Finishing Walker's Expedition Essay

Agenda

Housekeeping Again: ALL H.W. must be handed in on time.You should have 3 of the following items complete: 1. Break with Tradition Blog 2. Irony Blog 3. Rhetorical Analysis graphic organizer 4. Rhetorical Device blog Any one of these assignments not received by 11:59 pm on  11/20/13 will not be accepted.   Remember code switching with Ruby Dee?  Ruby Dee reading Their Eyes Were Watching God

Construct plot summaries for the Alice Walker expedition In your groups from yesterday please organize your portion of the text into a graphic timeline. The goal is to linearly display the events of Walker’s expedition in chronological order while providing a brief summary.

Blog Study Mr. Johnson will model your blog assignment for tonight, and provide time to clarify questions and any other concerns about blogging. Today’s blog: Character development

Literature Circle Activity Mr. Johnson will assign lit circles and your role is to try to recreate a scene from the novel. The scene must be: Appropriate Creative AT LEAST TWO PAGES LONG Acceptable roles for activity: Actor, Director, Writer, or MC (narrator)

H.W.  Your Homework: Continue reading the novel through chapter 7. Create a Blog which describes a character from the novel and analyze that character’s actions, personality, and behavior. Be sure to include at least one literary element or rhetorical device.

Interposing an Essay by Alice Walker

Agenda

Housekeeping: Again, ALL H.W. must be handed in on time.You should have 3 of the following items complete: 1. Break with Tradition Blog 2. Irony Blog 3. Rhetorical Analysis graphic organizer 4. Rhetorical Device blog Any one of these assignments not received by 11/20/13 will not be accepted.

Literary Analysis Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Dtmhk6vJw    The Cool ONE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIhFJWVnsNw

Blogging Please spend 3-5 min alone trying to identify these AP rhetorical devices: personification, allusion, allegory, colloquialism, and irony on page 1 alone!!! Mr. Johnson will review these rhetorical devices in a few minutes as a part of Blog Instruction and Modeling Remember: Identify device/Theme→ State effect→ Describe Intent/Purpose Formative Assessment: Rhetorical Device Blog, again due 11/20.

Have you ever done puzzle-reading? We will interpose our discussion of TEWWG with an essay by Alice Walker entitled “Looking for Zora.” Each group will read 5 pages of text and report back to the class with a summary of the passage you read, noting key points and themes You must have a role: group orator, group scribe, group facilitator, group readers. Questions to consider for the class discussion: Where are we in the story? What are the key points? What are some quotes from the text that support your summary? What is the author’s purpose? Focus Questions to Consider: How is Eatonville characterized? How does the author

H.W.  Your Homework: Continue reading the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Read chapter 6

Procedure

House-Keeping, Hand in Blogs, Homework, etc. ALL H.W. must be handed in on time from now on unless there is an emergency

Alone in your seat, try to identify 3 literary terms/concepts/devices (terms from AP) be sure to cite page number and clearly identify 3 concepts Along with identifying these three concepts, please note which  literary technique was the most effective and why Your reflection should begin with: “In Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, there are three literary concepts which are impressively (add your own adverb or use mine) woven into the text. These concepts are…”

Synthesize readings from previous night in groups Use groups to examine the most  identified themes among its members Also answer these questions: What do the townspeople think of Janie? What do the men think of Janie and how do we know this? Who is Janie’s best friend? Why are the women mad at Janie? What does Janie’s best friend bring her?

Checking for understanding with class quiz http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=their-eyes-were-watching-god-chapter-1-reading-check-quiz

Your Homework: Continue reading the novel “The Eyes Were Watching God,” Read chapters five and six.

Essential Question: In what ways is African-American literature segmented from modernist writing in the early 20th century?

Visual Arts Slideshow: PowerPoint

Introduction to Harlem Renaissance and Zora Neale Hurston in Modernism Video on Harlem Renaissance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9idqeiACqn4 Explore origins of the New Negro Movement http://www.biography.com/tv/classroom/harlem-renaissance jazz movement integration of music but not literature: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/historyofjazz.htm connection to Zora Neale Hurston: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/255397/Harlem-Renaissance/272828/Fiction Biography of Zora Neale Hurston: Biographical Information http://zoranealehurston.com/about/

Pick up “Their Eyes Were Watching God” from the Library

Introduction to AAVE http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/AAVE/ AA Women Writers http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/powerprose/hurston/ Code Switching: Ruby Dee Reading TEWWG http://zoranealehurston.com/audio/their-eyes-were-watching-god#audio Homework: Read Chapters 1-4

A Clean Well-Lighted Place

 

“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” is one of Hemingway’s most acclaimed short stories, as much for its exquisitely sparse writing style as for its expertly rendered existentialist themes. Existentialism is a philosophical movement whose adherents believe that life has no higher purpose and that no higher being exists to help us make sense of it. Instead, humans are left alone to find meaning in the world and their lives. In “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” the older waiter sums up the despair that drives him and others to brightly lit cafés by saying simply, “It is a nothing.”

The term Lost Generation refers to the writers and artists living in Paris after World War I. The violence of World War I, also called the Great War, was unprecedented and invalidated previous ideas about faith, life, and death. Traditional values that focused on God, love, and manhood dissolved, leaving Lost Generation writers adrift. They struggled with moral and psychological aimlessness as they searched for the meaning of life in a changed world. This search for meaning and these feelings of emptiness and aimlessness reflect some of the principle ideas behind existentialism. Existentialism is a philosophical movement rooted in the work of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, who lived in the mid-1800s. The movement gained popularity in the mid-1900s thanks to the work of the French intellectuals Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus, including Sartre’s Being and Nothingness (1943). According to existentialists, life has no purpose, the universe is indifferent to human beings, and humans must look to their own actions to create meaning, if it is possible to create meaning at all. Existentialists consider questions of personal freedom and responsibility. Although Hemingway was writing years before existentialism became a prominent cultural idea, his questioning of life and his experiences as a searching member of the Lost Generation gave his work existentialist overtones.

Interactive Quiz on Shmoop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QAxqhkuZAU 

HMWK:  You should be familiar with modernist writing and Modernism by now. Irony is a primary characteristic/feature/theme of modernist literature (please see this abstract for a deeper level understanding of Ironic vision in Modern Literature). Your homework is to blog about how a modernist author uses irony to describe a specific character in one of the short stories we’ve read. Remember to do further research on text, here are a few resources: 

Literary Commentary on "A Clean Well-Lighted Place"
Annotations on "The Wasteland"
"A Rose for Emily" resources and information