ELAALRL3

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.







*I think it is saying read all the stories and try to understand other time periods and what they did back then.







The Bloody Knife(Micmac)retold byS. E. Schlosser
Many and many a year ago, two Micmac warriors from rival villages got into a terrible argument. Harsh words were exchanged, and then knives were pulled. The warriors battled back and forth on the banks of a small creek. They fought with the ferocity of grizzlies, tearing at each other with their knives, ripping at each others clothes and hair.
Suddenly, one of the warriors slipped on the muddy bank and fell into the waters of the creek. His bloody knife slipped from his hand and sank down and down to the bottom, landing upon a rock just beyond his reach. The warrior strained his pain-wracked body towards the knife as his blood filled the waters of the creek, but it was just beyond his fingertips. He thrashed and clawed towards his knife, desperate to reach it before his rival killed him, but no matter how he stretched, it always slipped out of reach.
On the bank above, the victorious Micmac warrior saw his rival sink into the blood-stained waters and lay still, the knife just a hair-breadth beyond his fingertips. He did not rise again. The fallen man's people found him a few hours later and tenderly rescued his body from the rippling waters of the creek. But when they tried to retrieve his bloody knife from the rock beneath him, it always slipped beyond their reach, though the creek was not deep.
Many and many a year has passed since that bloody day by the creek, and still the blood-stained knife lies beneath the rippling waters of the creek. Whenever anyone tries to reach it, the knife slips out of reach. It is like trying to touch something on the bottom of the sea, although the creek itself is not deep. Even the rushing waters of the spring season do not move the mysterious knife or wash away the blood staining its blade.
For this reason, the creek is called Wokun - meaning "knife" by the Micmac people, and the white men call it "Bloody Creek







* I think my example is basically saying that you shouldn't fight just stay peaceful. The story is about warriors from different villages who got in to an argument. They started fighting by a bank and they was fighting with knifes, Then one warrior fell into the creek and when he tried to get his knife it kept slipping out of his reach. Everytime some one tried to get the knife out it kept slipping like it was saying theres no need for a knife just stay peaceful.








* The Natives i guess believed that they should stay peaceful and believed in different gods. So when the warrior tried to reach for his knife it kept slipping away.Whenever anyone tries to reach it, the knife slips out of reach. It is like trying to touch something on the bottom of the sea, although the creek itself is not deep.



* Puritans believed in one god and also thought everybody was born a sinner and there is no way to get all of god grace.



*some of the ways the are different are that one of them believed in one god and the other one don't. They have different gods and believed in different stuff also.

Yes i believed if they were able to meet they would clash. i think that because the Natives and Puritans did things in a different way. And one of the groups might try to take over and make the other group learn about their god and teach them to do stuff how they do it.



*ELAALRL5 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing.



cultures-
The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought.



clash-To come into conflict; be in opposition:



sermon -
A religious discourse delivered as part of a church service.



*Work Period

philosophy- a theory

scripture-writings of religions

Age of Rationalism-Early 17th century philosophy

Rationalist-exercise of reason

unalienable -Not to be separated



* The Rationalist believed in god as well but they thought you could solve things by science or find out how somthing came about.

* The Puritans didn't believe that because they thought god had control over everything really and thought if you did anything to look like you making fun of the god or doing evil stuff they could put you on trail and kill you if found guilty.



* Franklin is a good example of a Rationalist because instead of waiting on god or thinking god will change him. He starts to try to change his self and say that it's up to him to change his self. Example: My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, i judge it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time, and when i should master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on till i should have gone through the thirteen.

My Thirteen Virtues

1. Work- Do what i got to do to at work or at school.
2. Study- Come home and study my work or look at what i gotta do better.
3. Dress- Dress neat if im going some where or not.
4. Clean- Clean up my room or if i see something around the house help out.
5. Sleep- Try to get enough of sleep.
6.Peace- Try not to start with anybody and try to stay calm.
7. Bath- Take a shower every day.
8. Money- Get money everyday by any means.
9. Drugs- Stay drug free.
10. Job- Get a job before i get out of school.
11. Family- Put family before everybody and help them out.
12. God- Make God number one in my life
13. Chruch- Go to chruch every sunday or when i can.

Do you think you could reach moral perfection in this way?

* It kind of go both ways. The reason i say that is because you need God to help you change. So you might pray to god to help you be a better person. You might also try to change yourself by writing stuff down like Franklin did and try to do one of them at a time. So that why i think its kind of a go by ways.