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.

*I think the standard is saying by now you should be able to write in different writing styles.
And to take everything i learn so far and use it.

Short Review:
1. What is original sin? it starts with Adam and Eve.
2.They did not believe that the origianl sin committed by Adam and Eve made the rest of us sinners.

Mini-Lesson:
Nathaniel Hawthorne's -he would probably like it because he was shock about what his great grandfather did.

Herman Melville -Was Ahab pure of mind to sacrifice all the men he was charged with leading? Would a man who witnessed people eating human flesh agree that everyone was good and pure?

*No he was not pure for doing that because he had pose to been watching out fro his crew instead of letting them get ate up.

*I really dont know what another man would think about something like that but i don't think a person would think that every person is good a pure.

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 dont fall on either side because i believe what neither one of them think about the world. Because not every one in the world is good or not every one in the world is bad. But if i had to probably pick a side it might be Transcendentalist because i wouldn't go around thinking every is out to get me or evil.

Work Period:
3. Read either "The Black Cat" or "Hop-Frog", both by Edgar Allen Poe. As you read, keep the Dark Romantics' beliefs in mind because you will be asked to point out these beliefs in the story later. You can also choose to listen to "The Masque of Red Death" below; if you do, be sure to read the text as you listen:

*The Black Cat:describes himself as a caring and loving man, who from the earliest days of his youth was mocked by others for his timidity and concern for all living things. He married a woman who shared this same good natured attitude for all living things, and she brings many animals into the house because they share this in common. These creatures included "birds, gold-fish, a fine dog, rabbits, a small monkey, and a cat.











The man and his cat built a close bond that was nurtured for years, and the fact that not even his wife feeds the cat suggests this. His cat trying to hide from him because he is in such a violent state of mind; as a result, the narrator grabs Pluto abruptly and, when the startled cat bites his hand, he stabs its eye with a penknife, blinding it. The next day after he awoke from his drunken slumber, tired and hung over, the man is horrified to recall what he has done, and this guilt only drives him to drink even further, in an attempt to erase these feelings. Later, he grew infatuated with being violent again towards the cat











As a result, one morning he gleefully wrapped a rope around the poor cat's neck and dangled it from a tree, killing it. That night, however, a stroke of bad luck attacked the narrator as he awoke with his house ablaze, which he narrowly escaped with his wife before the entire property was burnt to the ground.









* he gleefully wrapped a rope around the poor cat's neck and dangled it from a tree, killing it.- Transcendantalists- didn't believe that people had evil in them and the Dark Romantics believe that people had evil in them.









The Raven




*Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."'Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more."









*And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me--filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating"'Tis some visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door--Some late visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door;This it is and nothing more."









It relates to anti-tranacendtalist on many differ ways.Example: But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; This shows thay the raven is treating the mans pain as a joke showing a sign of evilness. I think its saying that the raven dosen't care about the mans feelings and taking it as a joke. I also realized that the story is about a mans pain for his lost of his wife, Raven is a sign of death and thats why the raven was put in the story.









*6. A symbol is something (usually an object) that stands for a much larger idea. Poe uses symbolism very weill in "The Raven". Can you identify it, and then support what you say with some evidence and analysis?








vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow- i think it is saying that he is thinking about all the good moments what he can't never get back.









7. Check these out. If you are doing what you should, you are addressing all three (and even more) in this unit. Using your word as DIRECT evidence (cut and paste from your own post) tell me how you are meeting these standards.









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.









*i think i used this by taking what they said in the story and using it in my paragraph writing.









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.









*I think i used this one by just taking examples out of the stories i 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.

* I think this is saying you will understand better if you know what their time period was like and how they thought.







Your tasks:8. Read "A Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. You should be able to indentify the following in this story:



*a. details that specifically explain a characters actions, or detailed descriptions of a setting.

She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!"

There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself.

b. a social issue that Chopin wants to solve





i think that it is saying dont let anybody get the best of you.





Write a paragraph respone to a and b in which you explain how this story includes these aspects of realism. Each paragraph should have some direct evidence from "A Story of an Hour".





A. I think when she said free free under her breath and when she also was thinking about she can now live for her self. I think this is an example of realism because some people really think like that. A person might get married when they are younger or somthing but when they grow up they might want to be by their self because they will have more freedom.





B. How i think b shows example of realism is by how a person may feel when they are glad they got somthing out there life. When i put what i thought it was saying like dont let nobody get the best of you i got it from the story when she was kinda glad her husband was gone but when he came back she later die.





9. Read "The Battle with Mr Covey" by Frederick Douglass. Follow the same directions for #1. Go further on this one to explain what you think Douglass' purpose was for writing this. Your response should be three paragraphs.





*I think the purpose of Frederick Douglass writing this story was to show realism. What i got from realism so far is that its shows or tells you what is going on so you can do somthing about it. For example slavery is not here today because of people disapproval of what was going on. Another reason i think Douglass wrote this story was to teach you what slaves went threw so it will never happen again.


*A couple of examples of realism in the story where when the slaves was getting beat for resting or not finishing their job. A example of that was when he had no more energy and fell to the ground and his slave master at that time or who he was working for hit him across the head. Or another time when he had hid and his master found him and kick him and told him to get up.


*The whole story to me is kind on base realism because things that was said and done are events that really happen back then around slavery time. Example of that is like when his master told the slave to go back and do what the Mr. covey was saying or he was gonna get a hold of him and that means whoop him. Another realism part was when an slave named Sandy went to go see his wife when he didnt have to work. Events like that really happen


10. Provide a modern example of realism (Boyz in tha Hood, and Menace II Society, for that matter are off-limits). This can be music, a movie, a television show, a book, or whatever you may choose. You need to explain how it is realism, and provide an example from your choice (a lyric, description of a scene, quote, etc.)



* The movie Shottas because it tells a story about two kids growing up together in Kingston, Jamaica. They take on the gangsta life style known over there as shotta which really means gangsta. They way it is realism because it tells how kids grow up over there and what they go threw.



11. The fun part - - -a. Decide what you like best, Dark Romanticism or Realism.b. Create a short piece ( a poem or very short story) of whichever you choose.c. Explain (with at least a paragraph or two with direct evidence from your own example) how it is a good representation of Dark Romanticism or Realism. Keep in mind that you are proving how your story fits whichever idea you choose, so discussing the idea itself is necessary.



A.* I like realism better because it tells how things really is or tries its best to.



B.* Growing up in Athens...



Once upon a time there was a boy named Chuck he grew up in athens georgia. His family was poor so he stayed in section 1 most of his life. Growing up Chuck was around drugs,money and alchol so being intruduced to that at an young age he drop out of school in the 8 grade and started selling drugs to have money in his pocket because he didnt like being broke. That was going straight for about two years. What had pose to been his 10 grade year in school and his 16 b-day was just a week away Chuck was nowhere to be found. He was found a month later in the woods sombody had rob and kill him for the drugs he was selling.

c. Explain (with at least a paragraph or two with direct evidence from your own example) how it is a good representation of Dark Romanticism or Realism. Keep in mind that you are proving how your story fits whichever idea you choose, so discussing the idea itself is necessary.

*I think my story is a good representation of realism. the reason i think that is because most of boys or men growing up in section 1 house's tend to think thats all they we every see in life or might not ever be nobody because of where they come from so basically i just wrote a story about sombody growing up in section 1 and how they may look at life.

12. Explain (with DIRECT EVIDENCE FROM YOUR OWN WORK) how you have met (or exceeded) at least two of the standards listed below.

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.

* i think i used this by just taking things that stood out in a story or poem and just giving examples of what it is saying.

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 i used this one by really just understanding what pople thought in their time periods and really take their understanding and look at it in a different way.

Unit Four -- Modernism

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

*1. Create a new post on your blog called "Unit Four", and then explain which of the above standards you have had the most difficulty mastering. Make specific references to the work you have done in this class in your response.

*It wouldn't say it was the most difficulty for me to master but it was one i had problems with. and the reason why is because in other time periods they had a different vocabulary so when you are doing a lit project on their time period you have to make sure you use the words correctly because our words might mean somthing different in their time.

Please post the following to your blog:
2. Choose one of the Modernism themes named above that you are most interested in studying: Disillusionment, the Harlem Renaissnace, The Jazz Age, or Phychoanalysis. Write a paragraph that describes why you made this choice and how you expect to see the topic you chose represented in the literature you are about to read.

I choosed to read about The Harlem Renaissance. The reason i read about it was because i think it was a great movement in the black community. It kind of give you things about how african americans felt in that time period and what they thought. And the reason i expect to see more about this in a story about it because i had a great effect on people. It might even changed how blacks and whites look at life.



3. Read the story that coresponds to the theme you chose. Chose a topic according to your interests, not the length of the story. Choosing a story because of its length is not the wisest way to approach this assignment.


When you are through reading, you should type a two-paragraph response to the story you read,

*The Harlem Renaissance:The Development of a New African-American Consciousness

The story i read was about the Harlem Renaissance. A couple of things i toke from the story was about African Americans who move up to the north from the south after the war. At a time period white americans rule the music world and the shows. They had a few black people in their shows. And a couple of the shows where basically like talking about how Africans amercians live or how they thought they did.

Not to many blacks liked the show or plays even when they had real African americans in them. the reason i think they didnt like it was because it was either making blacks look like fools or telling a story about how they really live. Finally during the Harlem movement Africans Americans started to take stuff in their hands and really give to other people of how live for them really was. Some shows showed good things about their life and some music relates to the bad things they went threw.

provide another two paragraphs in which you analyze the theme you chose and how it is represented in the story. Take time to explain how the author features the theme you chose, and go deeper and explain what you believe he or she is saying about America. This will require you to provide examples straight from the texts as well as some synthesis on your part (drawing your own conclusions).

* If i had to analyze what Harlem Renaissance was i would say it was one of the greatest movements in the world. The reason i think this is because it brought people closer together and it made you think about other people lifes if you didn't. It give the world a couple of things to look at from african americans like art,music, and plays. So there for every body have a different way to look at life. it was represented in the story because it was talking about how the harlem renaissance started and who help started it.

* I think Angela Wiley features what i choosed is because she wrote about the Harlem Renaissance and how it started and people that help make it a movement. A couple of examples of that are->In 1917, an intellectual movement, known as the Harlem Renaissance, began in Harlem and lasted until 1935. Or The Harlem Renaissance was a somewhat forced phenomenon, a cultural nationalism of the parlor, institutionally encouraged and directed by leaders of the national civil rights establishment for the paramount purpose of improving race relations in a time of extreme national backlash, caused in a large part by ecomonic gains won by Afro-Americans during the Great War. I believe she is saying that the Harlem Renaissance effect america from the art, music, and plays because many people back then probably didnt know that African americans could make such an impact on people threw things they created.

4. Read the following poems. When you study poetry, it is a good habit to read each selection MORE THAN ONCE.

Richard Corey- i think this has to do with modernism. The reason i think that is because everybody use to look at him walking down the street and really wanted to be him or thougth he had a really good life because of the money and class he had. An example of that is->
And he was rich—yes, richer than a king,And admirably schooled in every grace. But when he killed his self they might have realize his life wasn't that great.

Mending Wall- I think it uses modernism by just looking at another person point of view or theirselves. And really thinking about what the person means when he say “Good fences make good neighbours.” I think it is saying just keep a little distance between people and you will have a good relationship.

A Dream Deferred- This poem has modernism in it because it has no logical basis i think. And what i mean by that is its not talking about nothing but what happens to dreams that deffered. An example of that is->What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? And a part of modernism is disallusionment and thats basically saying get away from stuff that isn't real.

The Negro Speaks of Rivers - This poem to me is saying that over a period of time that this person grew more into his spirt side I say that because in the poem he puts My soul has grown deep like the rivers. So basically to me its saying that your spirt side is an important and deep side to all of us.

Incident- From what i got from the poem it was talking about a boy who was 8 and went to Baltimore with high hopes or nothing bad on his mind. But when he got there he was kind of shocked at what happen. Example->Now I was eight and very small, His tongue, and called me, "Nigger. And the only thing tht he can remember in Baltimore was getting called a nigger.

5. Review your response to number 1 in this unit. Then explain how you have addressed the Georgia Performance Standard you said was a challenge for you. You should support this claim with evidence from your own work.