tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18799491878419163342024-03-18T03:47:53.409-04:00AP English Language 2015-2016The AP English Language and Composition course is designed to enable students to become skilled readers and writers in diverse genres and modes of composition. As stated in the Advanced Placement Course Description, the purpose of the Language and Composition course is “to enable students to read complex texts with understanding and to write papers of sufficient richness and complexity to communicate effectively with mature readers” (The College Board, May 2007, May 2008, p.6).Ms. Gamzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962741187408442084noreply@blogger.comBlogger735125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879949187841916334.post-85968499485089104462016-07-08T16:58:00.003-04:002016-07-08T16:58:20.377-04:00AP Language Test ScoresSo proud of all of you!<br />
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I hope you were all able to get your test scores. Do not be disappointed if the score was not what you wanted. Remember that you challenged yourselves and did well in the year long course and on the NYS Common Core Exam. As a class, we really did well throughout the year and on the test itself! THANK YOU!<br />
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If you did not get the score, though, let me or your counselor know.<br />
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I look forward to possibly writing all of you fine recommendations for next year with these results in mind. Be sure to ask me in September through the College Application procedure. I'm there for you!<br />
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Ms. GamzonMs. Gamzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962741187408442084noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879949187841916334.post-90484086123042311532016-06-10T06:04:00.002-04:002016-06-10T06:04:55.947-04:00Moby Dick<h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading" lang="en">
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<td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville" title="Herman Melville">Herman Melville</a></td>
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<td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel" title="Novel">Novel</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_fiction" title="Adventure fiction">adventure fiction</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_%28genre%29" title="Epic (genre)">epic</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_fiction" title="Nautical fiction">sea story</a></td>
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<i><b>Moby-Dick; or, The Whale</b></i> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel" title="Novel">novel</a> by American writer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville" title="Herman Melville">Herman Melville</a>, published in 1851 during the period of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Renaissance_%28literature%29" title="American Renaissance (literature)">American Renaissance</a>. Sailor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_%28Moby-Dick%29" title="Ishmael (Moby-Dick)">Ishmael</a> tells the story of the obsessive quest of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Ahab" title="Captain Ahab">Ahab</a>, captain of the whaler <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pequod_%28Moby-Dick%29" title="Pequod (Moby-Dick)">Pequod</a></i>, for revenge on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Dick_%28whale%29" title="Moby Dick (whale)">Moby Dick</a>,
the white whale which on an earlier voyage destroyed his ship and
severed his leg at the knee. The novel was a commercial failure and out
of print at the time of the author's death in 1891, but during the 20th
century its reputation as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Novel" title="Great American Novel">Great American Novel</a> was established. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">William Faulkner</a> confessed he wished he had written it himself,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence" title="D. H. Lawrence">D. H. Lawrence</a> called it "one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world", and "the greatest book of the sea ever written".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> "Call me Ishmael" is among world literature's most famous opening sentences.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Buell_2014.2C_367_3-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#cite_note-Buell_2014.2C_367-3">[3]</a></sup><br />
The product of a year and a half of writing, the book draws on
Melville's experience at sea, on his reading in whaling literature, and
on literary inspirations such as <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare" title="Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible" title="The Bible">the Bible</a>. The detailed and realistic descriptions of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_hunting" title="Whale hunting">whale hunting</a> and of extracting whale oil, as well as life aboard ship among a culturally diverse crew, are mixed with exploration of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_class_in_the_United_States" title="Social class in the United States">class</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_status" title="Social status">social status</a>, good and evil, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence_of_God" title="Existence of God">existence of God</a>. In addition to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative" title="Narrative">narrative</a> prose, Melville uses styles and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_device" title="Literary device">literary devices</a> ranging from songs, poetry, and catalogs to Shakespearean <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_direction" title="Stage direction">stage directions</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliloquy" title="Soliloquy">soliloquies</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aside" title="Aside">asides</a>.<br />
Dedicated to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne" title="Nathaniel Hawthorne">Nathaniel Hawthorne</a>, "in token of my admiration for his genius", the work was first published as <i>The Whale</i> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>
in October 1851, and under its definitive title in New York in
November. Hundreds of differences, mostly slight and some important, are
seen between the two editions. The London publisher censored or changed
sensitive passages and Melville made revisions, as well, including the
last-minute change in the title for the New York edition. The whale,
however, appears in both editions as "Moby Dick", with no hyphen.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> About 3,200 copies were sold during the author's life.Ms. Gamzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962741187408442084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879949187841916334.post-47697070907276369162016-06-09T11:36:00.001-04:002016-06-09T11:36:38.998-04:00Young Goodman Brown<a href="https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=young+goodman+brown&&view=detail&mid=895329AFEA6653CDA757895329AFEA6653CDA757&FORM=VRDGAR">https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=young+goodman+brown&&view=detail&mid=895329AFEA6653CDA757895329AFEA6653CDA757&FORM=VRDGAR</a>Ms. Gamzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962741187408442084noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879949187841916334.post-29772147634903490892016-06-06T14:00:00.001-04:002016-06-06T14:01:12.145-04:00American Romanticism<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
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AMERICAN LITERATURE: AMERICAN ROMANTICISM OVERVIEW</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Today we will begin a 2 day lesson on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter" and then continue with the other stories you were asked to read over the break.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">EQ: After close reading and analysis of the story, explore and evaluate the relevance of the following key ideas represented in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 19c.short story “Rappaccini’s Daughter” have for the modern reader?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">But first, let's take a moment to do a QUICKWRITE on your first reactions to "Rappaccini's Daughter". Post your responses on the blog (or use looseleaf paper period 9). Five minutes, GO!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Now let's take a look at American Romantics who are considered anti-Transcendentalists (or the Dark Romantics) because of their fascination with evil, death and the supernatural.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.brighthubeducation.com/high-school-english-lessons/6429-notes-on-american-romanticism-class-handout/" style="color: #771100; text-decoration: none;">http://www.brighthubeducation.com/high-school-english-lessons/6429-notes-on-american-romanticism-class-handout/</a><br />
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Romanticism in American Literature brought us some of the world's greatest writers. Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving and Henry David Thoreau are still studied in classrooms throughout America and in Europe.</div>
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Romanticism</h3>
Romance describes strange lands and wonderful adventures. It allows the writer greater latitude to include the marvelous with the real. The romance may include the traditional hero with white hat on the white horse; the evil villain with the long black mustache; the lovely young woman in need of rescue, and the hairbreadth rescue itself. Romanticism as a movement began in the late 18th century, moved to England where it developed an emphasis in the glorification of nature, the supernatural, and the rebel—the individual against society. It spread to America in the early to mid 19th century and is represented in such writers as Hawthorne, Poe, and Cooper.</div>
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American Romanticism</h3>
In the 1830’s, America began to experience the impact of the Romantic Movement that was transforming European civilization. Like the European movement of which it was an offshoot, American Romanticism was in a broad sense a new attitude toward nature, humanity, and society that espoused individualism and freedom. Many trends characterized American Romanticism. Among the most important are the following:<br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">A reverence for nature (Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">A concern with the impact of new technology (locomotive)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">An idealization of women</li>
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Important Writers</h3>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862): <i>Walden, Civil Disobedience</i></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><i></i> Washington Irving (1783-1859): <i>The Devil and Tom Walker,</i> <i>Rip Van Winkle Tales</i></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849): <i>The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death</i>, <i>The Raven</i> and many many more</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) <i>The Scarlet Letter</i>, <i>The House of the Seven Gables, Doctor Heidegger’s Experiment, Young Goodman Brown</i></li>
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Analysis of "Rappaccini's Daughter"</h3>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b>American Romanticism</b>: The tenets of American Romanticism include the dangers of technology and a fascination with death and the supernatural. Rappaccini's unprioritized love for science and the supernatural aura surrounding Beatrice satisfy these <a href="http://www.brighthubeducation.com/high-school-english-lessons/6429-notes-on-american-romanticism-class-handout/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #771100; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">aspects of American Romanticism</a>.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b>Characterization</b>: "Rappaccini's Daughter" is a short story with no hero and no likable characters. Although we sympathize with Giovanni, his obsessive nature and unwillingness to listen to reason make him unlikeable. Beatrice endangers Giovanni's life. Rappaccini is a brilliant scientist but a lousy human. Pietro Baglioni appears to be the the voice of reason but acts treacherously to defeat his rival, as evidenced by his final comment and obvious jealousy.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b>Allusions</b>: References to the Garden of Eden, direct and indirect, abound.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b>Symbolism</b>: The poisonous plant and deteriorating statue in the center of the garden symbolize physical and moral corruption. The color purple, a hybrid color, symbolizes the mixing of ingredients and the mixing of good and evil in humans. Rappaccini's black clothing represents his diabolical nature.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b>Setting and Mood</b>: Hawthorne's physical description of the mansion and Giovanni's apartment help establish an ominous mood and foreshadows the story's tragic ending.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b>Paradox</b>: The controlling image of the story, the garden and Beatrice, is a paradox--a poisonous Eve and a poisonous Garden of Eden.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b>Theme</b>: Possible themes include the duality of human nature, the corrupting potential of science, lust, and jealousy.</li>
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"The work of my life is making poems," <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.shmoop.com/walt-whitman/citations.html#1" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f05a22; text-decoration: none;">1</a></span> declared Walt Whitman, the former printer and journalist who burst onto the literary scene in 1855 with his groundbreaking poetry collection <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Leaves of Grass</i>. From the moment of its publication, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Leaves of Grass</i> was unlike any book that America had ever read before. It was bold, lyrical, sexual, sensual, and uniquely American. The Transcendentalist sage Ralph Waldo Emerson (a huge Whitman fan) described the poem as "a remarkable mixture of the Bhagvat Ghita and the<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">New York Herald</i>."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.shmoop.com/walt-whitman/citations.html#2" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f05a22; text-decoration: none;">2</a></span> Whitman spent the rest of his life revising and expanding <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Leaves of Grass</i>, issuing new editions right up until his death in 1892 at the age of 72.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Readers of the book had one of two reactions: the poems were a work of genius, or they were obscene filth. Whitman's embrace of the body and his frank discussion of erotic love, including love between men, were scandalous to many of his mid-nineteenth century readers. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />He did not back down. Whitman was the self-appointed bard of American life, singing of men and women, North and South, soaring ideals, and the gritty reality of the physical world. His poetry reflected the truth of daily life. Yet possibly the truest thing he ever wrote came near the end of his career, when he pondered the legacy of his poems: "I tickle myself with the thought how it may be said years hence that at any rate no book on earth ever had such a history." <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.shmoop.com/walt-whitman/citations.html#3" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f05a22; text-decoration: none;">3</a></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;"><i>Herland, The Awakening, Their Eyes Were Watching God</i></b><br />
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Ms. Gamzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962741187408442084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879949187841916334.post-10412069443055301562016-04-27T06:13:00.000-04:002016-04-27T06:13:11.950-04:00Literature CirclesAGENDA:<br />
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Work in your Literature Circles.Begin discussing your presentation to the class.<br />
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Turn in a report about your discussion today. Report sheets are on my desk in 238.Ms. Gamzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962741187408442084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879949187841916334.post-23358209640817957622016-04-26T13:36:00.002-04:002016-04-26T13:38:40.585-04:00Feminist CriticismAGENDA:<br />
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We will be beginning our discussion of feminist criticism. While we are going through the basics of feminist criticism,<b> please be taking notes so that you have them for when you write your essay for the Women Writers unit!</b><br />
<b> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_433481872"> </a></b><a href="http://prezi.com/lxdkcbmu2rwh/feminist-literary-criticism/">http://prezi.com/lxdkcbmu2rwh/feminist-literary-criticism/</a><br />
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. You will each be given a copy of "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. Read it silently to yourself and annotate the story. Focus your annotations on:<br />
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<li>Which aspects of feminist criticism you can see in the story. If you were writing a feminist critique of Chopin's story, which approach would you take and what evidence from the text supports your analysis.</li>
<li>Pay close attention to the end of the story. What do you believe happens at the end of the story? What is your interpretation? What evidence from the text supports your interpretation?</li>
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4. After you read the story and annotate it, turn to the person next to you and take 5 minutes to discuss your final interpretations of the story.<br />
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5. After 5 minutes, we will pull together for a class discussion about how you were able to view Chopin' story through a feminist lens.<br />
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Homework: Make sure you are reading your novel and have your Literature Circle begin to prepare for your presentation to the class.<br />
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_lACb7hKJhqZWNIYzJBMDNJMlk/edit?usp=sharing">HOW TO WRITE FEMINIST CRITICISM: CHEAT SHEET</a>Ms. Gamzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962741187408442084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879949187841916334.post-59808324871384671332016-04-21T13:08:00.000-04:002016-04-21T13:08:00.804-04:00AP Test Prep and Review<a href="http://www.shmoop.com/ap-english-language/topics.html">http://www.shmoop.com/ap-english-language/topics.html</a>Ms. Gamzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962741187408442084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879949187841916334.post-54076996203983643872016-04-13T05:39:00.002-04:002016-04-13T06:01:49.596-04:00Day 2 Literarature CirclesAGENDA:<br />
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Continue to work in your Literature Circles. DAY 2.<br />
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Go over answers to 19th century packets and tests Ms. Gamzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962741187408442084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879949187841916334.post-60859647028523419132016-04-11T10:13:00.003-04:002016-04-11T10:13:49.501-04:00Literature Circles--Women Writers<span style="font-size: large;"><b>AGENDA:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>For Monday and Tuesday, April 11 and 12:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>First, finish the essay portion of Huckleberry Finn quiz if you have not already (15 minutes). If you have, begin reading your novel to get a head start on tomorrow's reading assignment.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Plan for at least 25-30 pages per day for discussion (or use chapters if that works better).</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Tomorrow begin Day 1 of Literature Circles and turn in one progress report for each group on a daily basis. At the end of this project, each of you should be able to turn in a completed packet showing that you prepared and performed the different roles.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span>Ms. Gamzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962741187408442084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879949187841916334.post-36314539057398178332016-04-08T06:21:00.001-04:002016-04-08T07:53:35.963-04:00Quiz on Huckleberry Finn<span style="font-size: large;">Quiz on Huckleberry Finn</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Select one essay to write</span>Ms. Gamzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962741187408442084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879949187841916334.post-38585406265179689662016-04-07T23:27:00.003-04:002016-04-07T23:28:57.776-04:00Poet PresentationsAGENDA:<br />
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This week we have been finishing poet presentations.<br />
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ASSIGNMENTS: 19th century packet multiple choice DUE FRIDAY 4/8<br />
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Quiz on Huckleberry Finn 4/8<br />
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Study websites like Spark, Bookrags, Gradesavers, Shmoop, etc.<br />
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Literary Circles Women Writers (19th and early modern):<br />
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Choose books: <i>Herland </i>by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, <i>Their Eyes Were Watching God </i>by Zora Neale Hurston, or <i>The Awakening </i>by Kate Chopin <br />
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<br />Ms. Gamzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962741187408442084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879949187841916334.post-35274733596664080572016-03-24T13:29:00.003-04:002016-03-24T13:33:01.251-04:00Learnerator Link/Poet PresentationsAGENDA:<br />
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This week we have been presenting our poets.<br />
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Have a good spring break and if you want to begin to prep for the AP exam, check out this link:<br />
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<a href="http://www.learnerator.com/ap-english-language">http://www.learnerator.com/ap-english-language</a>Ms. Gamzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962741187408442084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879949187841916334.post-51823967964663518952016-03-10T12:30:00.002-05:002016-03-10T12:30:54.835-05:00PSAT Presentation/Poetry<div class="MsoNormal">
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Poets.org<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.poets.org/poets" style="color: #771100; text-decoration: none;">www.poets.org/poets</a><br /><br />Modern American Poetry<br /><br /><a href="http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets.htm" style="color: #771100; text-decoration: none;">www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets.htm</a><br /><br />Poetry Society of America:<br /><a href="http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/qa_american_poetry/" style="color: #771100; text-decoration: none;">www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/qa_american_poetry/</a><br /><br /><br />Geraldine dodge readings:<br /><a href="http://www.dodgepoetry.org/past-festivals/" style="color: #771100; text-decoration: none;"><br />www.dodgepoetry.org/past-festivals/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/foolingwithwords/main_festival.html" style="color: #771100; text-decoration: none;"><br />www.pbs.org/wnet/foolingwithwords/main_festival.html</a><br /><br />CHECK WITH Ms. Gamzon for recordings of poets reading their poems</div>
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Ms. Gamzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962741187408442084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879949187841916334.post-88569159329819534862016-03-04T14:08:00.000-05:002016-03-04T14:08:25.170-05:00Huck Finn--Notice and Note Key PassagesAGENDA:<br />
Find key Notice and Note passages in Huck Finn Ch. 1-15<br />
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In groups of 4, work on analyzing CH. 1-15 in Huckleberry Finn for the following topics:<br />
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Group 1 CHARACTERS--present a character directory chart<br />
Group 2 SYMBOLS--present drawings of key symbols<br />
Group 3 SETTING--Create a map of the story so far--you may use your cellphone--spatial<br />
Group 4 PLOT--what are the key events chronologically (a timeline of character conflicts)? Note any subtle changes in Huck's behavior<br />
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Present findings to whole class<br />
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SATIRE DEFINITION</h2>
Satire is a technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, <a href="http://literarydevices.net/irony/" style="color: #771100; text-decoration: none;" title="irony"><span style="color: #3d97c2;">irony</span></a>, exaggeration or ridicule. It intends to improve humanity by criticizing its follies and foibles. A writer in a satire uses fictional characters, which stand for real people, to expose and condemn their corruption.<br />A writer may point a satire toward a person, a country or even the entire world. Usually, a satire is a comical piece of writing which makes fun of an individual or a society to expose its stupidity and shortcomings. In addition, he hopes that those he criticizes will improve their characters by overcoming their weaknesses.<br /><div style="float: none; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center;">
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SATIRE AND IRONY</h2>
Satire and <a href="http://literarydevices.net/irony/" style="color: #771100; text-decoration: none;" title="irony"><span style="color: #3d97c2;">irony</span></a> are interlinked. Irony is the difference between what is said or done and what is actually meant. Therefore, writers frequently employ satire to point at the dishonesty and silliness of individuals and society and criticize them by ridiculing them.<br /><h2 style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase;">
EXAMPLES OF SATIRE IN EVERYDAY LIFE</h2>
Most political cartoons which we witness every day in newspapers and magazines are examples of satire. These cartoons criticize some recent actions of political figures in a comical way.<br />Some shows on television are satire examples like <i>The Daily Show</i>, <i>The Colbert Report</i>, and <i>The Larry Sanders Show</i>. These shows <a href="http://literarydevices.net/claim/" style="color: #771100; text-decoration: none;" title="claim"><span style="color: #3d97c2;">claim</span></a> to target what they think are stupid political and social viewpoints.<br />Let us see a sample of Stephen Colbert’s social satire:<br /><blockquote>
“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.”</blockquote>
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Example #1</h3>
There are numerous examples of satire in Mark Twain’s <i>Huckleberry Finn</i>. He uses satire as a tool to share his ideas and opinion on slavery, human nature and many other issues that afflicted American society at that time.<br />Below are a few citations from the novel that demonstrate satire:<br /><div style="float: none; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center;">
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">“What’s the use you learning to do right, when it’s troublesome to do right and isn’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?” (Chap 16)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">“There warn’t anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn’t any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it’s cool. If you notice, most folks don’t go to church only when they’ve got to; but a hog is different.” (Chap 18)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">“The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that’s what an army is–a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any man at the head of it is beneath pitifulness.” (chap 22)</li>
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Example #2</h3>
Alexander Pope’s <i>The Rape of the Lock</i> is an example of poetic satire in which he has satirized the upper middle class of eighteenth century England. It exposes the vanity of young fashionable ladies and gentlemen and the frivolity of their actions. For example, Pope says about Belinda after losing her lock of hair:<br /><ol><blockquote>
“Whether the nymph shall break Diana’s law,<br />Or some frail china jar receive a flaw,<br />Or stain her honor, or her new brocade”</blockquote>
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Example #3</h3>
Jonathan Swift’s <i>Gulliver Travels</i> is one of the finest satirical works in English Literature. Swift relentlessly satirizes politics, religion, and Western Culture. Criticizing party politics in England, Swift writes,<br /><ol><blockquote>
“that for above seventy Moons past there have been two struggling Parties in this Empire, under the Names of Tramecksan and Slamecksan from the high and low Heels on their shoes, by which they distinguish themselves.”</blockquote>
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During Swift’s times, two rival political parties, the Whigs and the Tories, dominated the English political scene. Similarly, “The Kingdom of Lilliput” is dominated by two parties distinguished by the size of the heels of their boots. By the trivial disputes between the two Lilliputian parties”, Swift satirizes the minor disputes of the two English parties of his period.<br /><h2 style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase;">
FUNCTION OF SATIRE</h2>
The role of satire is to ridicule or criticize those vices in the society, which the writer considers a threat to civilization. The writer considers it his obligation to expose these vices for the betterment of humanity. Therefore, the function of satire is not to make others laugh at persons or ideas they make fun of. It intends to warn the public and to change their opinions about the prevailing corruption/conditions in society.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">big-bug (noun)</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> - an important person<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">4.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">pungle (verb)</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> - pay up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">5.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">raspy (adjective)</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> - harsh, irritating<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">6.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">fan-tods</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <b>(adjective)</b>- a state of nervousness or fear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">7.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">haggled</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <b>(verb)</b>- cut in a clumsy or awkward way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">8.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">pilot-house</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <b>(noun)</b>- a compartment on a steamboat in which the pilot works<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">9.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">rapscallions</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> - rascals, scoundrels<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">10.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">wigwam</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> - a hut built for shelter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">VOCABULARY FOR THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN CHAPTERS XVII- XXX</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">disposition</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> - desire, inclination<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">doxolojer</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> (doxology) - a hymn of praise to God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">3.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">frowsy-headed</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> - unkempt or sloppy looking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">4.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">greenhorns</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> - unsophisticated people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">5.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">histrionic</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> - theatrical<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">6.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">obsequies</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> - funeral rites<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">7.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">phrenology</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> - examining the shape of a person's head to tell his fortune<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">8.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">pommel </span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">- a bump at the front of a saddle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">9.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">pulpit</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> - a high table or lectern used for preaching<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">10.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">slouch</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> - a lazy or incompetent person<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Vocabulary for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapters XXXI – Chapter the Last<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">bogus</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <b>(adjective)</b>- false, fake<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">brickbat</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <b>(noun)</b>- any small, hard object used for throwing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">3.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">desperadoes</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <b>(noun)</b>- bandits, criminals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">4.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">fox-fire</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <b>(adjective)</b>- a glow from decaying wood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">5.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">mortification</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <b>(adjective)</b>- death of a body part<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">6.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">owdacious</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> (audacious) <b>(adjective)</b>- bold, impertinent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">7.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">pettish</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <b>(adjective)</b>- fretful<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">8.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">powderhorn</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <b>(adjective)</b>- a flask for holding gunpowder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">9.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">rascality</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <b>(adjective)</b>- mischief, wickedness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">10.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">stealthy</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <b>(adjective)</b>- secret, hidden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ms. Gamzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962741187408442084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879949187841916334.post-79924156524395636362016-02-23T13:47:00.002-05:002016-02-23T13:56:42.750-05:00Peer Edit Essays "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"AGENDA:<br />
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Review Realism<br />
<a href="https://prezi.com/sxdeimd3sn62/american-realism/">https://prezi.com/sxdeimd3sn62/american-realism/</a><br />
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Background comments on Twain's Essay:<br />
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In 1895, Mark Twain published his acerbic criticism of James Fenimore Cooper. In his essay <a href="http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/rissetto/offense.html"><i>The Literary Offenses of Fenimore Cooper</i></a>, Twain asserted Cooper's popular <i>Deerslayer</i>, a Leatherstocking tale, committed 114 "offenses against literary art out of a possible 115." Generally, Twain's biting mockery of Cooper's characterization, plot, and setting is considered by contemporary critics as unnecessary and unfounded.<br />
In <i>Mark Twain as Critic</i>, Sydney Krause asserts:<br />
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The sulfurous grumblings over Cooper is hardly the work of a judicious person, of a respectable citizen like Sam Clemens, who after the debacle of 1892, had made it an appoint of honor to pay his creditors one hundred cents on the dollar; rather, it belongs to a hoodwinking persona who puts up a good front but is not always entitled to the horror he exhibits and is not the unsuspecting reader he pretends to be. (128)</blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white;">John McWilliams in </span><i>The Last of the Mohicans: Civil Savagery and Savage Civility</i><span style="background-color: white;"> also agrees that Twain's attack is unjustified. He states:</span><br />
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Hilarious though Twain's essay is, it is valid only within its own narrow and sometimes misapplied criteria. Whether Twain is attacking Cooper's diction or Hawkeye's tracking feats, his strategy is to charge Cooper with one small inaccuracy, reconstruct the surrounding narrative or sentence around it, and then produce the whole as evidence that Cooper's kind of English would prevent anyone from seeing reality. (36)</blockquote>
Twain's intention, through his "sulfurous grumblings," is not simply to convince the reader of Cooper's inaccuracy; more so, he is defending his notions of literary and historical appropriateness. Twain, revolting against the entire Romantic tradition, used Cooper as a metonym for the literary characteristics Twain had fought so hard to eradicate. Krause comments that Twain's essay was;<br />
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more than a caveat against the pitfalls of romantic fiction; it was a plea for readers to accept the verdict of history that old-style romanticism--at best an exotic movement with a code of feeling engendered by a cult of sensibility, to which America opposed the cult of experience--that this brand of die-hard romanticism was a literary dead letter in post-Civil War America. (134)</blockquote>
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Who is James Fenimore Cooper?<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fenimore_Cooper" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fenimore_Cooper </a><br />
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