading up to the scary action, not the actual "scary" thing itself.
The Masque of The Red Death.
allegory: a work with 2 layers of meaning, persons, objects, and events stand for abstract ideas or qualities.
*sharp pains, sudden dizziness, and profuse bleeding
Every room had a different stained glass:
1.blue:windows
2.purple:panes
3.green:casements
4.orange:furnished and lightened
5.white
6.violet
7.black velvet tapestries hung over the ceilings and walls
*No light in any of the rooms
*Huge clock in the 7th room
*Every hour the clock would chime! Everyone would stop and be quiet
*Masquerades had bizzare apperences
*7th room no one was allowed
* @ 12 everyone is still and quiet
* Prince was in the blue room when he orders the man to take off his mask.
* Tall figure with clothing from the grave and was sprinkled with blood like "Red Death"
* When the prince goes up to him the figure stabs him with a dagger.
* Skull masked man= Red Death. Killed everyone at the party. The clock stopped working
Moral of Story: You cant cheat death it will always be there and you cant run from it.
When the figure is by the clock shows that death is there and ready.
* the bug behind the door.
- the thing that scares you but its a scary relief.
* scary part is the unknown
* the thing that scares people is the leading up to the scary action, not the actual "scary" thing itself.
The Masque of The Red Death.
allegory: a work with 2 layers of meaning, persons, objects, and events stand for abstract ideas or qualities.
*sharp pains, sudden dizziness, and profuse bleeding
Every room had a different stained glass:
1.blue:windows
2.purple:panes
3.green:casements
4.orange:furnished and lightened
5.white
6.violet
7.black velvet tapestries hung over the ceilings and walls
*No light in any of the rooms
*Huge clock in the 7th room
*Every hour the clock would chime! Everyone would stop and be quiet
*Masquerades had bizzare apperences
*7th room no one was allowed
* @ 12 everyone is still and quiet
* Prince was in the blue room when he orders the man to take off his mask.
* Tall figure with clothing from the grave and was sprinkled with blood like "Red Death"
* When the prince goes up to him the figure stabs him with a dagger.
* Skull masked man= Red Death. Killed everyone at the party. The clock stopped working
Moral of Story: You cant cheat death it will always be there and you cant run from it.
When the figure is by the clock shows that death is there and ready.
The Devil and Tom Walker
Boston, Mass
* Oak tree with a lot of $ buried by a pirate
- people say the devil hid the $, but Kidd never returned to the spot because he was hung for being a pirate.
* Tom and his wife didn't get along
* There house was bad; iron bars, scary trees, looked like it was haunted
* Tom took a shortcut through the woods home through a swamp, when he stopped by an old Indian village, when he was sitting he found an old Tomahawk
* A guy comes from behind and is angry with him. He is a black Indian.
* Black Indian goes by many different names: Wild hunter,Black miner
* Talks to the Quakers and Anabaptists
* They had a long talk and became friends. Black guy told him about the $
* He gets home and tells his wife about the gold and then she tells him she wants him to get it. But the more she tells him and wants him to get it the less he wants to go so he doesn't have to make her happy.
* The wife then decides to go and talk with the Indian. She goes but comes back empty handed. So she goes back with everything she owned and never returns. Tom is scared for her safety.
* Many stories come up about what happened to her:
- She go stuck in the swamp.
- Tall black guy came out of the swamp with ax and a bag of stuff.
- Tom went back to get her and when he got to the tree a vulture had an apron ad her liver and heart in the tree.
*Tom thought that the black man helped with his wife's dying. He wanted to pay him back.
* Black man says he has to open a brokers shop in Boston.
* At his office everyone hears about him.
* Everyone went to him so this means he is rich and took all there $.
* He started being a begger
* He also started going to church and being a LOUD Christian.
* As he got older he got crazy.
* One day when he was old and finishing a deal there was a knock on his door the black man was there. The black man took him away and he was NEVER SEEN AGAIN!
* Oak tree with a lot of $ buried by a pirate
- people say the devil hid the $, but Kidd never returned to the spot because he was hung for being a pirate.
* Tom and his wife didn't get along
* There house was bad; iron bars, scary trees, looked like it was haunted
* Tom took a shortcut through the woods home through a swamp, when he stopped by an old Indian village, when he was sitting he found an old Tomahawk
* A guy comes from behind and is angry with him. He is a black Indian.
* Black Indian goes by many different names: Wild hunter,Black miner
* Talks to the Quakers and Anabaptists
* They had a long talk and became friends. Black guy told him about the $
* He gets home and tells his wife about the gold and then she tells him she wants him to get it. But the more she tells him and wants him to get it the less he wants to go so he doesn't have to make her happy.
* The wife then decides to go and talk with the Indian. She goes but comes back empty handed. So she goes back with everything she owned and never returns. Tom is scared for her safety.
* Many stories come up about what happened to her:
- She go stuck in the swamp.
- Tall black guy came out of the swamp with ax and a bag of stuff.
- Tom went back to get her and when he got to the tree a vulture had an apron ad her liver and heart in the tree.
*Tom thought that the black man helped with his wife's dying. He wanted to pay him back.
* Black man says he has to open a brokers shop in Boston.
* At his office everyone hears about him.
* Everyone went to him so this means he is rich and took all there $.
* He started being a begger
* He also started going to church and being a LOUD Christian.
* As he got older he got crazy.
* One day when he was old and finishing a deal there was a knock on his door the black man was there. The black man took him away and he was NEVER SEEN AGAIN!
Gothic Literature Notes
Gothic Literature: characterized by grotesque characters, bizarre situations, and violent events.
- 19th century (originated in Europe)
- Edger Allan Poe, Steven King, and Nathaniel Hawthorne
Age of Reason: Puritanism, fear of God
Romantic Writers:
-saw limitations of reason
-celebrate individual spirit
-emotions
-imagination
-saw: basic elements of human nature
-facination of supernatural
- splendors of natures that the fear God
-Washington Irving = example of writer
-romantic preoccupation with atmosphere, sentiment, and optimism.
Transcendentalism: forms of truth exist beyond reason and experience.
- every individual is capable of discovering this higher truth on his or her own, through intuition.
Dark Side of Individualism:
- Gothic architecture of the middle ages
- Gothic Cathedrals
- Gargoyles
- high stained glass windows
- imaginative distortion of reality that Gothic represents
- imagination lead to the threshold of the unknown then see the potential for dark.
- fantastic, demonic, and insane reside
Romantic see hope
Gothic writers see potential for evil
Edger Allen Poe:
- many of his stories are with dark and medieval castles or decaying ancient estates that provide weird and terrifying events.
- plots involve extreme situation such as
-live burials, physical/mental torture
- male narrators:insane
- female characters: beautiful and dead or dying
- only when pushed to extreme did you see the dark side.
Hawthorne:
- fear, greed, vanity, mistreat, betrayed
- 19th century (originated in Europe)
- Edger Allan Poe, Steven King, and Nathaniel Hawthorne
Age of Reason: Puritanism, fear of God
Romantic Writers:
-saw limitations of reason
-celebrate individual spirit
-emotions
-imagination
-saw: basic elements of human nature
-facination of supernatural
- splendors of natures that the fear God
-Washington Irving = example of writer
-romantic preoccupation with atmosphere, sentiment, and optimism.
Transcendentalism: forms of truth exist beyond reason and experience.
- every individual is capable of discovering this higher truth on his or her own, through intuition.
Dark Side of Individualism:
- Gothic architecture of the middle ages
- Gothic Cathedrals
- Gargoyles
- high stained glass windows
- imaginative distortion of reality that Gothic represents
- imagination lead to the threshold of the unknown then see the potential for dark.
- fantastic, demonic, and insane reside
Romantic see hope
Gothic writers see potential for evil
Edger Allen Poe:
- many of his stories are with dark and medieval castles or decaying ancient estates that provide weird and terrifying events.
- plots involve extreme situation such as
-live burials, physical/mental torture
- male narrators:insane
- female characters: beautiful and dead or dying
- only when pushed to extreme did you see the dark side.
Hawthorne:
- fear, greed, vanity, mistreat, betrayed
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Gothic Literature
Gothic Literature:
-Gothic Literature is a genre of literature that brings together Romance and Horror!
-It was believed to be started by a man named Horace Walpole, after writing a novel called The Castle of Otranto.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction
Romanticism:
Romanticism of Wordsworth is the literature which is oriented towards nature and can be considered to be reverse of classicism.
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/types-of-literature.html
Great Video about Romanticism Literature
WATCH IT:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkdgCSR6DYs
Transcendentalism:
In literature there was a philosophical and literary movement that came into play in New England from about 1836-1860. It came about from a small group of intellectuals who were reacting against the orthodoxy of Calvinism and the rationalism of the Unitarian Church.
http://www.questia.com/library/literature/transcendentalism-in-literature.jsp
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Crucible
Act 1:
Crucible means: survire test or trial!
Reverend Paris:
Reverend, Abigal is his neice and Betty is his daughter!
John Proctor:
Farmer, wife Elizabeth, has kids
Tituba:
Worked for Reverend Paris, was the leader of talking with the devil and chanting the words.
Mercy Lewis:
Putnam's maid.
Putnam's:
Children all died, last one acts as though she is with the devil.
Abigal and all her friends are caught dancing around a fire and throughing things into a kettle by Reverend Paris.
Abigal drinks chicken blood as she dances naked around the fire.
Abigal has a crush on John Proctor and they also had relations with one another, John who already is married to Elizabeth.
Abigal blames the dancing and everything on Tituba for making her dance.
Act 2:
Elizabeth talks with John Proctor about having sexual relations with Abigal. John denys that he ever did anything with abigal.
Rebecca is charged with being a witch when she was found reading books.
Elizabeth doesn't believe in witchcraft!!!
Mary was @ court and was sowing a doll, stuck a needle in the stomach and got in trouble from John Procter when he found out about it.
Many people get accused of witchcraft!
Act 3:
Elizabeth says that she is pregnant and John does't believe she would lie about something like that.
Mary makes all these lies about somethings that took place in the forest.
All the girls went to court to be asked ?s
John Proctor admits to having sexual relations with Abigal.
Act 4:
Cows are out in about roaming because of all the people that are in prison for being accussed of witchcraft.
Sarah Good and Tituba go home
Abigal runs away and steals some money.
John proctor was locked up with lots of other victums.
John proctor confessed but after receiving the form he refusses to sign and so they kill him.
Crucible means: survire test or trial!
Reverend Paris:
Reverend, Abigal is his neice and Betty is his daughter!
John Proctor:
Farmer, wife Elizabeth, has kids
Tituba:
Worked for Reverend Paris, was the leader of talking with the devil and chanting the words.
Mercy Lewis:
Putnam's maid.
Putnam's:
Children all died, last one acts as though she is with the devil.
Abigal and all her friends are caught dancing around a fire and throughing things into a kettle by Reverend Paris.
Abigal drinks chicken blood as she dances naked around the fire.
Abigal has a crush on John Proctor and they also had relations with one another, John who already is married to Elizabeth.
Abigal blames the dancing and everything on Tituba for making her dance.
Act 2:
Elizabeth talks with John Proctor about having sexual relations with Abigal. John denys that he ever did anything with abigal.
Rebecca is charged with being a witch when she was found reading books.
Elizabeth doesn't believe in witchcraft!!!
Mary was @ court and was sowing a doll, stuck a needle in the stomach and got in trouble from John Procter when he found out about it.
Many people get accused of witchcraft!
Act 3:
Elizabeth says that she is pregnant and John does't believe she would lie about something like that.
Mary makes all these lies about somethings that took place in the forest.
All the girls went to court to be asked ?s
John Proctor admits to having sexual relations with Abigal.
Act 4:
Cows are out in about roaming because of all the people that are in prison for being accussed of witchcraft.
Sarah Good and Tituba go home
Abigal runs away and steals some money.
John proctor was locked up with lots of other victums.
John proctor confessed but after receiving the form he refusses to sign and so they kill him.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
New Puritans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5BZErykrXY&feature=related
This is a great video that shares a lot of info.
Piritans were pursicuted in England because of their religion.
They settled in Boston, Watertown, and Roxbury.
They stuggled through the first winter after 200 people died
This is a great video that shares a lot of info.
Piritans were pursicuted in England because of their religion.
They settled in Boston, Watertown, and Roxbury.
They stuggled through the first winter after 200 people died
Salem Witch Trial Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3srowO2m95E&feature=related
This shows a pretty good understanding of what took place during the Salem witch trials. It also talks abo some of the people who were invloved.
This shows a pretty good understanding of what took place during the Salem witch trials. It also talks abo some of the people who were invloved.
Salem Witch Trials
A lady by the name Sarah Good was accused of being a witch because of muttering in 1962. Often many people were accused of doing witch craft because they went to the wrong church, talked to themselves, or are reclusive.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Thanksgiving
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o4J6b_y5RQ
This video is full of great facts about what the pilgrims went through on their journey and how they came to get along with the Indians! Its very interesting:)
This video is full of great facts about what the pilgrims went through on their journey and how they came to get along with the Indians! Its very interesting:)
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Eagle Dance
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pueblo+indians&search_type=&aq=f
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This video shows a popular dance done by the Pueblo Indians...called the Eagle Dance!
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http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pueblo+indians&search_type=&aq=f
This video shows a popular dance done by the Pueblo Indians...called the Eagle Dance!
Monday, August 24, 2009
Laguna Indians
The picture on the left is of the Laguna Idians who lost all their traditions and religous ways of teaching after being pushed around by other groups to come more like us americans. They worship and have many traditions that are very important to their tribe. Some of their many traditons are dancing and singing. Unlike us they worship their ancestors. Now they have been able to go back to their traditions and the way they worship unstead of having to do things the way us Americans want them to!
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