Updated SSR Count

Aguilera Brown: 179
Cabrera Gonzalez: 1065
Chihan Caballero: 780
Chung: 644
Enns: 190
Kim Han: 453
Kim Kim: 991
Kwak, Joo Hye: 484
Kwak, Joo Young: 996
Lee, T: 0
Lee, Haeun: 707
Lee, Lidia: 1204
Sosa Coronel: 1788
Su Tai: 1040
Volpe Von Horoch: 1100

Study Guide

11^th Grade Study Guide

Be familiar with all of the following stories/journals.  How do they connect to one-another?  The test will not have any surprises.  What we covered in class will be covered on the test.  Yes, you need to be familiar with all the vocabulary (from units 1-8).

Literary terms/words

Myth

Tone

Maxim

Psychological effects of slavery

Natural and artificial aristocracy

Personal narrative

Race/racial identity

Paternalism

Themes

Man vs. nature

Individualism

Culture clash

Reading/Journals

Thoreau: from Walden and Civil Disobedience

Read pages 374-381.  There will be a quiz on Monday.

Journal 25: Nature and Self-Reliance by Emerson

Pages 364-367. Answer all of the following questions.  NATURE: What does nature bring to man? How?  How does nature "wear the colors of the spirit?"  SELF-RELIANCE: What does he dislike about society?  What does he promote about the individual?

Journal 24: Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Read pages 332-344.Give one quote to demonstrate Starbuck's opinion of Ahab. Explain.  Give another quote to describe Ahab's view on the world.  Why do you think the quote demonstrates Ahab's view on the world?  How does Ahab compare himself to the ship and the mast?  How does the story conclude?  Do you agree or disagree with a the conclusion.  Give one quote to support your argument.

Journal 23: The Civil War

Why was slavery such a big issue?  Why did Lincoln decide to go to war?  What were a few things you learned from the packet?  Give one or two quotes and explain them.

Journal 22: The Divine Purpose of Slavery Packet

How has the legitimacy of Christianity and the Bible been used to promote paternalistic attitudes towards slaves and the divine purpose of slavery?  Give at least 3 quotes from the packet to support your reasoning. 1 page journal.

Journal 21: The Fall of the House of Usher by Poe

Read the rest of the story, pages 299-308.  Then answer the following question with 3/4 page journal.  Describe Roderick's fantasy world/mental state with quotes from the story.  What are some details about the horror of the house?  What are the negative effects of isolation?  Give at least 3 quotes.

Journal 20: Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

Read pages 454-460 (end of story).  Then write a one page journal on the change in Rip's life. What is different?  What is his response?  How does this story show cultural shifts and development?  Use at least 3 quotes from the story. 

Journal 19: Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

Read pages 448-454 (the end of the third complete paragraph it says..., "and he fell into a deep sleep.") Then write a one page journal on Rip's demeanor.  How does he react to the people in his town?  Describe his relationship with his wife?  What kind of person is he?  Use at least 3 quotes from the story.

Journal 18: Due Friday Oct 19th William Apess

Read An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man page 477-482.  Cite at least three explainations or arguments that Apess makes to advocate equal treatment for white people and Native American people. How can this be applied to society today? 

Journal 17: Longfellow

Read pages 250-252 "A Psalm of Life" and "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls" by Longfellow. Then answer the personal response question on page 255.Do we leave "Footprints on the sands of time" or does death erase all traces of our lives?  In a brief paper, contrast the views presented in the two poems. With which viewpoint do you agree? Why?

Journal 16: The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving

Read pages 236-245.  Journal question:  Do you think Tom Walker's exchange with the Devil was lucrative (spiritually and financially)?  Why?  What was Walker's greatest flaw?

Journal 15: Briton Hammon Narrative

Read pages 419-424.  How did transatlantic trade (of slaves, servants, guns, etc.) impact Hammon's life?  What conclusions can you draw about Hammon? Who did he identify himself with culturally and socially?  Use at least 2 examples.

Journal 14 Jefferson

Read pages 342-349 (Letter to John Adams and Notes on the State of Virginia) in your packet.  Then answer the following questions 1. (Notes...Virginia) What is Jefferson's arguement against the aristocracy of the clergy? 2. (Letter...Adams)  Define a natural aristocracy and an artificial artistocracy? Explain the difference between the two.

Journal 13: Jefferson

The Declaration of Independence (read it).  What does it mean to be American according to Jefferson?  How did the declaration not apply to African Americans?

Journal 12: Racism

Why did racism form in the early colonies? 3/4 page journal

Journal 11: Wheatley Cont.

Read "To S.M....His Works," "To His Excellency General Washington," "To the Right...North America," and "To Maecenas" by Phillis Wheatley.  Also RE-read the first paragraph of the bio on page 366. Then chose two of her works of poetry and analyze how her African or Christian identity could have played a role on the overall tone and message of the poem.  Provide textual evidence (3 examples min.)

Journal 10: Phillis Wheatley

Read "On Being Brought from Africa to America, To the University of Cambridge, in New England, On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, and Thoughts on the Works of Providence" by Phillis Wheatley.  Also read the first paragraph of the bio on page 366. Then chose two of her works of poetry and analyze how her African identity could have played a role on the overall tone and message of the poem.  Provide textual evidence (3 examples min.)

Journal 9: Equiano

Read Olaudah Equiano's Narrative of the Life pages 351-360 and answer the following question.

What could be psychological affects of such an experience?  Give specific experiences of Equiano's.  What were negative and positive impacts of the slave trade?  (you define what negative/positive is).

Journal 8 Edwards

"Personal Narrative" by Johnathan Edwards.

Read the narrative and compare and contrast your faith with Edwards?

Journal 7: Franklin Savages of North America

After reading, write a 1 page journal on how Franklin compares Native American and European customs and culture.  What is Franklin's perspective?

Journal 6 Franklin

After reading The Way to Wealth and Remarks...North America by Benjamin Franklin pg 219-230.  Choose one of Franklin's maxims and critically disagree with it.  Maxims are general rules or principals that are held to be true.

Journal 5

Alvar Nunez Cabeza Vaca 29-36

Garcilaso de la vega 37-42

Read and answer the following questions:

1. What is the persepective of each explorer towards the place they were exploring/land?

2. How do Native American perspectives of life differ from the explorers.

Journal 4: August 10

HOMEWORK:  John Smith From General History of Virginia… From a description of New England…From New England’s Trials. Pg 44-59

How do Smith’s and Columbus’ attitude (tone) compare/differ?

Journal 3 Read Christopher Colombus "From Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage. and From Letter to Ferdinand and Iswabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage.  pg 26-29

Journal 2 Read pgs 17-24 "The Iroquois Creation Story" and "Pima Stories of the Beginning of the World" and "The Story of the Creation."  Then answer in a 3/4 page journal... What is the tone of the story?  What specific words add to the tone? Explain your answer. 

Journal 1

 “The Earth on Turtle’s Back” by Caduto and Bruchac pg 22-23  

“When Grizzlies Walked Upright” Erdoes and Ortiz pg 24-25

“Navajo” Matthews pg 26-27

“The Iroquois Constitution” Parker pg 28-29

What tone do the authors have in respect to nature? How do the stories reflect their heritage, traditions, attitudes and beliefs?  How can you tell (use information from the text)? How do these creation stories differ from/relate to the Biblical creation story.

Unit 1

Approbation      assuage                                coalition               decadence          elicit       expostulate        hackneyed

Hiatus   innuendo            intercede            jaded    lurid       meritorious        petulant               prerogative

Provincial             simulate               transcend            umbrage              unctuous

Unit 2

Ameliorate         aplomb                 bombastic           callow                   drivel                     epitome               exhort

                Ex officio              infringe                                ingratiate             interloper            intrinsic                inveigh

Lassitude             millennium         occult                    permeate            precipitate          stringent              surmise

Unit 3

Abominate         acculturation    adventitious        ascribe  circuitous            commiserate   enjoin

expedite              expiate      ferment          inadvertent        nominal        noncommittal           peculate

proclivity              sangfroid             seditious              tenuous               vitriolic                  wheedle             

Unit 4 affable     aggrandize          amorphous         aura       contraband         erudite                 gossamer

Infer      inscrutable          insular   irrevocable         propensity          querulous           remonstrate

Repudiate           resilient                reverberate       scurrilous             sedulous              sleazy

Unit 5 amnesty autonomy           axiomatic             blazon   caveat   equitable             extricate              filch

Flout      fractious              precept                                salutary                                scathing               scourge                                sepulchral

Soporific              straitlaced           transient              unwieldy             vapid

Unit 6    anomalous          aspersion            bizarre  brusque               cajole    castigate              contrive

Demagogue       disabuse              ennui    fetter    heinous                                immutable          insurgent             megalomania                sinecure               surreptitious      transgress           transmute           vicarious

Unit 7 austere   beneficent          cadaverous         concoct                                crass      debase                 desecrate

Disconcert           grandiose            inconsequential                                infraction             mitigate               pillage

Prate     punctilious          redoubtable       reprove                                restitution           stalwart                vulnerable

Unit 8 acrimonious          bovine  consternation    corpulent            disavow               dispassionate

dissension           dissipate              expurgate           gauntlet               hypothetical       ignoble    Impugn intemperate   odium                perfidy                 relegate               squeamish  subservient                                susceptible

Journal 26: Emily Dickinson's Poems

Read pages 396-401. Give the title of three of the poems and give your reaction to the three poems.  How does Dickinson use figurative language to add to the meaning of her poem? Quote at least one line from each poem.

1 page journal

Thoreau: from Walden and Civil Disobedience

Read pages 374-381.  There will be a quiz on Monday.

Journal 25: Nature and Self-Reliance by Emerson

Pages 364-367. Answer all of the following questions.  NATURE: What does nature bring to man? How?  How does nature "wear the colors of the spirit?"  SELF-RELIANCE: What does he dislike about society?  What does he promote about the individual?

1 page minimum.
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Journal 24: Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Read pages 332-344.

Give one quote to demonstrate Starbuck's opinion of Ahab. Explain.  Give another quote to describe Ahab's view on the world.  Why do you think the quote demonstrates Ahab's view on the world?  How does Ahab compare himself to the ship and the mast?  How does the story conclude?  Do you agree or disagree with a the conclusion.  Give one quote to support your argument.

SAMPLE BOOK REPORT

Ms. Student

Mr. Scandrett

English 12^th

May 13, 2012

Fatalism in Slaughterhouse-Five

            The events that happen in our life are all the effects of the choices that we make. One can choose to do something and this choice will affect the course of their life. Everything in life has been established and people simply choose a path that they wish to follow. There are many outcomes from a choice that one makes, but only one course will occur. Despite all these choices that we make there is one inevitable thing that we can never change and its death. The novel “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut, tells the reader that in order to face death one must embrace fatalism.       

            “Slaughterhouse-Five” relates the entire life of Billy Pilgrim. He is a normal man that amazingly has the ability to time travel. He jumps to different moments in his life and has no control over this extraordinary ability. The wonders of his life are not limited to time traveling. He is abducted by aliens and taken to their planet, Trafalmadore, where he learns a whole new philosophy on time and death. This philosophy eventually helps Billy cope with life after the devastating fire-bombing of Dresden, where tens of thousands of people died. In this novel, Billy learns how to embrace fatalism and accept his death without remorse. His acceptance of this new philosophy is seen through the following quote “I Billy Pilgrim, the tape begins, will die, have died and always will die on February 13, 1976 (Vonnegut, 70).”  He then proceeds to describe other details of his death.  Even though he knows how and when his death takes place he makes no attempt to prevent it. Billy Pilgrim learns through his experience that fatalism is inevitable. 

            A major plot of this novel is the firebombing of Dresden. The reader would expect to have some sort of hero in the story. On the contrary the reader is presented with Billy Pilgrim. He is weak, fearful, incompetent and shy. He is a weak character in mind and in body. In attempt to teach him how to swim his father throws him into a pool but Billy prefers to sink rather than swim, revealing his weak character and mind; he makes no attempt to even try to swim. (43) He is weak in body that he is described as a filthy flamingo. (33) “Saved your life again...Weary said to Billy […] It was absolutely necessary that cruelty be used because Billy would not do anything to save himself. Billy wanted to quit (34).”  Through this quote one can see how weak in mind and body Billy is. Billy did not have enough will power to continue on with the hardships presented to him. He needed a constant force to push him to try and work harder. The novel presents the reader with a weak character with a purpose. This reveals how even the weakest person can eventually face death. 

            The novel is written in a very unique manner. It has no regard for chronological order; there is no linear progression. Everything is presented as a whole. Regardless of the fragmented format Billy Pilgrim's life the book still ends the same way and fulfills its purpose. This reveals that everything is already planned and chronological order has no effect on how things result. In the beginning of the novel the ending is revealed to the reader. “It ends like this: Poo-tee-weet (22) ?”  This shows that regardless of the events that take place, the end of the novel will end the same way. The ending of the novel has been set and nothing can change it. The following quote, “He came slightly unstuck  in time, saw the late movies backwards, then forwards again. It was a movie about American bombers in Second World War and the gallant man who flew it (74).”  proves that the order in which events happen have no influence on the bigger occurrences. No matter how Billy Pilgrim views the movie, the purpose of the movie was to show the war to its viewers.

            The war in the novel symbolizes death and the inevitability of change. Billy Pilgrim had no choice but to go to war. “The bombing of Dresden was a great tragedy none can deny […] ponder on the fate of Dresden, where 135,000 people died as the result of an attack with conventional weapons (93).” This quote shows us a part of the war and the number of casualties from the bombing. This event is something that nobody had the power to change. As much as people disagree with it, it still happened. The war represents the events in life that are inevitable. Despite the efforts that people make, the war was still bound to happen. At first Billy Pilgrim tried to avoid and even escape, but as he time traveled and spent time with the Trafalmadorians he learned that change was inevitable. Billy does not know why there must be such atrocious disaster, but he still makes no objections to it, revealing his acceptance of the things that happen.

            Another symbol in the novel are the horses. “[…] that the horses' mouths were bleeding, gashed by bits, that the horses' hooves were broken, so that every step meant agony, that the horses were insane with thirst. The Americans treated their form of transportation as though it were no more sensitive than a six-cylinder Chevrolet (96).” The horses represent how people embrace fatalism. The horses were in terrible pain from the way they were treated yet they simply fulfilled their purpose as means of transportation. They accepted the pain and the suffering that they were going through. Billy Pilgrim had no idea why the war had to take place; he simply obeyed the commands that he was told just like the horses did what they were ordered to do. Billy learned to accept the war as it was without complaining or questioning it. The same way, the horses simply accepted the pain that they were going through. People must simply accept the circumstances because anything that they do to try to change the events will be useless. 

            The prayer on Montana Widhack's, a mistress of Billy on the Trafalmadorian planet, locket is another example of symbolism. It said the following “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference (102). ” This reveals that people want to have the chance to choose their fate and take control over their lives. Although people want to be able to take control they cannot. Every choice that they make has already been decided for them, it is not a choice, and the choice that people make is just an illusion.

            The phrase “Poo-tee-weet (105)?”  is the last phrase in the book. It symbolizes the end of life, a fate that everyone has. It represents the speechlessness of the people. There is nothing interesting or good to say about war and all negative talk about war is also useless. It will not change anything, because the war has already been destined to happen. “We know how the Universe ends  […] A Trafalmadorian test pilot presses a starter button, and the whole Universe disappears.  […] He has always pressed it, and he always will. We always let him and we always will let him. The moment is structured that way (57).”  The Trafalmadorians know that it is not possible to prevent the destruction of the Universe so they simply allow this course of action to happen. The death of everything is certain so there is no point stopping it from happening. No one can completely understand death. Despite the many encounters with death, Billy still cannot fully understand why it happens. Billy only faces death after he's been in Trafalmadore and learned their philosophy on time and death.

            The death of many characters in the book is ironic. “He […] drafted for military service in the Second World War. His father died in a hunting accident (24).” This passage shows death of Billy Pilgrim's father is ironic, because he is shot during a hunting trip.  His father is the predator during this hunting trip but he ends up dying.  Billy is overcoming the death of a loved one while at war. He has to kill in order to survive but is also hurt by the death of his father. This irony shows that nobody has control of what happens to them. Billy did not have any control over what happened to him and fate took him to war right after his father dies. Another ironic thing that occurs is that Billy Pilgrim survives the war, despite his weakness. Billy survives the war by taking refuge in a meat house. The location in which he takes refuge is a place where killing and death also take place and this is the place where he finds safety. His survival reveals that fate had other things planned for him. He survived the war to tell other people about his adventure in Trafalmadore. Through the ironies in the death of the characters, it is revealed that no one has the ability to change anything. 

            The acceptance of death throughout the book is shown through the phrase “so it goes” This phrase is mentioned after every death in the story. “There used to be a dog Spot, but he died. So it goes (32).”  “There were hundreds of corpse mines operating by and by.  […] But then the bodies rotted and liquefied, and the stink was like roses and mustard gas. So it goes (105).”  These two passage show the all the deaths in the novel were considered equal, whether it was a natural death, an accidental or an intentional death. This phrase allows the reader to accept the death as something unavoidable and as something normal. At the same time though the repetition of the phrase allows the reader to see all the death that occurs and the inevitability of death. 

            Through Billy Pilgrim and his experience in the war and in Trafalmadore the reader can see that everything in life has been predestined and one must accept the fact that nothing can be changed. Since everything has been predestined, then death is simply another part of life. Billy Pilgrim comes to realize this which is why he is at peace. He faces death and makes no attempt to change it. Once a person realizes that they can do nothing to change the events that are to happen, they will also be able to accept death much more easily.

Grammar 17/20  

Intro 10/10

Body 10/10

Conclusion 10/10

Analysis 33/35

Critical Thinking 15/15

95.  

SSR Reading: Page Count

Aguilera Brown: 179
Cabrera Gonzalez: 1065
Chihan Caballero: 780
Chung: 644
Enns: 190
Kim Han: 453
Kim Kim: 991
Kwak, Joo Hye: 484
Kwak, Joo Young: 996
Lee, T: 0
Lee, Haeun: 707
Lee, Lidia: 1204
Sosa Coronel: 1788
Su Tai: 1040
Volpe Von Horoch: 1100

Journal 23: The Civil War

Answer all of the following questions:

Why was slavery such a big issue?  Why did Lincoln decide to go to war?  What were a few things you learned from the packet?  Give one or two quotes and explain them.

3/4 page due on Wednesday.

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Journal 22: The Divine Purpose of Slavery Packet

How has the legitimacy of Christianity and the Bible been used to promote paternalistic attitudes towards slaves and the divine purpose of slavery?  Give at least 3 quotes from the packet to support your reasoning. 1 page journal.