UNIT 4

The one that i have trouble in where the student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of theme in a work of American literature and provides evidence from the work to support understanding. Because i tend to get lost in stories and poems and what the whole point of it is.

I pick Disillusionment because it has to do with getting away from an illusion, or getting away from ideas that have no logical basis. Throughout all the units we have had different ways of how people live their life and how they look at things and this is another belief to some people so i highly feel that this will be something that i read and know more about throughout this lesson...

Soldies home by Ernest Hemingway
I felt really bad in this story for Krebs because he didn't teally have much going for him and didn't want to try to make things better. His family encouraged him to get out and try to have i life like the other boys, but he just got more angry as they would bring the subject to his attention.
Overall I liked the story even though it was hard to understand, but you could really see how this Krebs was doing in life and how it affected his families, and how his life had changed after coming back from the war. Nobody felt that he was important and had no desire to listen to anything he had to say.

I feel the author was trying to say that one can do for their country and may not be appreciated and that Krebs had went to the war but did not do anything when he had got back so not everyone in the earth feels they can do something like work or having a family he just stuck by himself basically. "All of the times that had been able to make them feel cool and clear inside himself when he thought of them; the times so long back when he had done the one thing, the only thing for a man to do, easily and naturally, when he might have done somthing else, now lost their cool, valuable quality and then were lost themselves." Krebs was trying to be in his own world and dillusioment was what he was doing!

Richard Corey poem
This poem was very interesting. It was short, but had alot of menaing to it by just what it was saying. Ive seen alot of stories similar to this, and some are stories that you could hear today and it really makes people want to know why something like this would have an ending the way it did!
This defines modernism because this man was admired he seemed to have everthing and nobody would have expected him to be unhappy because he always talked and just seemed to have alot going for him and then one night kills himself. "So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without the meat, and cursed the bread
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head." This refers to the dillusioment he seemed to be trying to free himself and now picture things that everything was perfect because even though he had alot obviously it seems that he and his situation were far from perfect.

Mending Wall by Robert Frost
This poem was very confusing and long. I didnt get it that much but all i know is that overall this poem shows me that he was trying to say that he liked the wall even though he broke it every winter. so this would relate to disillusionment because he seemed to be freeing himself in a way with his actions to this wall and how he felt about it. "Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence."





A dream deferred
This poem was very short and didnt seem to have alott of meqaning but it did have a point and does refer to modernism. The way it referred to was when you can't just go based on illusions because that was not reality and just because your seeing something doesn't neccessarily mean it could be done and when your dreaming of something its not reallt reality so you can take that serious! But you know what they say some dreams can come true but you have to believe!! "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore--
And then run?"

The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes
This poem was being told from an african-american and what he has been through and how he has lived his life and the success that he had made throughout his life which deals with alot of modernism like the harlem renaissance when alot of african-americans had achieved many things and started feeling their success."I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers." This shows how he felt about his achievments!

Incident
This poem deals with an african-american not being looked at the same just because of he color. He had done alot in Baltimore they were good from his time their but out of everything the only thing he thinks about was wehn that one day he seen a boy not much bigger than him he was young but he smiled at the boy and the other boy suck out his tongue and called him a nigger! This refers to the Harlam renaissance and how african-americans were not getting respect just because of their color which was not fair at all!!! "And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, "Nigger."

The standard that i had chose that was difficult to me at the beginning of the lesson i have succeeded in now throughout this lesson i have read these poems and like the ones about the african americans when i had to connect modernism with it the harlem renaissance was connected closely with what the themes of these poems were trying to say so it gave me a better understanding of the poem and the theme over all!

Unit 3

My fall would be dark romanticism although they have similarities to the transcendantalist I don't think that i would exactly feel that reactions happen based on things before it. i'm more of a transcendantalist i feel that if my mind is telling me something it is something that i should do, and not always have i had good outcomes but never horrinble only things that would soon to benefit me. If my head is telling me something i don't just think about over and over agian i will do it because i feel i have to and im supposed to. I've never had evil thoughts so i can't really talk much on that part, but i doubt i will have something in my head telling me to do evil!!!

The story BLACK CAT by Edgar Allen Poe.
I thought the story was kind of normal at first just any old regular happy guy, but the more i read the more i started having predictions on what the story was leading to. I thought it was a very strange story, but how it played out made alot of since! He was very happy at first, but ended in a tragedy. he was very descriptive about what was going on which made the story very interesting, and i don't get into alot of stories!!!!
The way that this story relates to how dark romantics do not agree with the Transcendantalists. Is because he was a man that was very happy at first, and then he got marrired and they had animals, and he would treat the black cat better than all the other animals, but he got very annoyed with the prescence of the black cat being aroundall the time and ended up killing it. Then a new cat came to his prescence and he was ok with it at first, but then got annoyed with it as well to as he was tring to kill that cat he accidentaly killed his wife. M y evidence from the story "Uplifting an axe, and forgetting, in my wrath, the childish dread which had hitherto stayed my hand, I aimed a blow at the animal which, of course, would have proved instantly fatal had it descended as I wished. But this blow was arrested by the hand of my wife. Goaded, by the interference, into a rage more than demoniacal, I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. She fell dead upon the spot, without a groan." Because of the way he treated the last cat it came back to him and killed his wife that was the evil that had came upon him like dark romantics belive us humans have.

"THE RAVEN"
This poem was kind of confusing and boring, but the more you keep listening the more you understande what the man is trying to let you know. The thing that stood out to me was how he expressed his emotions due to the loss of his wife who was dying while he wrote this poem in another room. The raven was very interesting and how he come about through the mans chamber door!
This poem showed anti-transcendental by telling how people can be evil. The transcendantalist did not belive people were just naturally evil they belived that god was the one who spoke through their minds and was telling them what to do, but in this poem God was not the one controlling everything.
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." This was the guy referring to how the bird was speaking and taken over him and wanted to be happy again. The transcendanalist did not belive in evil and there was involved in this poem and the bird and everything was all in his head kinda expressing his saddness which just shows that he did not have a perfectly clear mind more so insane!

I did the two stories on "a story of an hour" and "the battle of Mr.Convey" and explained which part to you that i liked the most which was realism.

MY STORY!!!
There was a girl named Stephanie she was only 14 years old and had a mama who was an acholic and always sat around the house and didn't even care were her daughter was and a abusive stepdad who always beat on Stepanie till she had bruises and couldn't walk anymore. Stephanie felt like she had nothing in herr life but one thing! which was her boyfriend! That was the one thing that ever made her happy was when she was with her boyfriend, but this later caused complications to her life as well. She had gotten pregnant by him and had no money to support the baby, and had abusive parents who were not going to like the idea of her having a baby. Her boyfriend didn't like the news as well and left her for another girl. Now stephanie had nothing no family, no boyfriend, and no home. She was very depressed and decided she would take her life and her baby's that very night.So that night when her stepdad had went to the store and her mom finally passed out on the couch, she went into a dresser in the living room and got her stepdad's gun out held it to her head and shot herself and took her depression all away.
The social issue abusive parents and could also be teen pregnancy. This represents realism because of the description of the abusive parents and the way she had killed her and her baby's life you didn't have to imagine it, it was pretty clear and descriptive of what happened.

The first standard i used when i wrote my story i used my evidence to backup my point of the story. The third standard i also used because i have wrote a variety of types of writings like poems and short stories they are all different, but they all have a theme or a concept to them.

LIT 11 UNIT TWO

A theme is the point you get across or what a writer is trying to get you to know when reading a short story, poem, a book etc. There can be mutiple themes to a story so im sure i would come across one! Yeah i would take it out of the story maybe some lines that were in there to support my theme.

RIP VAN WINKLE
In his story he uses alot of example os romanticism. Romanticicm is the school of thought that emphasizes intuition over logic, and feeling over reason. one example that he uses is nature. He said in the story "The Kaatsberg, or Catskill Mountains, have always been a region full of fable. The Indians considered them the abode of spirits, who influenced the weather, spreading sunshine or clouds over the landscape, and sending good or bad hunting seasons." This was the example as far as nature he was talking about the mountains and describing its beauty and it could take you away from a bad situatuion and turn it in to something good.

Another example of romanticism that he used in the story was imagination. One day Rip Van Winkle had seen a little elf and although he was unsure about the elf him and the elf went up a gulley and seen new things that they werent aware of before. While also describing the sights of nature they had seen as well. my evidence on this example: "He was a short, square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard.
keg, that seemed full of liquor, and made signs for Rip to approach and
assist him with the load. Though rather shy and distrustful of this new
acquaintance, Rip complied with his usual alacrity; and mutually relieving
one another, they clambered up a narrow gully, apparently the dry bed of a
mountain torrent." He used imagination because in reality there wouldn't be a such thing as an elf.

Thanotopsis by William Cullen Bryant
My examples of Romanticism from the poem:
1. He used imagination in his poem when he was saying that the nature was talking to the people who were afraid if dying. In reality nature doesn't really talk to you, but in the story it did which made it more intersting to read and listen to.

2. He also used examples of Nature when he was talking about death and if you were scard of dying that mother nature itself had the voice to help you.

3. He also had the example of common poeple as well he spoke aboput the speechless babe, and the gray-headed man and how they will come together and others should follow. It was saying that as far as the common and ordinary people are going to die the same as a king or a queen would they are not going to die in a special that an ordinary person wouldn't, they are going to die the same.

The Georgia standards:
I have achived the first standard by supporting my anwers with evidence in a poem or story. the 2nd assighment and the 3rd kind of is my evidence that helped me achieved this standard because we had to take things out of that story and poem as evidence for our examples which gave me an understanding of it. I achived the 2nd standard by reading poems and coming up with a theme to make me understand what the poem was trying to say whether i know every word they used in the poem or not. i have also reached the third standard because i do use alot of things that i read and relate them to other things in history or another story, and you can get a better understanding of what your reading.

Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
What stuck out to me in the story was basically that Nature is a key to everything. It talked to you and it was your source if you ever needed anything. Basically, you are nothing ithout nature it makes you the person you are. You should love and appreciate Nature. My evidence from this story was "I am a lover of uncontained and immoral beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages."

This story is a good example of the Transcendentalists because in the story they used Nature as the key to everything that it was more dearing than any other thing in the streets or villages. The Transcendentalists believed that if a person was in touch with their surroundings and nature that they could communicate with God buy their work and that people were pure and not necessarily born a sinner like the original sinner concept made out to belive.

Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The understanding that you get from this story is that you rely on yourself that you don't use other people to get you through life and the obstacles in it. Any of your mistakes are your own you can't blame another person. My evidence from the story is this quote "With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall."

This story is an example of the Transcendentalists because they relied on thereselves thEy didnt belive in the concept of the orignal sinner that adam and eve started with their first sin they believed that everybody was pure and good and talk to god through their work and thats how God had thoughten about us was through our work so that is where the self reliance comes into place.

WILDERNESS VIDEO
The man in the video WILDERNESS belived he was meant to bi in the wilderness not just to fream it, but to actually do it. He felt that he had to test himself and find out what he was capable of in thw wilderness. So he stayed their for over 30 years surviving and exploring through the wilderness because he felt he was suppose to which shows that he listened to his mind as the transcendalists belive is the mist powerful thing in the world.

unit one

In my personal opinion i think the standard means that every lesson or work you do helps you understand more about literary works through the different lessons you have completed and understand. With the connections of historical backgrounds and writings you understand more of what your trying to learn. It is important to master the standard that way you have a complete understanding, and your not missing anything that could possible get you lost!! What i'm understanding from this standard is that things in our history are connected to us and what we do today because we use how people said or learned things in the past to help us today.





RESEARCH:


Canyon de chelly by Simon Ortiz




Lie on your back on stonethe stone carved to fitthe shape of yourself.Who made it like this,knowing that I would be alongin a million years and lookat the sky being blue forever?
My son is near me. He sitsand turns on his buttand crawls over to stones,picks one up and holds it,and then puts it in his mouth.The taste of stone.What is it but stone,the earth in your mouth.You, son, are tasting forever.
We walk to the edge of a cliffand look down into the canyon.On this side, we cannot seethe bottom cliffedge but lookingfurther out, we see fields,sand furrows, cottonwoods.In winter, they are softly gray,The cliffs' shadows are distant,hundreds of feet below;we cannot see our own shadows,The wind moves softly into us,My son laughs with the wind;he gasps and laughs.
We find gray root, old wood,so old, with curious twistsin it, curving back into curves,juniper, pinon, or somethingwith hard, red berries in spring.You taste them, and they are sweetand bitter, the berries a delicacyfor bluejays. The plant rootedfragilely in a sandy placeby a canyon wall, the sun bathingshiny, pointed leaves.My son touches the root carefully,aware of its ancient quality.He lays his soft, small fingers on itand looks at me for information.I tell him: wood, an old root,and around it, the earth, ourselves.





QUESTION PART:



The example they gave let you picture what the boy was doing and what it would be like to be there at that exact moment! I think it's about teaching the features of the earth and nature itself and what we know is in our earth. I chose this one because im a type of person who loves to be outside and learn different things and features in our earth, and what they are on the earth to do and how it could be bad or good to us. This poem gave alot of details of what we see on our earth today!






WORK PERIOD:



The comparison to the video and my native american poem is that they both included people and earth and what we should be greatful for like life itself. That they do things differently. They have diffrent belifs and who they worship but they both have a god. Since they have opinions about their religion and what not yes they could clash because of their deifferences because not everybody might believe that "There is nothing between you and Hell, but the air it is only the power and pleasure of God that holds you up.



VOCABULARY 5:
Ben Franklin flyed a kite in a lightning storm because he wanted to fid out what would happended while lightning was out. He didn't agree with the Puritan that God did everything, and people did not need to be scared things. This was the idea of the 18th century in America,called the Age of Reason or the Age of Rationalism.
Deism- was ideas that did not have to do with church.
Declaration of independence- wrote to give people certain rights.

WORK PERIOD 6:
The difference i found between puritans and rationalists were that the puritans belived everything happended because of God, but the rationalist however belived in God , but not that he controlled everything that part of it was nature and science, and that Gods intantions were to create the universe and let human figure out how to work and control it. People still have opinions on how our earth is and how it stated its all around the world it was just a matter of how you grew up and what you were taught to believe!

7: Example: Benjamin Franklin was a good rationalist by the things he did to improve his life. Like the thirteen virtues he used to improve his lif. For example the virtue number two SILENCE:speak not but what may benefit others or yourself: avoid trifling conversation. Benjamin Franklin used a book like a chart to see his porgression in the thirteen virtues this showed how was a good rationalist.

8: MY THIRTEEN VIRTUES

1. Respect yourself and others
2. Do your body right and stay healthy
3. Achieve all goals
4. Help the family and frinds
5. Never let someone misguide you
6. Never fear of losing a person who doesnt fear of losing you
7. Do not disrespect earth
8. Make good decisions through mistakes
9. Follow your religion
10. Do things to the best of your ability
11. Do not hang on a horrible past
12. Never give up on life




Unit one has gave me an understanding of how the puritans follow things and how the rationalist did things. The difference was the puritans thought god would get them to be a better person, and the rationalist knew what they were doing bad at and they would make like a list of it and weekly see how they have improved on it! That just shows how people do things differently in order to better themselves and neither way is necessarily wrong, but one could possible work better!It helps with the Georgia standards by relating what we work on today and what was in our history, and it gives you a comparision and understanding when reading it!In these assignments we were able to identify evidence in the stories which means we got an understanding and have completed that standard.