*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.
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