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.
ELAALRL3.1.a.iii The student identifies and analyzes elements of poetry from various periods of American literature and provides evidence from the text to support understanding
Eseential Questions:
1. How do we use emotion as a pursuasive tool? To draw the reader into the story by using feelings that the reader can relate to, adding emphasis on the story.
2. What is the difference between emotion and reason? Emotion is feelings, as reason is reasoning behind those feelings.
Key Terms: Puritan, Original Sin, Imagery, Similie, Metaphor,
Figurative language: personification, imagery, metaphor, conciet, simile, metonymy, synecdoche, hyperbole, symbalism, allusion
I believe in this unit i will be learning alot about using emotion in litterature, as well as reason. I think i will be learning the deffinitions of Puritan, Original Sin, Imagery, Similie, and Metaphor, and also learn how to use personification, imagery, metaphor, conciet, simile, metonymy, synecdoche, hyperbole, symbalism, allusion in my own writing.
Compare: Contrast:
The Puritans and Native Americans had very different views of god. I could definatly see why they would have clashed. Some differences is the Native Americans believed in many gods, as the Puritans believed in only one god. The Native americans viewed there gods as the creator of everything, and a generous god that they worshipped. The Puritans seen god in a very different point of view, they saw him as a savior, but not as generous. The Puritans believed everyone was born of sin, and unless you were a saint you could not be saved and you go strait to hell. The Native americans had a very different view of the afterlife then the Puritans, they were much more spiritual and believed the spirit continues to live as the body dies.
The sermon i listened to about Puritans was based more on emotion then reason. They emphasised hell alot and the wrath of god, but they only really had one reason, which is we were born a sinner because of adam and eve. The Puritans believed everyone was born a sinner, and god only saves a certain few, but there was no reason behind why he saves those certain few. They believed jesus died for those certain few, but again didnt give reason. They said everyone else is going to hell, which seems to me the emotion of being scared. They also believed there was no was to earn gods grace, which is also pretty emotional.
Simile example: He used simile by comparing god as an angry god.
Imagery example: He provided a clear image of hell, firery lakes, and so on.
The life of Olaudah Equiano:
This is a story about a slave named Olaudah Equiano. She grew up with her sister and loved her sister very much but very soon they were both kidnapped. They walked a great distance and soon had another master. They were then split apart and went to new homes. They reunited once again in their life but was soon torn apart again. Olaudah had many different masters and travelled in a few different countries. Her story was mostly of her distress.
"I still look back with pleasure on the first scenes of my life, though that pleasure has been for the most part mingled with sorrow"
"We were then unbound, but were unable to take any food; and, being quite overpowered by fatigue and grief, our only relief was some sleep, which allayed our misfortune for a short time. The next morning we left the house, and continued travelling all the day. For a long time we had kept the woods, but at last we came into a road which I believed I knew. I had now some hopes of being delivered"
"the only comfort we had was in being in one another's arms all that night, and bathing each other with our tears"
Those were some quotes from the story showing ways the narrator used emotion. He used emotion in the story so the reader can sort of imagine and feel the emotions that he was trying to percieve in the story. The main emotions used in this story was agony, distress and very sad emotions.
"To my dear and loving husband" by Anne Bradstreet
Her thoughts in this poem were love, she uses a loving tone in writing this poem. Puritans believe in original sin, so in the poem she believes that they will die together and be together afterlife.
In this unit i learned how emotion was used in writing as well as different points of views, i learned what a simile is, and also imagery. I also learned the puritans beliefs and compared them to the native americans beliefs.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Unit 2 journal accounts and Historical narratives
ELAALRL1.2.c The student analyzes, evaluates, and applies knowledge of the ways authors use language, style, syntax, and rhetorical strategies for specific purposes in nonfiction works.
ELAALRL1.2.a The student analyzes and explains the structures and elements of nonfiction works of American literature such as letters, journals and diaries, speeches, and essays
Essential Questions:
1. How does someone's point of view affect how they portray events in a story?
It all depends on how there oppinions were and how they felt, if they were a primary source or a secondary source. More biased people could portray the events in a story different then how it really happened.
2. What are the advantages of primary sources? The disadvantages?
An advantage of a primary source is they were actually there to write the history, a dissadvantage is since they are the primary source they can alter in their writings what really happened to make them look better or include there biased oppinions.
Key Terms
1. Primary Source
2. Objective vs. Subjective
3. Writer's Purpose
I believe in this unit i will be learning alot about writing. I think i will learn many different techniques and also learn past american litterature techniques as well. I will learn an authors point of view as well as the sources obtained to write a speech, essay or maybe a poem.
"The General Historie of Virginia"
Valuable to History:
"From May to September, those that escaped lived upon sturgeon and sea crabs. Fifty in this time we burried; the rest seeing the President's projects to escape these misseries in our pinnance by flight (who all this time had neither felt want or sickness) so moved our dead spirits as we deposed him and established Ratcliffe in his place..."
"Six or seven weeks those barbarians kept him prisoner, many strange triumphs and conjurations they made of him, yet he so demeaned himself amongst them, as he not only diverted them from surprising the fort, but procured his own liberty, and he got himself and his company such estimation amongst them, those savages admired him. (refering to John smith)"
Stretching the Truth:
"Then Powatan more like a devil than a man, with some two hundred more as black as himself, came unto him and told him now they were friends and presently he should go to Jamestown and send him to great guns and a grindstone for which he would give him the country of Capahowasic and forever esteem him as his son Nantaquond."
"Journal of the First Voyage to America"
Valuable to History:
Afterwards I shall set sail for another very large island which I believe to be Cipango, according to the indications I receive from the Indians on board. They call the Island Colba, and say there are many large ships, and sailors there. This other island they name Bosio, and inform me that it is very large; the others which lie in our course, I shall examine on the passage, and according as I find gold or spices in abundance, I shall determine what to do; at all events I am determined to proceed on to the continent, and visit the city of Guisay, where I shall deliver the letters of your Highnesses to the Great Can, and demand an answer, with which I shall return.
Stretching the Truth:
"I suffered nothing to be touched, and went with my captains and some of the crew to view the country."
"The melody of the birds was so exquisite that one was never willing to part from the spot, and the flocks of parrots obscured the heavens"
I feel the Historical Importance outweighs the way they were written. It seemed from the two stories i read that they were mostly made up of facts. The founding of this country is significantly important, the biased oppinions, however, are not as important. I think they gave a good clear vision of the real history that happened, and you can easilly tell their oppinions from the facts.
I feel the biased oppinions outweighed the historical events in this story because most of it was describing the land and the tribe, and any of what was said could have been altered by deffirent points of views.
I applied knoledge in the way authors used language, style, syntax, and rhetorical strategies for specific purposes in nonfiction works by copying quotes from stories. I analyzed them by writing a short paragraph about these quotes. I also analyzed the structure of non fiction work by explaining the journals or diaries that i read.
ELAALRL1.2.a The student analyzes and explains the structures and elements of nonfiction works of American literature such as letters, journals and diaries, speeches, and essays
Essential Questions:
1. How does someone's point of view affect how they portray events in a story?
It all depends on how there oppinions were and how they felt, if they were a primary source or a secondary source. More biased people could portray the events in a story different then how it really happened.
2. What are the advantages of primary sources? The disadvantages?
An advantage of a primary source is they were actually there to write the history, a dissadvantage is since they are the primary source they can alter in their writings what really happened to make them look better or include there biased oppinions.
Key Terms
1. Primary Source
2. Objective vs. Subjective
3. Writer's Purpose
I believe in this unit i will be learning alot about writing. I think i will learn many different techniques and also learn past american litterature techniques as well. I will learn an authors point of view as well as the sources obtained to write a speech, essay or maybe a poem.
"The General Historie of Virginia"
Valuable to History:
"From May to September, those that escaped lived upon sturgeon and sea crabs. Fifty in this time we burried; the rest seeing the President's projects to escape these misseries in our pinnance by flight (who all this time had neither felt want or sickness) so moved our dead spirits as we deposed him and established Ratcliffe in his place..."
"Six or seven weeks those barbarians kept him prisoner, many strange triumphs and conjurations they made of him, yet he so demeaned himself amongst them, as he not only diverted them from surprising the fort, but procured his own liberty, and he got himself and his company such estimation amongst them, those savages admired him. (refering to John smith)"
Stretching the Truth:
"Then Powatan more like a devil than a man, with some two hundred more as black as himself, came unto him and told him now they were friends and presently he should go to Jamestown and send him to great guns and a grindstone for which he would give him the country of Capahowasic and forever esteem him as his son Nantaquond."
"Journal of the First Voyage to America"
Valuable to History:
Afterwards I shall set sail for another very large island which I believe to be Cipango, according to the indications I receive from the Indians on board. They call the Island Colba, and say there are many large ships, and sailors there. This other island they name Bosio, and inform me that it is very large; the others which lie in our course, I shall examine on the passage, and according as I find gold or spices in abundance, I shall determine what to do; at all events I am determined to proceed on to the continent, and visit the city of Guisay, where I shall deliver the letters of your Highnesses to the Great Can, and demand an answer, with which I shall return.
Stretching the Truth:
"I suffered nothing to be touched, and went with my captains and some of the crew to view the country."
"The melody of the birds was so exquisite that one was never willing to part from the spot, and the flocks of parrots obscured the heavens"
I feel the Historical Importance outweighs the way they were written. It seemed from the two stories i read that they were mostly made up of facts. The founding of this country is significantly important, the biased oppinions, however, are not as important. I think they gave a good clear vision of the real history that happened, and you can easilly tell their oppinions from the facts.
I feel the biased oppinions outweighed the historical events in this story because most of it was describing the land and the tribe, and any of what was said could have been altered by deffirent points of views.
I applied knoledge in the way authors used language, style, syntax, and rhetorical strategies for specific purposes in nonfiction works by copying quotes from stories. I analyzed them by writing a short paragraph about these quotes. I also analyzed the structure of non fiction work by explaining the journals or diaries that i read.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Unit one. origin myths/ oral tradition
Essential questions:
1. How can we use oral stories from ancient cultures to discover what was important to them? We can tell what was important to them by reading these stories because they usually input what was important to them in the stories.
2. What oral traditions do we use, and what does it reflect about our culture? We sit at a table for dinner, that reflects our culture cares about family traditions.
Key terms:
Oral Tradition: The act of delivering important cultural information (myths, customs, history, etc.) by word of mouth
Creation Myth: A folktale that explains how the world was created. These vary from culture to culture, and can be a good way to understand what they felt was important.
"WHAT I THINK THIS UNIT WILL COVER"
I believe unit one will cover the origion of past cultures. I am intersted in learning how past cultures did things, i believe by reading these stories i can get a good idea of the way they lived. I also think this unit covers the ancient myths of the bc era, which i am also intersted in learning.
"EARLY NATIVE AMERICANS"
Smith described the interactions of the colonists with different Native American tribes beginning with the battle upon arrival in Jamestown. Smith detailed his exploration of the land and involvement with different tribes and tribal leaders, which resulted in trading practices that sustained the colony. He noted that Powhatan and his people sent deer, bread, corn, turkeys, and other supplies during his stay in the colony. Smith also described being captured, injured, and rescued from certain Native American tribes. He was witness to healing ceremonies and learned more about native trading practices. Internal fighting, sickness, and changes in leadership plagued the colony, but Smith ended the relation with optimism concerning its survival. This work was first published under the title True Relation on 13 August 1608
This is a great example of both oral tradition and creation myth. John Smith described some of the tribes traditions like witnessing a healing ceremony. In the Powhatan culture changes in leadership often plagued the colony along with sickness and internal fighting.
"THE EARTH ON THE TURTLES BACK"
Dreams were important to the Onandaga people. You can tell because the chief gatthered everyone to try and make this dream come true, he even strained and strained more to uproot the tree.
"APACHE MYTH 2 OF CREATION OF THE EARTH"
The myth i read was from the apache indians. They believed in four gods but only one creator. They believed it all started in complete darkness then suddenly a white and yellow disk appeard with a small man with a beard, that was the "creator". He is the one that created light in the beginning and he looked down and created colours, yellow streaks of dawn to the east, and many colours on the west. clouds of different colours also emerged. "the creator" then created three other gods. A little girl, a small boy and a sun god.
Then he created celestial phenomena which was the winds and the tarantula. Out of the creators palms the four gods sweat mixxed together formed a little brown ball the size of a bean, that would eventually form to the earth. It formed to the earth by the work of the tarantula and the wind together. The wind went inside and blew the brown ball up, and the tarantula spun its cord on each end of the earth and stretched it untill it was immeasurable size, and then it became earth. Then the Creator created the rest of the beings and features of the Earth.
Some similairties of this myth to others i have read in this unit is that there is always one creator, and many gods. However in my culture more people believe in one god. I could tell from this myth that small boys and little girls were probably important to the apache tribe considering they believed that they were created from "the creator" as gods. The tarantula, and the wind is probably also very important to the apache people considering the myth is that they created the earth. A similarity to my culture from theres is that we believ that there was a creator that created the earth and it didnt just pop up.
The influence of traditional literature to america annalyzed in this blog was the story of john smith and pocahontas. John smith discovered this new land and it described what he went through and how early native american culture was. American fiction was formed through myth's of earlier tribes. I also showed some styles and forms of poetry in the stories.
1. How can we use oral stories from ancient cultures to discover what was important to them? We can tell what was important to them by reading these stories because they usually input what was important to them in the stories.
2. What oral traditions do we use, and what does it reflect about our culture? We sit at a table for dinner, that reflects our culture cares about family traditions.
Key terms:
Oral Tradition: The act of delivering important cultural information (myths, customs, history, etc.) by word of mouth
Creation Myth: A folktale that explains how the world was created. These vary from culture to culture, and can be a good way to understand what they felt was important.
"WHAT I THINK THIS UNIT WILL COVER"
I believe unit one will cover the origion of past cultures. I am intersted in learning how past cultures did things, i believe by reading these stories i can get a good idea of the way they lived. I also think this unit covers the ancient myths of the bc era, which i am also intersted in learning.
"EARLY NATIVE AMERICANS"
Smith described the interactions of the colonists with different Native American tribes beginning with the battle upon arrival in Jamestown. Smith detailed his exploration of the land and involvement with different tribes and tribal leaders, which resulted in trading practices that sustained the colony. He noted that Powhatan and his people sent deer, bread, corn, turkeys, and other supplies during his stay in the colony. Smith also described being captured, injured, and rescued from certain Native American tribes. He was witness to healing ceremonies and learned more about native trading practices. Internal fighting, sickness, and changes in leadership plagued the colony, but Smith ended the relation with optimism concerning its survival. This work was first published under the title True Relation on 13 August 1608
This is a great example of both oral tradition and creation myth. John Smith described some of the tribes traditions like witnessing a healing ceremony. In the Powhatan culture changes in leadership often plagued the colony along with sickness and internal fighting.
"THE EARTH ON THE TURTLES BACK"
Dreams were important to the Onandaga people. You can tell because the chief gatthered everyone to try and make this dream come true, he even strained and strained more to uproot the tree.
"This is very sad," he said, "for it is a
dream of great power and we must do all we can to make it come true.""APACHE MYTH 2 OF CREATION OF THE EARTH"
The myth i read was from the apache indians. They believed in four gods but only one creator. They believed it all started in complete darkness then suddenly a white and yellow disk appeard with a small man with a beard, that was the "creator". He is the one that created light in the beginning and he looked down and created colours, yellow streaks of dawn to the east, and many colours on the west. clouds of different colours also emerged. "the creator" then created three other gods. A little girl, a small boy and a sun god.
Then he created celestial phenomena which was the winds and the tarantula. Out of the creators palms the four gods sweat mixxed together formed a little brown ball the size of a bean, that would eventually form to the earth. It formed to the earth by the work of the tarantula and the wind together. The wind went inside and blew the brown ball up, and the tarantula spun its cord on each end of the earth and stretched it untill it was immeasurable size, and then it became earth. Then the Creator created the rest of the beings and features of the Earth.
Some similairties of this myth to others i have read in this unit is that there is always one creator, and many gods. However in my culture more people believe in one god. I could tell from this myth that small boys and little girls were probably important to the apache tribe considering they believed that they were created from "the creator" as gods. The tarantula, and the wind is probably also very important to the apache people considering the myth is that they created the earth. A similarity to my culture from theres is that we believ that there was a creator that created the earth and it didnt just pop up.
The influence of traditional literature to america annalyzed in this blog was the story of john smith and pocahontas. John smith discovered this new land and it described what he went through and how early native american culture was. American fiction was formed through myth's of earlier tribes. I also showed some styles and forms of poetry in the stories.
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