Thursday, September 24, 2009

Unit Three -- Dark Romanticism and Realism

ELAALRL4 The student employs a variety of writing genres to demonstrate a comprehensive grasp of significant ideas in selected literary works. The student composes essays, narratives, poems, or technical documents.- 1)I think that we will learn about the different writing texts ,and the main idea of the texts

Short Review
What is original sin?The original sin all goes back to Adam and Eve when they did and they made sins.
How did the Transcendentalists feel about it?They did not believe that the original sin committed by Adam and Eve made the rest of us sinners


2)What would your argument to this philosophy be? Are all people good? Is the voice inside people's heads the pure voice of God?My argument would be that all voices in people heads are not the voice of God.Some people may think God is talking to them,but he's really not.People does evil things,and god doesn't tell people to do evil things,so I would argue about that.



3)Which side of the divide do you fall? Are you closer to being a Transcendentalist or a Dark Romantic? Explain your answer with a short paragraph. I think that the side I'll fall for is the Dark Romantic,because Transcendentalist believes in the most crazies things.I think that god is the strongest power in the Universe,and they think the Human Kind is .And also they believed that people thoughts were the voice of god,but I doesn't agree with that.


4)The story I read was The Cast of Amontillado.This caught my interest ,because it was easy for me to understand.This story is very devious,and it seems like a lot of revenge,so that's how the story illustrates Dark Romantic.An very familiar example is -"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best i could; but when he ventured upon insult , I vowed revenge.".This is evil doing,and that Dark Romantic.


5)The Raven is a very interesting story.I read it two times to rally understand it good.A few lines that stuck out to me was "That I scarce was sure I heard you"--here I opened wide the door--Darkness there and nothing more. ".This evidence made me think the man was hearing things or imagining things.


The Anti Transcendental idea is that in the poem they thank that god cannot speak to the people,and this is a sign of evil from the devil.An example that caught my attention was -"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil!--Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,Desolate, yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted--On this home by Horror haunted--tell me truly, I implore--Is there--is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore".This is an major example of anti-transcendalists,because the devil is being talked about,and the Raven is an evil spirit,that's why the man seems likes he's loosing his mind.


6)The Raven to me is a symbol of death or the devil.And this symbolizes that someone has died,because a raven at night time has to symbolize something.


7)ELAALRL1 The student demonstrates comprehension by identifying evidence (i.e., examples of diction, imagery, point of view, figurative language, symbolism, plot events and main ideas) in a variety of texts representative of different genres (i.e., poetry, prose [short story, novel, essay, editorial, biography], and drama) and using this evidence as the basis for interpretation. For this standard,I symbolized what the Raven is in the story in question # 6.



ELAALRL2 The student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of theme in a work of American literature and provides evidence from the work to support understanding.This standard, I provides direct evidence in question #5,to support my answer.



ELAALRL3 The student deepens understanding of literary works by relating them to their contemporary context or historical background, as well as to works from other time periods.For this standard, I related how to Raven is anti transcendalists by comparison,because the Raven is a sign of evilness,and anti transcendalists are nothing but evil people.




8)a. details that specifically explain a characters actions, or detailed descriptions of a setting-This story is very interesting.It's about a lady named Mrs.Millard ,and she had a heart disease.Her sister tries to explain the news to her without making her loose it or stresses her.Somehow after hearing the news she isn't sad or miserable,she's happy.In the story it says "There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair",so this means she went in sat in an chair looking out a window.So toward the end of the story,she she felt happy about the death of her husband,and after that,her sister made her come down stairs,and someone was opening the door,and she died from a heart disease,the doctor said.


b. a social issue that Chopin wants to solve -A social issue that Chopin wants to solve,is that what she;s happy about the death ,mostly people would be sad or miserable."That's weired."



9)a. details that specifically explain a characters actions, or detailed descriptions of a setting.This story is about Fredrick Douglas.This story explain the actions on how he was in a fight with Mr.Covey,and how he was beaten so badly.Douglas worked as a slave and did his work.Douglas wanted respect so he told the master,and,Mr.Covey got tired and told to Douglas that "If I wouldn't have resisted he would have whipped me half so much.",so since then on Douglas earned respect from him.



b. a social issue that -The social issue,is that Fredrick is explaining how difficult slavery was for them,and how the slaves was treated.



10)A modern example of realism is a movie called Biker Boys.It's about a motorcyclist group in a town racing and going against other biker groups.This is realism,because in today's world,theirs motorcyclist groups doing that.Direct quote from the King of one of the motorcycle groups,"burn rubber not your soul".




11)To me,I like realism the best,because it like real life features,and nothing fake.


On this sunny hot summer day at the park was lots of boys playing basketball.While the boys was playing ,another boy came up and he asked to play,and they avoided him.Like 15 minutes after playing a game,they boy asked again could he join in to play,they still avoided him.While sitting to play the waiting boy,screamed once again"can I play".so after he screamed,he caught one of the players attention,and the player was huge.He weighted about 180 and 5"7,and the young boy was only 140 and 5 feet.The huge boy pushed him to the ground and put his big size 11 foot shoe on his chest,and said"No you cant play,and ask again and I will be forced to thrash you".So the boy got up and the teams resumed playing basketball,and the boy just sat and watched sadly.



My story is an example of Realism,because explain how real life features happen to kids at a park playing basketball.Lots of kids had been treated in this kind of way,and this isn't made up ,it's real ,it's happen before.


My story is a very good representation of realism,because it tells how the characters are and their feelings.The environment is at a park,that's realism.The main idea is that another boy,wants to join in ,and play basketball,but some bad ball players,want let him,and they doesn't even know if he's a good ball player or not.



12)ELAALRL1 The student demonstrates comprehension by identifying evidence (i.e., examples of diction, imagery, point of view, figurative language, symbolism, plot events and main ideas) in a variety of texts representative of different genres (i.e., poetry, prose [short story, novel, essay, editorial, biography], and drama) and using this evidence as the basis for interpretation.Yes,I've met this standard,because I have the ability to provided evidence from the stories,that I've read.



ELAALRL3 The student deepens understanding of literary works by relating them to their contemporary context or historical background, as well as to works from other time periods.Yes,I've also met this standard,this standard,talks about how to compare the historical background to the modern time.Like comparing old music to new music,but the same category of music,Ex"like T.I. to Tupac.












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