Unit Four

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.
This standard is a challenge for me.

Harlem Renaissance:
I choose Harlem Renaissance because it seemed as though it would have been a more interesting time in life, the african americans were trying to get their voices out and wanted to be recognized as themselves and not just a nothing black person.

This story relates to the Harlem Renaissance because at the time that the story was wrote, the african americans were trying to get the point over that they were good writers and jazz players. The author was a woman and at the time it was that they were trying to get their point over that they were talented and they wanted to be treated equal and for being a woman it made her even more popular.

The author was saying that America then was unequal and that white people thought that the blacks had a better life and they didn't have to worry about things like they did. But really they had things going on in their lives but they didn't show it they basically keep things to themselves and to me it seems as though it made them stronger.

"Joe got his candy and left the store. The clerk turned to the next customer. 'Wisht I could be like these darkies. Laughin' all the time. Nothin' worries 'em.'"

In the quote the clerk was a white man, who thought that Joe had a good life because he was always smiling. Joe had a rough time, his wife cheated on him with a con-artist, and just had a baby which he thought wasn't his, but that didn't get Joe down. He stayed with his wife and worked things out, and didn't let that bother him. He went back to his regular life, and stayed with his family as though nothing had even happened.

Richard Corey
Richard Corey is a disillusion of the american dream. People think that his life is so perfect because he has money, nice clothes, and nice to others, but on the inside he was going though something, that was undescribed, and his life took a down fall and he committed suicide.

A dream deferred
This poem about a dream that fades away, Langston Hughes is wondering what happenes to a dead dream that people let go of. It is connecting to the harlem renaissance because it is talking about how dreams have died and the people that died before the harlem renaissance and thought what happened to their dreams and realized that their dreams of being treating equal didnt died they were pushed aside.

The Negro speaks of rivers
Langston Hughes is saying that the african american souls had grown bigger and fuller since the harlem renaissance had started. He is noting that some of the popular african american places such as Egypt, Africa, New Orleans, and Mississippi, were some of the places that the african american soul has grown from and strengthen from. This relates to the Renaissance because it also made blacks thrive for more and try to acheive more in life and for their up coming family.

Incident
Is an example of psychoanalysis because the person in the story is looking down on themself because they are made fun of because of being black. That one thing that happened in baltimore stuck in their head for the rest of their life through all the things that they have seen and done in Baltimore.


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 have learned how to better understand this standard in my first unit project by comparing the music influences such as Tina Turner and Keyshia Cole.

Unit Three

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.
It seems that maybe the student should know about comprehending things in various literary works, they should also know how to correctly write a essay, narratives, poem, or technical documents.

I would say I fall under the category of a Dark Romantic. I don't think that all people have a pure soul, the people that has committed murder and use drugs and alcohol can not say that God was telling them to do it.

THE BLACK CAT
"The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame." The transcendentalists thought that when people had a voice in their head that is was God talking to them and telling them what to do, but there is no way that God was talking to him when he pulled the cat's eye ball out of its socket.

THE RAVEN

The Raven is is based on a man who is basically scared. He is upset that his wife has died, so he stays up reading and writing, but he hears a noise and thinks somebody is at his door, when he approches the door and opens it no one is there. He sits back down and hears another noise at the window and when he opens the window it is a Raven and as the window opens the raven flys in.
The difference between the Transcendentalist and this poem is that The Raven is not talking about God, it is talking about death and the Demons inside of someone, the Transcendentalist thought that everyone was pure and had a part of God in them and this poem shows that everyone is not pure.


The raven symbolizes mornin of someone and the demon inside of someone.

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.

"Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting--
"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul has spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!--quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

This part of the story stuck out to me because its like the man in the story is telling the raven to leave him alone and quit making fun of him while he is mornin the lost of his wife. Also he is saying he doesn't want anyone to try and heal his lonliness and he would rather be lonly and hurting instead of being happy.


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.

The difference between the Transcendentalist and this poem is that The Raven is not talking about God, it is talking about death and the Demons inside of someone, the Transcendentalist thought that everyone was pure and had a part of God in them and this poem shows that everyone is not pure.


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 would say I fall under the category of a Dark Romantic. I don't think that all people have a pure soul, the people that has committed murder and use drugs and alcohol can not say that God was telling them to do it. Instead of transcendentalists that thought that God was telling them what to do and thought that people were pure.



A story of an hour
"She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long." Its like saying that she was hoping that her life would end soon but now she is hoping that she can continue on with her life.
The problem with depression is what it seems to be that she wants to solve.



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 my way of doing this would be my writing assignments. The essay I did on Coach would be a example of this.

Unit Two

In the story Rip Van Winkle, nature was a sign of romanticism, Rip used the nature as a get away from his nagging wife, but for his couple of hours get away it turned into a twenty year vacation, because Rip dosed off and took a nap and didnt wake til twenty years later. The time Rip woke, his wife was dead, children were grown and his dog was dead. The only thing actually stayed the same was nature. "There stood the Kaatskill Mountains-there ran the silver Hudson at a distance-there was every hill and date precisely as it had always been."

The author of Rip Van Winkle has to have a great imagination to come up with this story. In romanticism, imagination is whats important rather then reason and logic, logic is something that has a fact about it not something that you can just make up. In addition to the authors imagination the people of the town have a imagination themselves, they believe everything that comes out of Rip's mouth.

The poem is talking about all three themes of Romanticism because it talks about nature and its beauty, when it states "To Nature's teachings, while from all around--
Earth and her waters, and the depths of air." The focus of common people was brought into this in this statement, "As the long train of ages glides away, the sons of men,
The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes In the full strength of years, matron and maid, The speechless babe, and the gray-headed man--"


I have given examples of identifying evidence in the last paragraph that I have wrote. The sentence that is talking about the people, supports that it is talking about common people.


Nature: It actually seems that its kind of hard to picture yourself walking through the woods and admiring nature. In these times now, people dont actually walk through the woods and admire nature, unless they actually care about the beauty of nature and the things around it. This is what Emerson is trying to encourge people to do, he wants people to see the beauty in the world. He is trying to get people to realize that just walking outside and seeing the sun is not just the sun, he wants you to see the sun for a symbol of a new day, it provides warmth and light to our day.

Self-reliance: In this reading, it seems like Emerson is trying to give advice on what ypu should do to make yourself a better person. He is also telling you that you should depend on yourself and no one else. "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist". This is saying that you should do what you think is right for you to do even though someone else thinks something is right you, you should stand up for what you think is right for yourself and please yourself.


Transcendentalists thought that God was speaking through someone through their work and what they said, and felt that God was giving them advice on their lives, while Emerson was actually giving advice through his own words and he spoke on what he thought someone should do for themselves and thought that you should try to please yourself instead of pleasing someone else.


People probably thought that he shouldn't be in the woods all alone by himself, but he felt that he had a purpose to live in the woods by himself and thats what he wanted so he did what he felt was right for him. The man in the video he was actually living out the beauty of nature himself, he saw it for himself instead of just reading about it. Self-reliance for him was making his own home and living out in his cabin in the woods, Im pretty sure people were trying to get him to move back to the city where there were other people but he didnt want to do what people thought was right for him he wanted to do what he thought was right for himself.