ELAALRL2 The student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of theme in a work of American literature and provides evidence from the work to support understanding.
1. the them of is American Literature, and i would notice it if i saw it. the reader see's what he or she is reading and takes supporting sentences to understand what they are reading. How would i kno it if i saw it while reading? after i read the sentence that i couldnt understand there would be clues around the sentence to help me understand it.
2.The Romantics believed there were higher truths than reason and logic, and they felt this could be accomplished by listening to one’s heart, or using one’s imagination to reach better places than where they were physically.
Example: in the story Rip Van Winkle i saw elf's and he discribes them (
On entering the amphitheatre, new objects of wonder presented
themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking
personages playing at nine-pins. They were dressed in quaint outlandish
fashion; some wore short doublets, others jerkins, with long knives in their
belts, and most of them had enormous breeches, of similar style with that
of the guide’s. Their visages, too, were peculiar; one had a large head,
broad face, and small piggish eyes; the face of another seemed to consist
entirely of nose, and was surmounted by a white sugar-loaf hat, set off
with a little red cock’s tail. They all had beards, of various shapes and
colors. There was one who seemed to be the commander. He was a stout
old gentleman, with a weather-beaten countenance; he wore a laced
doublet, broad belt and hanger, high-crowned hat and feather, red
stockings, and high-heeled shoes, with roses in them. The whole group
reminded Rip of the figures in an old Flemish painting, in the parlor of
Dominie Van Schaick, the village parson, and which had been brought
over from Holland at the time of the settlement.)
-i used this example because its gives you an idea of what using your imagination can convey romatic ideas.
Many people around the world thought Americans were unsophisticated and stupid, and the Rationalists tried very hard to prove that this was unfair and untrue. Romantics, on the other hand, told stories of ordinary people, like Rip Van Winkle or Natty Bumppo who were unsophisticated and were able to rise to the level of hero
Example:
If left to himself, he would have
whistled life away in perfect contentment; but his wife kept continually
dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was
bringing on his family.
-him being lazy shows that he never tried to do anything with his life, so it made him seem unsophisticated.
Romantics also focused on nature in their writing since they thought it was a way to escape from the loud city, as well as a way to hear ones intuition.
Example:As they ascended, Rip every now and then heard long
rolling peals, like distant thunder, that seemed to issue out of a deep
ravine, or rather cleft, between lofty rocks, toward which their rugged path
conducted. He paused for an instant, but supposing it to be the muttering of
one of those transient thunder-showers which often take place in the
mountain heights, he proceeded. Passing through the ravine, they came to
a hollow, like a small amphitheatre, surrounded by perpendicular
precipices, over the brinks of which impending trees shot their branches,
so that you only caught glimpses of the azure sky, and the bright evening
cloud.
-in this paragragh it describes his look on nature as he passed through the woods near the mountains, and it made it sound beautiful in his point of view.
3. imagination was used in the poem in the stanza: of the last bitter hours come like a blight over thy spirit, and sad images of the agony,...
- i used this because you have to use your imagination when the sky is talking to you.
celebration of nature: yet few days, and thee the all-beholding sun shall see no more in all his course:...
-i used this because it describes nature in a beautiful way.
promotion of common people: thou shalt lie down with patriachs of the infant world--with kings, the powerful of the earth....
- i used this stanza because it talks about how when you die you will be up on a higher posts with kings, and how you will no longer be a common person.
ELAALRL1 The student demonstrates comprehension by identifying evidence (i.e., examples of diction, imagery, point of view, figurative language, symbolism, plot events and main ideas) in a variety of texts representative of different genres (i.e., poetry, prose [short story, novel, essay, editorial, biography], and drama) and using this evidence as the basis for interpretation.
-when i read Rip Van Winkle i had to use this standard because he used alot of imaginary in the story while discribing the elfs.
ELAALRL2 The student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of theme in a work of American literature and provides evidence from the work to support understanding.
-everything that i have read so far has to do with american literature so this standard is always used.
ELAALRL3 The student deepens understanding of literary works by relating them to their contemporary context or historical background, as well as to works from other time periods.
-when i read Ben Franklins story it had to do with this standard.
"Nature"
5.my interpretations of the story is that he is saying that everyone needs to get away sometimes and the best way to get away from the world is to go into the world of nature, and he is telling the truth beacause when i was pregnant when i get mad and hormons start to kick i use to go take a walk to calm myself down. i think that this story was good but hard to understand. to reflect apon your self and actions you have to take a break from your routines and let nature take its course.
6. it was a good example of how the transcendentalist thought, and how nature can calm a person god made nature so if you were having a problem and you go out into the nature go will speak to you and calm you down. when he shines the sunlight upon you he is talking to you.
Example: The sun illuminates on the eye of man, but shines into the eye and the heart of a child.(Emerson pg 191)
"Self-Reliance"
5. I liked the story, i think that it talks about how everyone has a voice in there heads that tell them what to do. Not everyone follows and understands the voice, sometimes they ignor it. it remindes me of church and how when the preacher is giving the word sometimes everyone cant understand what he is interpreting so they ignor it.
6.this story pertains to how people should be alert on god talking to them and understanding what is being said, and if he says anything that is important then they should let everyone know and not be ashamed of being called "Wrong."
Example: These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world......(Emerson pg 194)
7. this video pertains to transcnedentalism because he worked and made a living in the wilderness of nature for thirty years, and he also went on the mountain and he was talking bout how if he fell he would go straight to god.
example:The Transcendentalists were Romantics who adopted philosophies from many other places and cultures. They believed that the individual human mind was one of the most powerful instruments in the world, and that the individual mind was connected to all others through what was known as the "oversoul", a collection of everyone's soul that we all share.
