JOURNAL 9 JANUARY 2012

What is the message of this political cartoon?

JOURNAL10 JANUARY 2012

Team leaders: Get team comp. books Pick up “If Fred…” for team members (comp.

table) Pick up 1 “Current Events Analysis”

Team members: Read “If Fred…” Discuss questions on “Current Events

Analysis” with team All: review vocabulary

POETRY IN THE REALISM ERA

1. Native Americans2. Early Explorers3. Puritans4. Age of Reason/Enlightenment5. Romanticism,

Transcendentalism, Anti-Transcendentalism

6. Realism, Naturalism, Regionalism

7. Modernism8. Post-Modernism

JOURNAL11 JANUARY 2012

TAKING NOTES

Use your journal Write small pieces of

information Think of what would be highlighted

What is the purpose of taking notes?

Format your notes Use bullets, numbers, or Roman numerals

SPIRITUALS—TAKE NOTES

Oral literature Regionalism Enslaved and oppressed Social and religious content “Call and Response” pattern Pain and yearning for freedom Slave codes

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

“Every tone was a testimony against slavery and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.”

LITERARY TERMS

Lyric Poetry Alliteration Apostrophe Paradox Metaphor

Extended metaphor

Universal Theme

Allusion Rhetorical

Strategies• Repetition• Call & Response• Simplicity• Motivational & Metaphorical

SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT

Swing low, sweet chariot,Coming for to carry me homeSwing low, sweet chariot,Coming for to carry me home

I looked over Jordan, and I what did I seeComing for to carry me home?A band of angels coming after meComing for to carry me home

If you get there before I doComing for to carry me homeTell all my friends I coming tooComing for to carry me home

I'm sometimes up, I'm sometimes downComing for to carry me homeBut still my soul feels heavenly boundComing for to carry me home

Notice the Refrain that adds strength to the piece.

ANALYSIS

What devices were used? What is the author’s purpose?

What is the tone of the song?

HARRIET TUBMAN

The Moses of her people“When dat ar ole chariot comes,I'm gwine to lebe you,I'm boun' for de promised land,Frien's, I'm gwine to lebe you.I'm sorry, frien's, to lebe you,Farewell ! oh, farewell!But I'll meet you in de mornin',Farewell! oh, farewell!I'll meet you in de mornin',When you reach de promised land;On de oder side of Jordan,For I'm boun' for de promised land.”

GO DOWN, MOSES

Go down MosesWay down in Egypt landTell ole PharaohTo let my people go

When Israel was in Egypt landLet my people goOppressed so hard the could not standLet my people go

Go down MosesWay down in Egypt landTell ole Pharaoh“To let my people go”

“Thus spoke the Lord”, bold Moses saidLet my people go;“If not, I’ll smite your first born deadLet my people go

Go down MosesWay down in Egypt landTell ole Pharaoh“To let my people go”

“WE WEAR THE MASK” BY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

We wear the mask that grins and lies,  It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—  This debt we pay to human guile;  With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,  And mouth with myriad subtleties.  Why should the world be over-wise,  In counting all our tears and sighs?  Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask. 

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise.  We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile;  But let the world dream otherwise,  We wear the mask!

Most lines in the poem are in iambic tetrameter. In this metric pattern, a line has four pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables, for a total eight syllables.

      1................2................. 3...............4 We WEAR..|..the MASK..|..that GRINS..|..and LIES,         1................2................. 3...............4 It HIDES..|..our CHEEKS..|..and SHADES..|..our EYES,—         1................2........ 3.............4 This DEBT..|..we PAY..|..to HU..|..man GUILE;         1...................2................. 3.................4 With TORN..|..and BLEED..|..ing HEARTS..|..we SMILE,         1...................2............... 3.............4 And MOUTH..|..with MYR..|..iad SUBT..|..le TIES. 

METER

WE WEAR THE MASK

Which literary devices are used in this poem?

What is the paradox in this poem?

What is the universal theme?

I went to the dances at Chandlerville,And played snap-out at Winchester.One time we changed partners,Driving home in the moonlight of middle June,And then I found Davis.

We were married and lived together for seventy years,Enjoying, working, raising the twelve children,Eight of whom we lostEre I had reached the age of sixty.

LUCINDA MATLOCK BY EDGAR LEE MASTERS

I spun, I wove, I kept the house, I nursed the sick,I made the garden, and for holidayRambled over the fields where sang the larks,And by Spoon River gathering many a shell,And many a flower and medicinal weed—Shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys.

LUCINDA MATLOCK CONT’D

At ninety-six I had lived enough, that is all,And passed to a sweet repose.What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness,Anger, discontent and drooping hopes?Degenerate sons and daughters,Life is too strong for you—It takes life to love Life. 

LUCINDA MATLOCK CONT’D

What is the author’s tone? What is the author’s message? Is this theme universal? Explain.

Do you think she’s right? Justify.

LUCINDA MATLOCK CONT’D

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that -- let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi -- from every mountainside!

WORKS CITED

Information fromhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides4/Dunbar.htmlhttp://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/spirituals#sect-activities

13 JANUARY 2012

Happy Friday! Get comp. book Open to notes from Wednesday &

Thursday Take Quiz Pick up Homework (due

Wednesday) Remember why we have Monday

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