Information Technology High School
Ms. Hyde
English E6
February 13, 2009
Michelle Lien
Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
Through this experience of mine I have changed my ways of thinking, I now believe in myself and what I am fully capable of. In me I found inner strength, determination, persistence, and the will to never give up. I was amazed at myself and what I could accomplish, if I just put my whole self into it. Well I can proudly say what I have done is my biggest accomplishment in my life—so far. I believe there is more to come out of this fulfilling, inspirational, and self discovery experience of mine. This eye opening experience for me, started when my Physics teacher showed us examples of an old classes work for our upcoming project. We all turned ecstatic; right then I knew this was going to be one of those—“psh I can do that,” but then it turns out harder than we thought—experiences. After the demonstration, the classed turned into a, 75% sale at a mall on a Saturday, kind of crazy. Okay, very crazy—bustling, hustling, busy bee’s, we all moved around to arrange into groups of five or less. Naturally everyone went with familiar people, and then before I knew it there was only me and my close friend left. The chaos was so fast we both had no other group to join and were left to fend for ourselves. Both of us chose the easiest task to accomplish out of the five, to build a mobile robotic launcher. Which can move in all directions and the launcher can shoot a ping pong ball a certain amount of meters, which also has adjustable angles—all this done with a programmed remote control. The rest of the week that was all that people talked about in conversations.
As fast as they came, two weeks passed since the teacher assigned the project. Everyone had made some sort of progress and was putting their full commitment into it. While my partner and I started nothing, not even gathering materials yet. Then I came to realize that I was hiding behind my partner’s excuses making them my own. I was just hiding behind her absence as an excuse of mine, saying I couldn’t work or start if she wasn’t there. And that was untrue and I shouldn’t have thought like that, so I took charge of the project—going solo. My sudden realization of me slacking has influenced my will and I knew I didn’t have much time left too. But I forgot that I couldn’t swim, and I was already on the diving board about to jump into the pool. Having no idea or anything for that matter, I showed up afterschool lost. I first thought I would gather materials needed for my robot, in the middle of collecting my light bulb went off. How do I know what I need when I don’t even know what I’ll be building? Defeated, I sat down and thought of what steps I need to take before I do anything else that would waste my time. Then the idea dawned me, a blueprint! Draw what I would build and come up with design ideas but I didn’t even know how the robot operates.
I drove myself crazy thinking what is the very first step in all of this chaos. My teacher offered to help me, he advised me to go home and do some research along with giving me a guide book to read. I read the first chapter which told me how to build a basic base, which I became inspired to start my own. In all the excitement my mind wanted more, but only longed to find the missing pieces of the first part. I started on a blueprint and the following day after school, my plan launched into action. But my teacher asked me for the number of parts I needed and it was as if he spoke to me in a different language. I didn’t know what he had asked me; at that point I knew I should’ve read the whole guide before jumping steps. Again I tried diving into a pool without knowing every step of how, so I went home defeated once again but determined to get this right and finish my robot. Repeatedly this kept happening, and by the end of the week, little to no progress has been made. I began to get sick of me failing over and over again.
Even though I had to always take two steps back to take one step forward. In the end, my will and persistence came through to let me finish the project. I might add pretty successfully—I had accomplished what was needed to be done with excellence. Although my process and progress was not much of a winner, in the end I had learned a lesson that no teacher can teach. Self progress is my way of naming it, but I have also achieved a self goal during that time too. Now when an obstacle comes in my way, I know that if I fail, it’s not because I didn’t try my hardest.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Ambush
Objective: Preparing for the ELA Regents Session One Part A. Today you will listen to an account by Tim O'Brien and take notes using the 5Ws+H.
Aim: What are the effects of war on the protagonist in Tim O'Brien's "Ambush"?
Questions:
Who are the characters?
Tim O'Brien, Kathleen, Kiowa, and a twenty year old man.
When did this take place?
1959 to April 30, 1975 in My-Khe, Vietnam.
What is the conflict?
The conflict is man vs. self, the person does not want to admit and still cant admit that he killed someone at war by instinct. Without even knowing him or anything and killed an innocent man with his bare hands.
What literary elements did you identify?
Setting, flashbacks, imagery and first person point of view.
Who is the narrator?
Tim O'Brien
What are the effects that war has upon the individual?
Denial of killing an innocent man, guilt of killing a person, flashbacks and visions of that specific moment.
How is this an anti-war story?
This is an anti-war story because it begins with him older and not being able to tell--even then, to his daughter that he had killed someone during war. At the end of the story it tells about how he suffers throughout his life with that memory--flahsbacks, visions, all never leaving him in peace.
Aim: What are the effects of war on the protagonist in Tim O'Brien's "Ambush"?
Questions:
Who are the characters?
Tim O'Brien, Kathleen, Kiowa, and a twenty year old man.
When did this take place?
1959 to April 30, 1975 in My-Khe, Vietnam.
What is the conflict?
The conflict is man vs. self, the person does not want to admit and still cant admit that he killed someone at war by instinct. Without even knowing him or anything and killed an innocent man with his bare hands.
What literary elements did you identify?
Setting, flashbacks, imagery and first person point of view.
Who is the narrator?
Tim O'Brien
What are the effects that war has upon the individual?
Denial of killing an innocent man, guilt of killing a person, flashbacks and visions of that specific moment.
How is this an anti-war story?
This is an anti-war story because it begins with him older and not being able to tell--even then, to his daughter that he had killed someone during war. At the end of the story it tells about how he suffers throughout his life with that memory--flahsbacks, visions, all never leaving him in peace.
10/23/08
Objectives: E3.Students will articulate personal opinions to clarify stated positions, persuade or influence groups.
E 3. Students will present reasons, examples, and details from text to defend opinions and judgments.
E4. Students will Speak
informally with peers and
in group settings
E4. Respect the age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of peers
Background for understanding: Students would have read Chapters 11 to 15.
Aim: How can we present reasons, examples, and details from the text to defend opinions and judgements?
Do Now (ties in to the Critical Lens of ELA Regents): Read the following quote and state if you agree or disagree with the quote and why “To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”
—Bernadette Devlin
The Price of My Soul, 1969
Share out!
Cooperative Learning: Form groups of 3-4 and each group will be responsible for responding to one selected chapter in 15 minutes and present to class on chart paper. Groups must also cite sources and “direct quotes”. The audience will take notes on each presentation.
Comprehension Check:
Linda’s first child was a, and his name was_. He was named after < style="font-weight: bold;">(62)
Interpret:
What is Dr. Flint suggesting to Linda when he said “he is a physician [who] could save [her] from exposure?” (59).
Explain what Linda is inferring when she said “I did not feel as proud as I had done. My strongest weapon with him was gone” (59)?
Linda made choices with deliberate calculation. How did her plan backfire? (61)
Vocabulary:
(59)= Avowal, Obstinate
(60)= Insolence
(63)= Solace
XII “Fear of Insurrection”
Comprehension Check:
What historical insurrection is Brent referring to in this chapter? What is an insurrection?
Analyze and Interpret:
In this chapter Linda points out that some whites can’t read. However, why were they looking for written correspondence among the slaves?
Vocabulary:
(65) Marauders
(66) Consternation
Jacobs also exposes the Christian hypocrisy < style="font-weight: bold;">when Reverend Mr. Pike calls for “Servants, [to] be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling in the singleness of your heart, as unto Christ. If you disobey your earthly master, you offend your heavenly Master” (70). Rather than denounce slavery, he enforces a dogma that obedience to white masters will lead to spiritual liberation. Slaves are therefore brainwashed believing there is a direct correlation between Christ and their white slave masters. Furthermore, they must be submissive to their masters. This hypocrisy is seen when a Northern clergyman visits a southern slave master’s home and is exposed to a dinner table “loaded with luxuries,” lush gardens, spiritual talks, and the “comfortable huts of the favored household slaves,” who [slaves] tell him that they do not want to be free for fear of their lives (76). He returns to the North publicizing that he has seen “slavery for himself; that it is a beautiful “patriarchal institution” and the terrible acts of slavery are exaggerations of abolitionists. However, Jacobs exposes slave masters’ totalitarianism and the ignorance and trickery of the clergyman stating:
does he know of the half-starved wretches toiling from dawn till dark on the plantations? of mothers shrieking for their children, torn from their arms by slave traders? of young girls dragged down into moral filth? of pools of blood around the whipping post? of hounds trained to tear human flesh? of men screwed into cotton gins to die? (76).
Furthermore, Jacobs was “much surprised [when Dr. Flint, her oppressive slave master had joined the Episcopal church, and thought] that religion has a purifying effect on the character of men; but the worst persecutions [she] endured from him were after he was a communicant” (70, 77). Flint announces that he joined the church because he is aging and his social position in the community requires it. It would also end the gossip of his transgressions on his plantation.
Another well-known Christian hypocrisy is the forbidding of slaves from reading the Bible. Jacobs tells of Uncle Fred whom she taught to read the Bible in concealment because it was “contrary to the law; and that slaves were whipped and imprisoned for teaching each other to read” (74). Here, her audience are compelled to reflect on their own ethos and scruples about God’s laws and man made laws that prohibits the inferior slave like Uncle Fred (who only wanted to better serve God) from reading the Bible. She boldly attacks both institution of Church and Slavery < style="font-weight: bold;">and illustrates how they unite in the oppression of slaves:
There are thousands, who, like good uncle Fred, are thirsting for the water of life; but the law forbids it, and the churches withhold it. They send the Bible to heathen abroad, and neglect the heathen at home. I am glad that missionaries go out to the dark corners of the earth; but I ask them not to overlook the dark corners at home. Talk to American slaveholders and you talk to savages in Africa. Tell them it is wrong to traffic men, [women and children]. Tell them it is sinful to sell their own children, and atrocious to violate their own daughters. Tell them that all men are brethren, and that man has no right to shut out the light of knowledge from his brother. Tell them they are answerable to God for sealing up the Fountain of Life from souls that are thirsting for it (75-76).
Jacobs illustrates race superiority and moral contradictions in church teachings. Furthermore, slave masters; intentionally use them to deny slaves their freedom.
XIV “Another Link to Life”
Comprehension Check:
How old is Linda in this chapter? (80)
What was Linda’s near death experience? (80)
Analyze and Interpret:
According to Linda Brent “the slave child shall follow the condition of the mother, not the father; thus taking care that licentiousness shall not interfere with avarice.” Explain (78)
What heinous act did Mr. Flint bestowed on Linda when he learned that she was pregnant with another child? (79)
Why was Linda highly concerned that her second born was a girl?
Literary analysis:
Identify device “he was like a restless spirit from the pit” (79).
Linda refers to her daughter’s gift of the gold chain as an emblem. What literary device is this? (81)
Vocabulary:
(78)= Forbearance, Reprobate, Descanting, Lacerated
(80)= Vituperations,
(81) Skeins, Genealogies, Emblem
Comprehension Check:
How much money was offered to Flint for the purchase of Linda? (81)
How is child abuse evident in this chapter? (82)
How is Flint trying to domesticate Linda in this chapter? (85)
One can say that the constant conflict between Linda and Flint is a power struggle. According to Linda, Dr. Flint loved money, but he loved power more.” Can we find/recall further support for this in the previous chapters?
Interpret:
According to Linda Brent “My master had power and law on his side; [and] I had a determined will—How is there might in each?
Vocabulary:
(81) Paramour
(84) Indignant, Sanctioning, Complusion
(85)= Facetious, Jeers, Wilfulness
Share out!
Homework: Reminder that you have your first test on Monday 27th. The Test will be from chapters 6-15 of Incidents. Read to chapter 25.
E 3. Students will present reasons, examples, and details from text to defend opinions and judgments.
E4. Students will Speak
informally with peers and
in group settings
E4. Respect the age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of peers
Background for understanding: Students would have read Chapters 11 to 15.
Aim: How can we present reasons, examples, and details from the text to defend opinions and judgements?
Do Now (ties in to the Critical Lens of ELA Regents): Read the following quote and state if you agree or disagree with the quote and why “To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”
—Bernadette Devlin
The Price of My Soul, 1969
Share out!
Cooperative Learning: Form groups of 3-4 and each group will be responsible for responding to one selected chapter in 15 minutes and present to class on chart paper. Groups must also cite sources and “direct quotes”. The audience will take notes on each presentation.
XI “The New Tie to Life”
Linda’s first child was a, and his name was_. He was named after < style="font-weight: bold;">(62)
Interpret:
What is Dr. Flint suggesting to Linda when he said “he is a physician [who] could save [her] from exposure?” (59).
Explain what Linda is inferring when she said “I did not feel as proud as I had done. My strongest weapon with him was gone” (59)?
Linda made choices with deliberate calculation. How did her plan backfire? (61)
Vocabulary:
(59)= Avowal, Obstinate
(60)= Insolence
(63)= Solace
XII “Fear of Insurrection”
Comprehension Check:
What historical insurrection is Brent referring to in this chapter? What is an insurrection?
Analyze and Interpret:
In this chapter Linda points out that some whites can’t read. However, why were they looking for written correspondence among the slaves?
Vocabulary:
(65) Marauders
(66) Consternation
XIII “The Church and Slavery” Teacher will read the following excerpt from Graduate Thesis. Students will analyze and discuss. How does Christianity masks some of slavery’s atrocities in Jacobs’ narrative?
does he know of the half-starved wretches toiling from dawn till dark on the plantations? of mothers shrieking for their children, torn from their arms by slave traders? of young girls dragged down into moral filth? of pools of blood around the whipping post? of hounds trained to tear human flesh? of men screwed into cotton gins to die? (76).
Furthermore, Jacobs was “much surprised [when Dr. Flint, her oppressive slave master had joined the Episcopal church, and thought] that religion has a purifying effect on the character of men
Another well-known Christian hypocrisy is the forbidding of slaves from reading the Bible
There are thousands, who, like good uncle Fred, are thirsting for the water of life; but the law forbids it, and the churches withhold it. They send the Bible to heathen abroad, and neglect the heathen at home. I am glad that missionaries go out to the dark corners of the earth; but I ask them not to overlook the dark corners at home. Talk to American slaveholders and you talk to savages in Africa. Tell them it is wrong to traffic men, [women and children]. Tell them it is sinful to sell their own children, and atrocious to violate their own daughters. Tell them that all men are brethren, and that man has no right to shut out the light of knowledge from his brother. Tell them they are answerable to God for sealing up the Fountain of Life from souls that are thirsting for it (75-76).
Jacobs illustrates race superiority and moral contradictions in church teachings. Furthermore, slave masters; intentionally use them to deny slaves their freedom.
XIV “Another Link to Life”
Comprehension Check:
How old is Linda in this chapter? (80)
What was Linda’s near death experience? (80)
Analyze and Interpret:
According to Linda Brent “the slave child shall follow the condition of the mother, not the father; thus taking care that licentiousness shall not interfere with avarice.” Explain (78)
What heinous act did Mr. Flint bestowed on Linda when he learned that she was pregnant with another child? (79)
Why was Linda highly concerned that her second born was a girl?
Literary analysis:
Identify device “he was like a restless spirit from the pit” (79).
Linda refers to her daughter’s gift of the gold chain as an emblem. What literary device is this? (81)
Vocabulary:
(78)= Forbearance, Reprobate, Descanting, Lacerated
(80)= Vituperations,
(81) Skeins, Genealogies, Emblem
XV “Continued Persecution”
How much money was offered to Flint for the purchase of Linda? (81)
How is child abuse evident in this chapter? (82)
How is Flint trying to domesticate Linda in this chapter? (85)
One can say that the constant conflict between Linda and Flint is a power struggle. According to Linda, Dr. Flint loved money, but he loved power more.” Can we find/recall further support for this in the previous chapters?
Interpret:
According to Linda Brent “My master had power and law on his side; [and] I had a determined will—How is there might in each?
Vocabulary:
(81) Paramour
(84) Indignant, Sanctioning, Complusion
(85)= Facetious, Jeers, Wilfulness
Share out!
Homework: Reminder that you have your first test on Monday 27th. The Test will be from chapters 6-15 of Incidents. Read to chapter 25.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Story Map: The Crucible
Information Technology High School
Ms. Hyde
English E5
October 23, 2008
Michelle Lien
The Crucible, by Arthur Miller
Characters & Characterization:
John Proctor: Protagonist
John Proctor is a typical hard working farmer who lives in the outskirts of town during these times. He owns acres of land, has two sons, and one wife—Elizabeth Proctor. But Proctor strays away from the “right” path, and goes down another which will lead him up to some consequences. His lust leads him to begin an affair with Abigail Williams, who used to be of service to the Proctor family. Once the trials begin to take place, Proctor realizes what he must do to stop the madness. But that is only if he stands up and confesses to his crime of adultery. A brave move like that would cost him his reputation in the town (his good name). Proctor tries to rat Abigail out as a fraud using Marry Warren to testify against Abigail’s doings without him having to reveal deep secrets. When that plan fails, he resorts to telling the truth, as much as he would not have liked to. Calling Abigail a “whore” and telling the court of his crime himself, he then realizes that all hope is gone. Not even the truth can break the powerful frenzy that he has let Abigail bring upon the town. All Proctors confession got him was being accused of witchcraft, and sentenced to be hanged.
Proctor is given a last chance to confess to his crimes, be set free and live. He gives in to the offer and confesses, but would not sign his name on the written confession. Proctor wants to save his name but on religious and personal terms rather than public reasons. He does not want to give a fake confession, to be true to the other prisoners; he doesn’t want to dishonor them for being brave enough to die to a true testimony. While he just lies and fakes his confession, just so he can live. Proctor decides not to give in, ruin his good name, and dishonor himself—walking to the gallows he gets hanged. With all his honor and goodness in his soul that will send him up to heaven for his good deeds.
Abigail Williams: Antagonist
A seventeen year old girl orphaned by Reverend Parris, had an affair and “fallen in love” with a married man, John Proctor. She does outrageous, almost obsessive deeds to obtain him and his love. Her tricky, devious, sinister, almost evil ways cause the whole town to turn upside down. Manipulating some younger girls in the town to do her bidding in court, she even threatens them with death if they do not listen. The town listens to the acts of these children, letting them have the keys to the kingdom. Once being shunned and looked down upon for being rumored of having an affair with John Proctor. Her time of revenge has come, she uses this act she and the girl plays in court to her advantage. Abigail testifies in court against innocent people who mocked her in the past—accusing them for being witches, using witchcraft and a devil-worshiper. She also uses her new power to dispose of Elizabeth Proctor, the wife of her lover, the only one in her way. Throughout the book all her motives are obviously driven by the jealousy and revenge of Elizabeth Proctor. Her sexual desire and lust for power is what drives her to the insane actions.
Setting:
Setting Time: 1962 village full of Puritan settlers. The Puritans were very religious but also very superstitious, and things that could not be explained by reason or by the will of God were often point to the work of Satan.
Setting Place: Salem, Massachusetts
Vocabulary:
1. Ameliorate – To make or become better; improve
2. Probity – Integrity and uprightness; honesty
3. Vestry – A room or a building attached to a church
4. Ipso Facto – By the fact itself
5. Sibilance – Hissing sound
Plot:
Exposition:
In a Puritan town of Salem, Massachusetts, a group of girls go dancing in the forest with a slave named Tituba. While they danced, they are caught by the local minister, Reverend Parris. One of the girls is Parris’s daughter, Betty—who falls into a coma. Rumors of witchcraft start roaming around and fill the town. The town has sent for Reverend Hale, a supposed expert on witchcraft. Parris asks Abigail about what happened that night in the forest. Abigail who is Reverend Parris’s niece says nothing else but the fact that they “danced.”
Parris tries to calm the crowd that has piled up in his home, Abigail talks to some of the other girls, telling them not to say anything about that night. John Proctor, a local farmer goes in and talks to Abigail one on one. While working in Proctors home the year before, Abigail and Proctors dark secret is unknown to anyone in the town. Their affair led Abigail to be angry at his wife, Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail obsessively wants Proctor and only him to her, but he tells her off and says to stop the games she has the girls playing on the town.
Rising Action:
Betty soon wakes up and began screaming, everyone rushes upstairs and crowds around her bedroom. Debating whether she is bewitched or not, Proctor and Parris have a separate argument—about money and land. As people argue, Reverend Hale is here and examines Betty. Hale asks Abigail about what the girls did in the forest; he begins to doubt her answers and calls for Tituba. After the interrogation of Parris and Hale on Tituba, she cracks and confesses to talking with the devil. She starts to scream out a whole bunch of names and accuse them of helping the devil. Abigail soon joins Tituba, confessing that she saw the devil talking and scheming with some town folks. Betty soon also joins in, in naming people and the crowd is now in chaos.
Later, alone in their house outside of town, John and Elizabeth Proctor talk about the witch trials going on and how many people have been accused already. Elizabeth tries to persuade John to go and claim Abigail as a fake, he tells her no and she becomes jealous. Elizabeth accuses John of still having feelings for her—Marry Warren, their servant and one of the girls in Abigail’s little scheme comes back from Salem to say that Elizabeth has been accused. Thought the court did not go too deep onto the topic and just dismissed it. Suddenly officers of the court arrive at the Proctor house and arrest Elizabeth. After Elizabeth is taken away, Proctor calls to Mary and beats her, telling her how she must go and expose Abigail and the other girls as liars.
Climax:
Proctor then brings Mary into court and tells Judge Danforth that she would testify against the girls and Abigail that they are all lying. Danforth doesn’t believe Proctor and tells him that Elizabeth is pregnant, and so she would be spared for some time. Proctor keeps insisting that Mary would testify against the girls, and when the girls are brought into court. They turn on Mary and accuse her of bewitching them all—Proctor is furious and then confesses to his crime of adultery with Abigail. Saying that she is doing all of this out of jealousy of his wife. To see if Proctor is telling the truth, Danforth calls for Elizabeth to come in and asks her if Proctor has been in anyway unfaithful to her. She does not know what is going on and so she lies to protect Proctor and his honorable good name. Danforth then accuses Proctor as a liar. Abigail and the other girls start to perform again and pretend that Mary is bewitching them all, forcing Mary to have no choice but to rejoin forces on Abigail’s side in order to save her own life. She accuses Proctor of being a witch in order to go back to Abigail’s side, in anger Proctor goes against Mary and the court causing him to get arrested.
Falling Action and Conclusion:
The witch trials have caused chaos and disturbance in the neighboring towns and Danforth starts to get nervous. Abigail runs away with all of Parris’s savings and money with her. Hale has already lost faith in the court and begs all of the innocently accused to confess to false testimonies in order to save their lives—but they don’t want to. However, Danforth has an idea—he asks Elizabeth to talk to John to persuade him to confess and she agrees to trying. He is troubled with the choice of being alive or living with dishonor—John then agrees to confess. Thought he would not tell anyone else’s name but his own and his own sins that he has committed. They insist that his confession should be made public, and then Proctor gets angry, backs out of the deal, tearing up the piece of document. He later walks his death walk to the gallows with the other prisoners, with both honor and goodness to his name. And the witch trials end.
Quotes:
“She thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave! And well she might, for I thought of her softly. God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whore’s vengeance, and you must see it; I set myself entirely in your hands. I know you must see it now.” (Page 110)
This quote is taken from Act III, when Proctor breaks down and confesses about his affair with Abigail. After trying everything he can do to expose her fraud actions, without having to spill the secret. I agree with this quote and now the cat is out of the bag, Proctor knew from the beginning that the witch trials were nothing more than a “whore’s vengeance,” Abigail’s revenge on Proctor for ending their affair. But she does not make that fact known to the public, which she knows would lead to his disgrace and doesn’t want that for him. In court Proctors self consciously knows that the importance of the justice is bigger than his personal reputation. This drives him to confess and do what is needed to expose Abigail and the witch trials. In horror he realizes his actions are too late, instead Abigail calls Proctor a liar and he is then accused of witchcraft by the court. His good notions lead him to nothing; it simply backfires and destroys him.
“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” (Page 143)
I agree with this quote which is from the end of the play in Act IV, when Proctor is debating with himself if he would confess to a fake testimony and save himself or not. The judges and Hale have convinced him to say a false confession, but the last part is to sign the written testimony. Which Proctor can’t seem to do, he can’t bring himself to give in and sign a fake confession. His will doesn’t let him sign the paper, to dare not dishonor his fellow prisoners who stand by a true confession and will be hanged. He wouldn’t be able to live with himself knowing that the others decided not to take the quick and easy way out to live. It shows how Proctor is so engulfed with having his good name; reputation back then was a huge thing. In the beginning of the play he refuses to confess to adultery to protect his good name. Now he realized what a good reputation means and what you have to do to achieve it. Which means not to lie to save himself, but tell the truth thus leads him to his death—but he kept his goodness.
Conflicts:
Man vs. Society: Proctor vs. Society
Proctor has issues with society, everyone is accusing another person in being witches. People joining in the convicting circle to gain something or just to spite someone. Proctor is the only one how knows/thinks that the girls are just playing with the whole village. Yet Abigail and the girls’ “connection” with God is so strong, this Puritan filled town is willing to believe their every will and call. Proctor cannot get anyone to believe that the girls are lying unless he reveals the deepest, darkest of secrets he can keep as a good man. He must sacrifice his good name in order to get any chance of anyone believing him. Since he would not just willingly throw away his good name for no purpose at all. But in the end spoiling his good name did not do anything for him at all—it was all too late. The girls controlled the whole village, and they could not be stopped. Proctor was arrested and was to be hanged.
Themes:
Reputation
Focused on keeping a public reputation, the people of Salem fear that the sins of their friends will taint their names. Many characters in the book base their actions on the desire to protect their reputations. At the beginning of the play, Rev. Parris fear Abigail's questionable actions, and the hints of witchcraft about his daughter in a coma, which will threaten his reputation and force him from his high representative seat. Meanwhile John Proctor also wants to keep his good name from being ruined. Reputation is tremendously important in Salem, where public and private conducts are one and the same. “I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” (Page 143) Especially where reputation plays such an important role in this situation, the fear of guilt becomes very dangerous. Earlier on in the play, Proctor has the chance to stop the accusations by the girls’, but his obsession to keep a good name keeps him from testifying against Abigail and revealing everything. However at the end of the play, Proctor’s desire to keep his name makes him choose a heroic choice of not to make a false confession. He goes to his death without signing his name to the statement, which lets him regain his good name and die with honor.
Society
The girls’ first accusations start the frenzy that comes, Miller lets us see how peer pressure can lead people into taking part in actions which they know are wrong. “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents’ heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!” (Page 20) Abigail pressures the other girls into doing only what they are told to do. Even though they wanted to get out of it and just tell the truth. In a community like this, reactions to accusations are quickly blamed for and looked down upon. He also connects the huge hysteria of Salem to the community’s religious and strict attitude towards sex. Sexual things done and other physical expression is repressed and broken rules will be whipped for.
Literary Elements:
Symbols
The Witch Trials and McCarthyism:
Throughout The Crucible, the play can be seen as symbolic of the time about communism that affected America in the 1950s. There were many similarities to the House Un-American Activities Committee's strategies of rooting out suspected communists during this time and the seventeenth-century witch-hunt that Miller tells us in The Crucible (the narrow-mindedness). As the accused witches of Salem, likewise the suspected Communists were encouraged to confess their crimes and to “name names,” (“I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.” page 141) identifying others. While there were (as far as we know) no actual witches in Salem, there were actual Communists in 1950s America. However, one can argue that Miller's concern in The Crucible is not with whether the accused were actually witches, but rather with the unwillingness of the court officials to believe that they are not. McCarthyist extremes, which wronged many innocents, this similarity were portrayed strongly in Miller's work and time.
Irony
Abigail claims herself to be so “pure” and “holy”, when she accuses the innocent people of witchcraft and sentences them to death—that’s not a very pure or holy deed to do. Especially when it’s all pretend and fake, someone so pure and holy could not fake others into believing that this one person deserves death because one says so. She also is having a secret affair with John Proctor, “She has an arrow in you yet, John Proctor, and you know it well!” (page 62, Elizabeth), “You love me John Proctor, and whatever sin it is you love me yet!” (page 24, Abigail). Also the whole point of Abigail starting all of this was to get John Proctor all to herself and in the end he wound up dead anyhow. Elizabeth knew the truth about her husband’s affair and expressed it to him directly too. Yet in court when asked and questioned by Judge Danforth she denied any type of unfaithfulness her husband has towards her. “My husband—is a goodly man, sir.” (page 113, Elizabeth). Also when John was asked to recite the 10 commandments for Hale, the one he could not remember is the one he sinned—adultery. “Adultery, John” (page 67, Elizabeth to John).
Metaphor
“Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small” (page 67, Hale).
This is a metaphor said by Hale, addressed to John proctor. Hale had asked John to name all the 10 commandments in order to prove his Christianity towards God. John missed out and forgot to name only one commandment—adultery. He apologized saying it just slipped his mind but Hale answered back with that quote. Comparing his lack of knowledge of his religion to the crack in the fortress. Since back then the Puritans lived their lives around the church and so the church life is the fortress. If one person doesn’t know one commandment, who knows who else doesn’t know worse. Hale is just pointing out that he must know every single thing, not to slip and mess up because that one little default in the whole community—can mess everything up.
Annotated Bibliography:
Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. New York: Viking Penguin Inc. 1953
In a quiet town of Salem, Massachusetts one seventeen year old girl will disturb the peace of that town. Caused by jealousy and anger Abigail Williams will do the unthinkable, start to accuse the innocent who mocked her as devil worshipers. In a Puritan village that is something horrible to be convicted of, and this is all just fun and games for her. Her lover, John Proctor a married man with three children of his own—tries to stop her. But Abigail and her little party of girls’ continue to jingle the keys of the kingdom and not even the truth can stop the convictions from happening. So what can? When will the chaos end?
Monday, October 20, 2008
10/17/08 - 10/20/08
Background for understanding: (The idea of “The cult of True Womanhood,” or “the cult of domesticity,” sought to assert that womanly virtue resided in piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity- The attributes of True Womanhood, by which a woman judged herself and was judged by her husband, her neighbors, and her society could be divided into four cardinal virtues - piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity... Without them.... all was ashes. With them she was promised happiness and power.).
True Women were to hold the four cardinal virtues:
1. Piety - believed to be more religious and spiritual than men
2. Purity - pure in heart, mind, and body
3. Submission - held in "perpetual childhood" where men dictated all actions and decisions
4. Domesticity - a division between work and home, encouraged by the Industrial Revolution; men went out in the world to earn a living, home became the woman's domain where a wife created a "haven in a heartless world" for her husband and children.[1]
Aim: How is Linda Brent portrayed as an unconventional heroine who portrayal as slave challenges the cult of true womanhood while struggling to reclaim her status as a woman, and reconstructing the ideals of women in nineteenth century America?
Do Now: Write a sentence in your notebook starting with I believe that of the four virtues ________ still holds true in today’s society because….
I believe that of the four virtues, purity still holds true in today's society because girls/women in general who are still virgins till the end are labeled as pure. I think that girls now are still a little bit looked down upon if one has sexual intercourse before marriage or at a young age (foolishly). A guy/men might have a lifetime of girlfriends in his life, is acceptable. But for the girl/women if she has more than a limited amount of boyfriends you are looked down upon.
Comprehension Check:
“Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders”
What dehumanization/degradation do we see in Mr. Conant, Mrs. Wade’s?
Mrs. Wade had a special place, the barn to whip and dicipline her slaves when they are bad. Mr. Conant just hangs his slaves by the waste up in a tree infront of the house. Half naked with no clothes and no food or water for a certain amount of time.
What happened to James the slave? (48-49)
He was put into the cotton gin, being starved and dehydrated. One particular slave brung him bread and water. Then for a few days the water was always left untouched--she reported it to her master and found out that he was dead. The rats were eating the food and his body.
According to Linda Brent, what value do women hold? (49)
They hold no value unless its to increase their owners stock. To bread slaves to the owner; to reproduce.
What happened to the “kind mistress/orphan woman” who took inherited a woman and her six children? (50-51)
She had remarried to another white man and he would claimed the slaves as his property. He would take advantage of the female slaves, and so would his brother. He would sell off the offsprings (mulatto) and the mothers away so he wouldn't see them.
Explain:
“The poor worm shall prove her contest vain. Life’s little day shall pass, and she is gone! (52)
Resistance is futile. Slave masters will always have their way and their virtue will be taken away. There is no point in resisting.
Explain: According to Linda Brent, “slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks.” (53)
Slavery is a curse to the whites as well as the blacks. The blacks get the physical abuse and the scars. While the whites are also blackening their minds with this kind of power, this type of control over another human being.
“A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life”
Comprehension Check:
What was Dr. Flint’s new plan for Brent? (53)
Dr. Flint's new plan for Linda is to build a house just for her a few miles away from the mother house.
How old is Linda in this chapter? (55)
She is 15 years old in this chapter.
Literary Analysis:
Characterize Mr. Sands
Hes honorable, generous, kind, educated, eliquite, white, unmarried.
Interpretive:
What did Linda Brent do “with deliberate calculation?” (54-55)
She lost her virtue.
Identify Brent’s use of rhetoric in “Perilous Passage” (54, 56)
In her rhetoric, Brent addresses her readers as “O virtuous reader…” why? (56)
Where do we see hypocrisy of the church? (50)
The church lectures on about how slaves should obey their masters, that is who they are, what they were born to do, and if not--they were sent to hell.
According to Brent, “I feel that the slave woman ought not to be judged by the same standard as others”- Why? (56)
I think Linda meant that because woman slaves have a harder life than men do. The woman slaves have to put up with abuse, sexual abuse most of all. Having to give birth to their children of whom they did not love, and also could not speak who the father was. Slave woman were very restricted about/in a lot of things, that cannot be judged the same as others.
Why did Aunt Marty/Linda’s grandmother ostracize Linda and tell her that she would “rather see you dead than to see you as you now are [pregnant]. You are a disgrace to your mother”? (57)
Because Linda became someone that she and her mother never thought she would turn out to be. Giving in, and doing things the easy way, sleeping with a man that she did not love but just used to try and give her some hope of escape. Her aunt and mother would've wanted to see her fight till the end, even if it meant her death, that was better than Linda being the way she is now.
Critical Thinking: Using the four cardinal virtues
Which of the four cardinal virtues do you think is the most important and why?
What does Linda do that challenges the “cult of true womanhood?”
According to the cardinal virtues that makes the nineteenth century woman a “true woman” is Linda a true woman? Why or Why not?
No, if i were to follow the cardinal virtues that makes her a "true woman" I cannot say she is a "true woman". Linda was not domesticated, she did not believe in religion more than a man would've. She also did not remain virtuous.
Cooperative Learning: Form your Groups and write in your notebooks the following as a header:
Slavery was terrible for both men and women, but one can say that it was far more terrible for women.
Then say if you agree or disagree with this quote and why.
Finally, cite your sources using citations from the text and page numbers.
We agree with this statement because in the book she has given many situations about slave women suffering. On page 84, "the child shall follow the condition of the mother," saying how the mother has to hold grief for bringing in a child and yet the child has to bear the life the mother went through.
Homework:
Answer the following question in a paragraph:
How does she struggle to reclaim her status as a woman and reconstruct the ideals of women in the nineteenth century?
Read chapters: XII, XIII, XIV, and XV. Your first test will be held on: October 27th. Based on chapters 6-15.
Vocabulary Words to know:
IX:
Depredations (46) - the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage
Inducement (46) - to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind
Interred (47) - to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury
Divested(47) - To deprive, as of rights or property; dispossess
Cessation (47) - a temporary or complete stopping; discontinuance
Manumit (50) - to release from slavery or servitude
Inculcated (51) - to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly
Licentiousness (51) - sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd
X:
Abyss (54) - a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm
Eloquent (55) - having or exercising the power of fluent, forceful, and appropriate speech
Sophistry (55) - a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning
True Women were to hold the four cardinal virtues:
1. Piety - believed to be more religious and spiritual than men
2. Purity - pure in heart, mind, and body
3. Submission - held in "perpetual childhood" where men dictated all actions and decisions
4. Domesticity - a division between work and home, encouraged by the Industrial Revolution; men went out in the world to earn a living, home became the woman's domain where a wife created a "haven in a heartless world" for her husband and children.[1]
Aim: How is Linda Brent portrayed as an unconventional heroine who portrayal as slave challenges the cult of true womanhood while struggling to reclaim her status as a woman, and reconstructing the ideals of women in nineteenth century America?
Do Now: Write a sentence in your notebook starting with I believe that of the four virtues ________ still holds true in today’s society because….
I believe that of the four virtues, purity still holds true in today's society because girls/women in general who are still virgins till the end are labeled as pure. I think that girls now are still a little bit looked down upon if one has sexual intercourse before marriage or at a young age (foolishly). A guy/men might have a lifetime of girlfriends in his life, is acceptable. But for the girl/women if she has more than a limited amount of boyfriends you are looked down upon.
Comprehension Check:
“Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders”
What dehumanization/degradation do we see in Mr. Conant, Mrs. Wade’s?
Mrs. Wade had a special place, the barn to whip and dicipline her slaves when they are bad. Mr. Conant just hangs his slaves by the waste up in a tree infront of the house. Half naked with no clothes and no food or water for a certain amount of time.
What happened to James the slave? (48-49)
He was put into the cotton gin, being starved and dehydrated. One particular slave brung him bread and water. Then for a few days the water was always left untouched--she reported it to her master and found out that he was dead. The rats were eating the food and his body.
According to Linda Brent, what value do women hold? (49)
They hold no value unless its to increase their owners stock. To bread slaves to the owner; to reproduce.
What happened to the “kind mistress/orphan woman” who took inherited a woman and her six children? (50-51)
She had remarried to another white man and he would claimed the slaves as his property. He would take advantage of the female slaves, and so would his brother. He would sell off the offsprings (mulatto) and the mothers away so he wouldn't see them.
Explain:
“The poor worm shall prove her contest vain. Life’s little day shall pass, and she is gone! (52)
Resistance is futile. Slave masters will always have their way and their virtue will be taken away. There is no point in resisting.
Explain: According to Linda Brent, “slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks.” (53)
Slavery is a curse to the whites as well as the blacks. The blacks get the physical abuse and the scars. While the whites are also blackening their minds with this kind of power, this type of control over another human being.
“A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life”
Comprehension Check:
What was Dr. Flint’s new plan for Brent? (53)
Dr. Flint's new plan for Linda is to build a house just for her a few miles away from the mother house.
How old is Linda in this chapter? (55)
She is 15 years old in this chapter.
Literary Analysis:
Characterize Mr. Sands
Hes honorable, generous, kind, educated, eliquite, white, unmarried.
Interpretive:
What did Linda Brent do “with deliberate calculation?” (54-55)
She lost her virtue.
Identify Brent’s use of rhetoric in “Perilous Passage” (54, 56)
In her rhetoric, Brent addresses her readers as “O virtuous reader…” why? (56)
Where do we see hypocrisy of the church? (50)
The church lectures on about how slaves should obey their masters, that is who they are, what they were born to do, and if not--they were sent to hell.
According to Brent, “I feel that the slave woman ought not to be judged by the same standard as others”- Why? (56)
I think Linda meant that because woman slaves have a harder life than men do. The woman slaves have to put up with abuse, sexual abuse most of all. Having to give birth to their children of whom they did not love, and also could not speak who the father was. Slave woman were very restricted about/in a lot of things, that cannot be judged the same as others.
Why did Aunt Marty/Linda’s grandmother ostracize Linda and tell her that she would “rather see you dead than to see you as you now are [pregnant]. You are a disgrace to your mother”? (57)
Because Linda became someone that she and her mother never thought she would turn out to be. Giving in, and doing things the easy way, sleeping with a man that she did not love but just used to try and give her some hope of escape. Her aunt and mother would've wanted to see her fight till the end, even if it meant her death, that was better than Linda being the way she is now.
Critical Thinking: Using the four cardinal virtues
Which of the four cardinal virtues do you think is the most important and why?
What does Linda do that challenges the “cult of true womanhood?”
According to the cardinal virtues that makes the nineteenth century woman a “true woman” is Linda a true woman? Why or Why not?
No, if i were to follow the cardinal virtues that makes her a "true woman" I cannot say she is a "true woman". Linda was not domesticated, she did not believe in religion more than a man would've. She also did not remain virtuous.
Cooperative Learning: Form your Groups and write in your notebooks the following as a header:
Slavery was terrible for both men and women, but one can say that it was far more terrible for women.
Then say if you agree or disagree with this quote and why.
Finally, cite your sources using citations from the text and page numbers.
We agree with this statement because in the book she has given many situations about slave women suffering. On page 84, "the child shall follow the condition of the mother," saying how the mother has to hold grief for bringing in a child and yet the child has to bear the life the mother went through.
Homework:
Answer the following question in a paragraph:
How does she struggle to reclaim her status as a woman and reconstruct the ideals of women in the nineteenth century?
Read chapters: XII, XIII, XIV, and XV. Your first test will be held on: October 27th. Based on chapters 6-15.
Vocabulary Words to know:
IX:
Depredations (46) - the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage
Inducement (46) - to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind
Interred (47) - to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury
Divested(47) - To deprive, as of rights or property; dispossess
Cessation (47) - a temporary or complete stopping; discontinuance
Manumit (50) - to release from slavery or servitude
Inculcated (51) - to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly
Licentiousness (51) - sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd
X:
Abyss (54) - a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm
Eloquent (55) - having or exercising the power of fluent, forceful, and appropriate speech
Sophistry (55) - a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning
Friday, October 17, 2008
10/16/08
Objectives: Students will evaluate literary merit based on an understanding of the genre, and the literary period and tradition. Students will make connections to world, and self.
Aim: What are slaves taught to think of the North, and why are they depicted as inferior?
Do Now: Write about a time when you were either deceived/lead to think about something that was not true. I recall a time when…
Comprehension Check:
What do slaveholders pride themselves on?
How does Jacobs’ literacy prove valuable to herself and community?
Interpretive/Explain:
Why does Jacobs say that liberty “is more valuable than life” (43)?
Why has northerners proved to be “apt scholars?” (44)
Why does Linda Brent say that she admits that the “black man is inferior?” (43)
Connect/Recall:Recall any moment in history where the “non-anglo” male is considered or treated as inferior: World War II Internment of the Japanese or 29 Mar 1968, Memphis, Tennessee, USA --- US National Guard troops block off Beale Street as Civil Rights marchers pass by on March 29, 1968. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
See mshyde.net for images.
Critical Thinking:
Do you think non-anglo males and females are treated unfairly or as inferior in today’s society? Take a look at the following report by Pedro A. Noguera, Ph. D is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.
In my own research at high schools in northern California, I have obtained consistent evidence that most Black students value education and would like to succeed in school. In response to a survey about their experiences in school, nearly 90% of the Black male respondents (N=147) responded "agree" or "strongly agree" to the questions, "I think education is important", and "I want to go to college.” However, in response to the following questions: "I work hard to achieve good grades" and "My teachers treat me fairly", less than a quarter of the respondents, 22% and 18% respectively, responded affirmatively. An analysis of just these responses to the survey suggests a disturbing discrepancy between what students claim they feel about the importance of education, the effort they expend, and the support they receive from teachers.(71) Similar results were obtained from a survey of 537 seniors at an academic magnet high school. African American males were least likely to indicate that they agreed or strongly agreed with the statement, "My teachers support me and care about my success in their class.” (Figure 1).
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/er/pntroub1.html
Cooperative Learning:
Cite from the text at least five instances where the characters suffers further dehumanization and degradation in chapters "The Lover" and “What slaves are taught to think of the North”
Share out!
Connect to World by writing in your notebooks:
Where in today’s society are we witnesses to “liberty more valuable than life”? Do you agree with this quote? Why or why not?
Works Cited:
Pedro A. Noguera, Ph. D is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimberlyb/1340293354/ (Civil Rights March Image)
Aim: What are slaves taught to think of the North, and why are they depicted as inferior?
Do Now: Write about a time when you were either deceived/lead to think about something that was not true. I recall a time when…
Comprehension Check:
What do slaveholders pride themselves on?
How does Jacobs’ literacy prove valuable to herself and community?
Interpretive/Explain:
Why does Jacobs say that liberty “is more valuable than life” (43)?
Why has northerners proved to be “apt scholars?” (44)
Why does Linda Brent say that she admits that the “black man is inferior?” (43)
Connect/Recall:Recall any moment in history where the “non-anglo” male is considered or treated as inferior: World War II Internment of the Japanese or 29 Mar 1968, Memphis, Tennessee, USA --- US National Guard troops block off Beale Street as Civil Rights marchers pass by on March 29, 1968. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
See mshyde.net for images.
Critical Thinking:
Do you think non-anglo males and females are treated unfairly or as inferior in today’s society? Take a look at the following report by Pedro A. Noguera, Ph. D is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.
In my own research at high schools in northern California, I have obtained consistent evidence that most Black students value education and would like to succeed in school. In response to a survey about their experiences in school, nearly 90% of the Black male respondents (N=147) responded "agree" or "strongly agree" to the questions, "I think education is important", and "I want to go to college.” However, in response to the following questions: "I work hard to achieve good grades" and "My teachers treat me fairly", less than a quarter of the respondents, 22% and 18% respectively, responded affirmatively. An analysis of just these responses to the survey suggests a disturbing discrepancy between what students claim they feel about the importance of education, the effort they expend, and the support they receive from teachers.(71) Similar results were obtained from a survey of 537 seniors at an academic magnet high school. African American males were least likely to indicate that they agreed or strongly agreed with the statement, "My teachers support me and care about my success in their class.” (Figure 1).
| “My teachers support me and care about my success in their class" | ||||||
| | Black Male | Black Female | Asian Male | Asian Female | White Male | White Female |
| Strongly Agree | 8% | 12% | 24% | 36% | 33% | 44% |
| Agree | 12% | 16% | 42% | 33% | 21% | 27% |
| Disagree | 38% | 45% | 16% | 15% | 18% | 11% |
| Strongly Disagree | 42% | 27% | 18% | 16% | 28% | 18% |
| N=537 | | | | | | |
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/er/pntroub1.html
Cooperative Learning:
Cite from the text at least five instances where the characters suffers further dehumanization and degradation in chapters "The Lover" and “What slaves are taught to think of the North”
| Chapter | Character | Example of Dehumanization/Degradation | Works Cited |
Share out!
Connect to World by writing in your notebooks:
Where in today’s society are we witnesses to “liberty more valuable than life”? Do you agree with this quote? Why or why not?
Works Cited:
Pedro A. Noguera, Ph. D is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimberlyb/1340293354/ (Civil Rights March Image)
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
10/15/08
Aim: What are slaves taught to think of the North, and why are they depicted as inferior?
Do Now: Write about a time when you were either deceived/lead to think about something that was not true. I recall a time when…
Comprehension Check:
What do slaveholders pride themselves on?
How does Jacobs’ literacy prove valuable to herself and community?
Interpretive:
Why does Jacobs say that liberty “is more valuable than life” (43)?
Why has northerners proved to be “apt scholars?” (44)
Why does says that she admits that the “black man is inferior?” (43)
Cooperative Learning:
Cite from the text as many instances where the characters suffers further dehumanization and degradation in "The Lover"
"The Lover"
Share out!
Connect to World
Where in today’s society that we are witnesses to “liberty more valuable than life”?
Homework:
Research the Fugitive Slave Law Act
Was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
Research the Mason and Dixon Line
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were the two survivors who mapped out this boundary between the northern and southern states (free and slave).
Read Chapters IX, X, XI. Getting very intense.
Do Now: Write about a time when you were either deceived/lead to think about something that was not true. I recall a time when…
Comprehension Check:
What do slaveholders pride themselves on?
How does Jacobs’ literacy prove valuable to herself and community?
Interpretive:
Why does Jacobs say that liberty “is more valuable than life” (43)?
Why has northerners proved to be “apt scholars?” (44)
Why does says that she admits that the “black man is inferior?” (43)
Cooperative Learning:
Cite from the text as many instances where the characters suffers further dehumanization and degradation in "The Lover"
"The Lover"
| Character | Example of Dehumanization/Degradation | Works Cited |
Connect to World
Where in today’s society that we are witnesses to “liberty more valuable than life”?
Homework:
Research the Fugitive Slave Law Act
Was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
Research the Mason and Dixon Line
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were the two survivors who mapped out this boundary between the northern and southern states (free and slave).
Read Chapters IX, X, XI. Getting very intense.
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