JOURNALS 41 50 Honors World Literature Fall 2016

JOURNALS 41 -50 Honors World Literature: Fall, 2016

Journal #41 Read and Consider, DO NOT COPY: There were many seas. The sea roared like a tiger. The sea whispered in your ear like a friend telling you secrets. The sea clinked like small change in a pocket. The sea thundered like avalanches. The sea hissed like sandpaper working on wood. The sea sounded like someone vomiting. The sea was dead silent. –Life of Pi, page 215 Answer: 1. What rhetorical devices do you recognize in this passage from Yann Martel’s Life of Pi? List 3. 2. Choose 1 of the 3 devices and explain its purpose. Connect to what is going on in this moment and/or the book as a whole (the meaning). 3. What makes the last sentence stand out? How does that connect to the meaning of the book as a whole? Apply: Choose an object to describe, any object. Using the passage above as an example, write 4 -5 short, simple sentences that incorporate the same rhetorical devices to describe the different aspects/personalities of your object. Also, end with a sentence that conveys your overall feelings about the object.

Look at your passage from yesterday and complete the following on the back: 1. What rhetorical devices are repeatedly used throughout the passage? Don’t answer, but think about WHY they are used. 2. What is the mood/tone of the passage? Don’t answer, but think about how that mood/tone is created. 3. What is the author’s purpose for incorporating this passage in the novel? 4. What is the most powerful line in the passage? Why? 5. Connect the message in this passage to the following: Text to self, text to text, text to world? ***You will write on this passage tomorrow, so please know it inside and out. It will be a 25 minute time writing. LIFE OF PI PASSAGE

Write about the worst enemy you have ever had to face/battle. The enemy can be an actual person, or it can be an emotion (like jealousy, fear, hate) or it can be something non-human (like disease, race, religious beliefs, etc). JOURNAL #42

If I were a bug… JOURNAL #43

Copy the following Notes under Journal #43: • Franz Kafka (1883 -1924) • Born in Prague • 1 of 4 children • German speaking Jew in a Czech-speaking gentile world (feelings of alienation) • Complicated father issue: father overly strict, yet Kafka sought his constant approval • Studied law at The University of Prague • Worked at Italian law firm • Kafkaesque: term that describes a nightmarish mood—specifically, the feeling that one is trapped in an intense, distorted world and danger is close at hand. • “The Metamorphosis” written in 1915 (ON PAGE 1066) • Explores the consequences of repressing true desires and living according to the expectations of others “METAMORPHOSIS” BY FRANZ KAFKA

Journal #44 My Halloween plans are… ***Take things out of your folders. Leave ALL writing.

Copy and answer: • Modern Time period: 1890 -1945 • A movement in all the arts that called in to question the values and traditions of the past (discard the past and find something new that reflects the changing world). The movement was in response to the advances in transportation and communication, the growth of cities, and the devastating new modes of war fare. Characteristics include: • Attempted to capture the realities of modern life • Express sense of uncertainty and alienation • Leave readers to draw their own conclusions • Literature of the fantastic: genre that mixes imagination and reality to entertain and challenge readers • Vibrant imagery, unsettling ideas, profound artistic experiments • How does “Metamorphosis” fit these characteristics of the Modernist era? JOURNAL #45: MODERNISM NOTES

Read the graphic novel version of “Metamorphosis, ” Part 3. After you finish, answer the following questions: 1. How do you feel about the ending? 2. What do you think Kafka wants the audience to gain from Gregor’s story? Explain. 3. How do you feel about Gregor’s father in the end? Mother? 4. How do you feel about Gregor’s sister in the end? 5. Connect to Oedipus. 6. Connect to Life of Pi. “METAMORPHOSIS” PART 3

For review: Journal #46 3 -2 -1 3 facts about Oedipus the King. 2 conflicts in “Metamorphosis. ” 1 theme in Life of Pi.

Journal #47 Write a letter expressing your thoughts and feelings (whatever they may be) about the election. Begin it: Dear America…

A Thousand Splendid Suns Chapter 1 Passage Annotations Annotate for the following: • Figurative Language • Diction • Syntax • Connections • Questions After, in space at the end of the passage, determine tone, mood and purpose.

_____Hook/Introduce topic _____Claim _____Lead ins to all quotes (ONY USE BLENDED IN THIS RESPONSE) _____Textual evidence incorporated for support _____Transitions between sentences and ideas _____Original ideas, well-developed _____No personal pronouns (I, me, my) _____No contractions, abbreviations, informal language _____Avoid repetitious wording (especially at the beginnings of sentences), repetitious short, simple sentence _____Make sure that book title is underlined PARAGRAPH CHECK LIST

Read and Consider (DO NOT COPY): “Then, a week before the wedding date, a jinn had entered Nana's body. This required no description to Mariam. She had witnessed it enough times with her own eyes: Nana collapsing suddenly, her body tightening, becoming rigid, her eyes rolling back, her arms and legs shaking as if something were throttling her from the inside, the froth at the corners of her mouth, white, sometimes pink with blood. Then the drowsiness, the frightening disorientation, the incoherent mumbling. ” –A Thousand Splendid Suns Answer: 1. What is Mariam’s attitude (tone) towards Nana’s “jinn”? Is her attitude similar or different to the mood of the overall passage? Explain. 2. What is the purpose of the author’s use of tri colon in the final sentence? How is asyndeton evident in the passage? Explain the effect of these terms in the passage. Apply: Using parallel structure and asyndeton, describe a scary moment in your life. JOURNAL #48

Create a T chart in your journal notebook under Journal #48. On one side, label “Cats in the Cradle” On the opposite side, label “Wishin’ and Hopin’” As you listen to the songs play, write down details, thoughts, ideas about how gender roles are represented in each song. After listening to each song, CHOOSE which song you think is more accurate in today’s society as far as how it represents men/women. Explain why you chose the song that you did. SONG LYRICS:

Copy and respond to the following quotes: “The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society. ” Journal #49 -Henrik Ibsen “The devil is compromise. ” -Henrik Ibsen

Copy and annotate: I hear an army charging upon the land, And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees: Arrogant, in black armor, behind them stand, Disdaining the reins, with fluttering whips, the charioteers. --James Joyce, “I Hear an Army Charging Upon the Land” Answer: 1. What is the subject of the verb stand in line 3? This is an example of an anastrophe. How does the authors use of anastrophe affect the impact of those lines? 2. Examine the adjectives and adjective phrases in lines 3 and 4: arrogant, in black armor. What do these adjectives modify? What is the impact of the word order on these lines? Apply: Write a sentence about a car crash. In your sentence, use an anastrophe. Try to make your sentence sound natural and powerful. JOURNAL #50

Role: Nora, Krogstad, Mrs. Linde or Helmer (choose 1…think about their voice) Audience: Themselves Format: Diary entry (2/3 -1 full page) Topic: Secrets/Corruption A DOLL HOUSE : ACT 1