Chapter 1: Abstract: In the 1st chapter Henry decides to enlist in the army. Hes fighting for the Union army in the American Civil War.When he tells his mother this she tells him all the negatives about going to war and joining the military. She tells him to stay away from the negative people who do bad things like smoke and drink and swear. She tells him to not do anything that he would be ashamed to tell his mother. In the end he was talking about running away from the battle but he realized that all of his men were their fighting for his country and he wanted to do the same.
Response: I think Henry is a brave young man. He enlisted at a very young age, I think he should of taken into consideration what his mom was telling him before he went to Washington because now that he is their he doesn't want to be.
Question: What happened to the father?
Chapter 2: Abstract: Henry is really not wanting to be in War anymore. He keeps questioning his courage. He wants someone else in the army to feel how he feels about this. He wants to run away with one of the army men. One of the men he asked was Wilson. He asked wilson if he ever thought about running away from battle. And Wilson said that he would do his part in the battle. Henry is sad now because no one feels how he does about war and he always is lonely.
Response: I believe that Henry shouldn't of rushed into this decision so fast because he is really regreting it now and he is trying to talk other brave soilders to run away with him. He shouldn't of came if he was gonna whine like he is in chapter 2 about war.
Question: Why did Henry want to join the army so bad?
Chapter 3: Abstract: The next morning Jim wakes Henry and tells him that they heard gunfire in the distance. So all the soilders get together and start running towards the gunfire. Henry is in the middle of all the soilders while they are running. He thinks to himself even if he could run away right now he would just get trampled by soliders. He worries all the time about whats going to happen to him and his army. Wilson believes that he is going to die in this battle so he gives Henry a yellow envelope to send back to his family if he was to die. Henry really lacks courage he wishes that he could have more and be one of he brave army soldiers.
Response: I think that Henry is surrounded by brave men and he should look up to one of them on how to be a great soilder.
Question: Why would Wilson give Henry the Envelope?
Chapter 4: Abstract: In the beginning of chapter 4 all of the Inexperienced soilders are surrounding the veterans. While they were doing this a army group started to come after them so Henry were all loading there guns to fight them off. While every inexperianced soilder was thinking about how brave and couragous they were going to be during this battle all Henry could think about was running away. He has no courage.
Response: I think that everyone around Henry is a good leader. He needs to be more couragous and fight for what he went into war for.
Question: Is Henry ever going to come out of this shell he is of being afraid?
Chapter 5: Abstract: Henry finally started fighting like a soilder. He finally overcame his fear of lonliness and was fighting for his country. He has gained a lot of courage back from when he first went to the army.
Response: This chapter shows how Henry finally started fighting for his country and he gained a lot of courage in this chapter.
Question: What made him fight with courage?
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Fredrick Douglas
This story was a narrative about Fredrick Douglas he told his story about slavery and how he saw it through his eyes.
A murder a mystery and a marriage
- John Gray- farmer, 55 years old, married to Sarah/Sally
- Deer Lick
- Daughter Mary wants to marry Hugh Gregory
- Reverend John Hurley
- Tom Gray- son of John and Sarah and Sally
- Dave Gray-John's brother-Has lots of money.
- Deer Lick
- Daughter Mary wants to marry Hugh Gregory
- Reverend John Hurley
- Tom Gray- son of John and Sarah and Sally
- Dave Gray-John's brother-Has lots of money.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Declaration of indepenence Questions
1. Why do they repeat it? They are gaining independence from The king of England and they want them to know how important their freedom is.
2. Why do they make it personal?
Because they dont like the king and they use his name a lot to let him know it. It shows that what they were doing was wrong.
3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change?
They want it to change and that everyones gonna need it later.
4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece?
It shows that our country wants everything to be equal. And how important it is and extreme the situation is.
parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance. parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance.
5.What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why?
The most convincing thing i read is that people are made all equal no matter what. We all have are own freedom, beliefs, and rights.
2. Why do they make it personal?
Because they dont like the king and they use his name a lot to let him know it. It shows that what they were doing was wrong.
3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change?
They want it to change and that everyones gonna need it later.
4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece?
It shows that our country wants everything to be equal. And how important it is and extreme the situation is.
parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance. parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance.
5.What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why?
The most convincing thing i read is that people are made all equal no matter what. We all have are own freedom, beliefs, and rights.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Mark twain research
Mark twains means the mark of two fathoms. Its used when sounding river shallows.
His real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens. His books are controversial because the way he writes and says stuff in his books. He uses racial slurs and comments. His real name is samuel langhorne clemens but his pen name is mark twain. He loves cats. He was a author when he was young to. He worked as a miner also. Irony is the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. Its like having it rain on your wedding day. Verne was an author and he became a very famous author too. He knew twain because they wrote a book together and they were in a play together.
His real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens. His books are controversial because the way he writes and says stuff in his books. He uses racial slurs and comments. His real name is samuel langhorne clemens but his pen name is mark twain. He loves cats. He was a author when he was young to. He worked as a miner also. Irony is the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. Its like having it rain on your wedding day. Verne was an author and he became a very famous author too. He knew twain because they wrote a book together and they were in a play together.
Gothic Literature, Romantism, and transendent notes
Gothic Literature is characterized by grotesque characters, bizarre situations and violent events. It originated in Europe & the authors are Edgar Allan Poe and Nathianel Hawthorne in the 19th century. In todays century the saw movies really show gothic literature. Not in books but in movies.
Romantism- limitization of reason, and the indvidual spirit,, and imagination is the basis elements of human nature. The splendors of nature, purtains ruled by the fear of god. Their works with atmosphere, setiment and optimism.
Transsednent- forms of truth exist beyond reason and experiance every individual is capable of discovering this higher truth on hi so or her own through intnotiton.
Gothic Architeture- cavernous gothic cathedrals, irregulary placed tails strined glass, were intended to inspire awe and fear in religous worshipers.
imaginative destorting of reality.
Threshold of the unknown fantastic, the demonic, and the insane reside.
When religious write they get hope. When gothic write they see evil.
Poe- Dark and evil castles give the setting a scary dark place.
Hawthonre- fear, greed, Betrayal
As articulate..Gridiron as clearly seperated as the bars on a grill.
puddingstone- a rock consisting of pebbles and gravel cmented together termegant: scolding women.
Clapper- clawing scratching or clawing with the fingernails.
Eyed... askance; looked dissaproving at the house filled with arguing.
Danse Macabre- means dance of death.
Allegory- a work with 2 layers of meanings. in an allegrical tale, most of the persons, objects and events stand for abstract ideas or qualities.
The clock represents how much time is left in your life and death will get you no matter what the circumstances are the 7 rooms represent death line because the 7th room is death room.
Raven- bird of prophecy, assoiated with mystery, evil owens, and death.
End rhyme- similar sounds at the end of a line.
internal rhyme- Rhymes within a line
Rhyme scheme: the basic patteron of the end rhymes.
Romantism- limitization of reason, and the indvidual spirit,, and imagination is the basis elements of human nature. The splendors of nature, purtains ruled by the fear of god. Their works with atmosphere, setiment and optimism.
Transsednent- forms of truth exist beyond reason and experiance every individual is capable of discovering this higher truth on hi so or her own through intnotiton.
Gothic Architeture- cavernous gothic cathedrals, irregulary placed tails strined glass, were intended to inspire awe and fear in religous worshipers.
imaginative destorting of reality.
Threshold of the unknown fantastic, the demonic, and the insane reside.
When religious write they get hope. When gothic write they see evil.
Poe- Dark and evil castles give the setting a scary dark place.
Hawthonre- fear, greed, Betrayal
As articulate..Gridiron as clearly seperated as the bars on a grill.
puddingstone- a rock consisting of pebbles and gravel cmented together termegant: scolding women.
Clapper- clawing scratching or clawing with the fingernails.
Eyed... askance; looked dissaproving at the house filled with arguing.
Danse Macabre- means dance of death.
Allegory- a work with 2 layers of meanings. in an allegrical tale, most of the persons, objects and events stand for abstract ideas or qualities.
The clock represents how much time is left in your life and death will get you no matter what the circumstances are the 7 rooms represent death line because the 7th room is death room.
Raven- bird of prophecy, assoiated with mystery, evil owens, and death.
End rhyme- similar sounds at the end of a line.
internal rhyme- Rhymes within a line
Rhyme scheme: the basic patteron of the end rhymes.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Gothic Literature
Gothic Literature- Gothic literature is intimately associated with the Gothic Revival architecture of the same era. In a way similar to the gothic revivalists' rejection of the clarity and rationalism of the neoclassical style of the Enlightened Establishment, the literary Gothic embodies an appreciation of the joys of extreme emotion, the thrills of fearfulness and awe inherent in the sublime, and a quest for atmosphere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction
Romanticism-Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as "romantic," although love may occasionally be the subject of Romantic art. Rather, it is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html
Transcendentalism-Transcendentalism is an American literary, political, and philosophical movement of the early nineteenth century, centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson. Other important transcendentalists were Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Amos Bronson Alcott, Frederic Henry Hedge, and Theodore Parker. Stimulated by English and German Romanticism, the Biblical criticism of Herder and Schleiermacher, and the skepticism of Hume, the transcendentalists operated with the sense that a new era was at hand.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendentalism/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction
Romanticism-Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as "romantic," although love may occasionally be the subject of Romantic art. Rather, it is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html
Transcendentalism-Transcendentalism is an American literary, political, and philosophical movement of the early nineteenth century, centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson. Other important transcendentalists were Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Amos Bronson Alcott, Frederic Henry Hedge, and Theodore Parker. Stimulated by English and German Romanticism, the Biblical criticism of Herder and Schleiermacher, and the skepticism of Hume, the transcendentalists operated with the sense that a new era was at hand.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendentalism/
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Acts 1,2,3, and 4.
The 5 elements of plot in drama--Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resoulution.
A foil is a minor character whose traits contgrast sharply wiht those of the main character.
Monologue- a long speech spoken by a single character to himself or herself or to the audience.
Silioquy- a monolague in which a character speaks his or her private thoughts a loud and appears to be unaware of the Audience.
aside- a short speech or comment that is delivered by a character to the audiance but that is beyond the hearing of other charcter who are presant.
Spectral Evidance- the testimony of a churches member who claimed to have seen a persons spirit performing witchcraft.
Act 1-- The play is in Salem, Massactuchess 1962. Act one starts off with Parris running threw the woods and he discoveres that their is girl dances in the woods. He sees Abigal and all of her friends dancing and realized that they are doing witchcraft. The reason the girls are dancing is because Mrs. Putnam has 8 kids and 7 of them have died. She thinks that they are dying because of witchcraft.He goes back into the town and tells all the people what he saw and then Betty cannot wake. So he thinks that she is witched. Since they think she is a victim of witchcraft they have reverand Hale come to salem because he is a Witchcraft Expert. Mr parris niece abigal willaims denied all of this witchcraft talk. She was a maid at the John and Elizabeth Procters house but Elizbeth fired her. After that she didn't go to church much. Then at the end of the chapter all of the girls started shouting out names of people they were accusing for withcraft.
Act 2-- At the beginning of Chapter 2 thier were 14 people jailed and if they don't confess they will be hung. Elizebeth Proctor was accused by Abigal willaims because she loves and wants to be married to John. The thing is that Elizabeth does not lie. She loses all faith in her husband after he tells her that he was in a room with Abigal by themselves. In the court Mary Warren sewed together a doll and gave it to Elizebeth as a gift. Their was a pin in the adomen and Abigal ended up having a pin in her adedomen. Reverend relized this doll and was amazed. Then reverend hale relizes that the proctors don't go to church that often and when he asked John to recite the ten commandents he forgot the one prohibiting Adultry. This really makes Elizebeth uneasy. At the end of the act Elizebeth was taken away and John lost his temper and ripped the warrent of the people that came into his house and took his wife.
3. In act 3 Mary and John entered the room and Proctor told mary to tell the court what she thought. She told the court that all of the girls were faking the witchcraft. While the court was in session the girls thought that mary put a cold wind on them and that she was using Witchcraft. Proctor realized that she just wanted Elizbeth to hang and die so that she could take her place in the Proctor house. That is why Abigal accused Elizbeth in the first place.
Act 4-- Now all of the people in witchcraft were confessing of witchcraft when they didn't do anything to do with withcraft they just wanted to save each others lives. John Proctor was standing up for what he believed in though because he doesn't think that all these people are living for the wrong reasons and he will not do that. He died by getting hung but the best people are the ones that got hung becaue they are not confessing to what they did and they are going down for what the believe in and not for what other people think they are.
A foil is a minor character whose traits contgrast sharply wiht those of the main character.
Monologue- a long speech spoken by a single character to himself or herself or to the audience.
Silioquy- a monolague in which a character speaks his or her private thoughts a loud and appears to be unaware of the Audience.
aside- a short speech or comment that is delivered by a character to the audiance but that is beyond the hearing of other charcter who are presant.
Spectral Evidance- the testimony of a churches member who claimed to have seen a persons spirit performing witchcraft.
Act 1-- The play is in Salem, Massactuchess 1962. Act one starts off with Parris running threw the woods and he discoveres that their is girl dances in the woods. He sees Abigal and all of her friends dancing and realized that they are doing witchcraft. The reason the girls are dancing is because Mrs. Putnam has 8 kids and 7 of them have died. She thinks that they are dying because of witchcraft.He goes back into the town and tells all the people what he saw and then Betty cannot wake. So he thinks that she is witched. Since they think she is a victim of witchcraft they have reverand Hale come to salem because he is a Witchcraft Expert. Mr parris niece abigal willaims denied all of this witchcraft talk. She was a maid at the John and Elizabeth Procters house but Elizbeth fired her. After that she didn't go to church much. Then at the end of the chapter all of the girls started shouting out names of people they were accusing for withcraft.
Act 2-- At the beginning of Chapter 2 thier were 14 people jailed and if they don't confess they will be hung. Elizebeth Proctor was accused by Abigal willaims because she loves and wants to be married to John. The thing is that Elizabeth does not lie. She loses all faith in her husband after he tells her that he was in a room with Abigal by themselves. In the court Mary Warren sewed together a doll and gave it to Elizebeth as a gift. Their was a pin in the adomen and Abigal ended up having a pin in her adedomen. Reverend relized this doll and was amazed. Then reverend hale relizes that the proctors don't go to church that often and when he asked John to recite the ten commandents he forgot the one prohibiting Adultry. This really makes Elizebeth uneasy. At the end of the act Elizebeth was taken away and John lost his temper and ripped the warrent of the people that came into his house and took his wife.
3. In act 3 Mary and John entered the room and Proctor told mary to tell the court what she thought. She told the court that all of the girls were faking the witchcraft. While the court was in session the girls thought that mary put a cold wind on them and that she was using Witchcraft. Proctor realized that she just wanted Elizbeth to hang and die so that she could take her place in the Proctor house. That is why Abigal accused Elizbeth in the first place.
Act 4-- Now all of the people in witchcraft were confessing of witchcraft when they didn't do anything to do with withcraft they just wanted to save each others lives. John Proctor was standing up for what he believed in though because he doesn't think that all these people are living for the wrong reasons and he will not do that. He died by getting hung but the best people are the ones that got hung becaue they are not confessing to what they did and they are going down for what the believe in and not for what other people think they are.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Early Puritans
Puritans are people that left their own city of England and came to America to have their own religion and their own freedom. They were part of the prodestant chruch.
Salem witch trials
The salem witch trails were 19 men and women all being accused of doing witchcraft. They were all shipped to Gallows Hills to go get hung. Then another guy refused to go on trial and he got stoned to death. It happened in 1962.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Geographical Details- Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass. Pg 56
They had controlled teh open range from the Smokey Hill River to the red. Pg 57.
Historical Details- Her name was Aho, she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America. Pg. 57
They could find no buffalo; they had to hang old hide from the sacared tree. Pg. 58
Personal Details- When they went to devils tower- what grandma said.pg 59
The walls have closed in upon my grandmothers house.pg 59
They had controlled teh open range from the Smokey Hill River to the red. Pg 57.
Historical Details- Her name was Aho, she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America. Pg. 57
They could find no buffalo; they had to hang old hide from the sacared tree. Pg. 58
Personal Details- When they went to devils tower- what grandma said.pg 59
The walls have closed in upon my grandmothers house.pg 59
Monday, August 24, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
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