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Readers, Writers, Texts
How are we affected by Delbo's memoir and her imperative for us to "Try to look. Try to see"? How were you affected by Auschwitz and After?

We are affected by Delbo's memoir in a way in which her narrative recount of the concentration camp is left unforgotten. To "Try to look. Try to see," we are forced and reminded that we must look beyond and understand the situation for ourselves in order to grasp the extensive and importance of certain issues that exist within the world. Personally, I have always understood this idea of Auschwitz and World War II as having been a serious occurrence, but when this idea has been further brought to life from Delbo's authorial choices brought a deeper understanding and appreciation towards those who have suffered through the inhumane tortures of Auschwitz.

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Time and Space

1. How does Chronicle offer insight into Columbian culture? Consider what we've learned about with machismo, marianismo, honor and the impact of colonialism.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold offers insight into Columbian culture by providing readers the understanding of how important maintaining societal expectations are throughout the story due to the emphasis placed upon Machismo and Marianismo. Much of the story revolves around these two concepts of maintaining these standards in order to be acknowledged within the society.

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How does Auschwitz connect to other works we've read? Be detailed in how it connects with global issues and thematic and stylistic ideas to other works.

I feel like Auschwitz connects to Tori Morrison's Beloved as both addresses the issue of allowing the existence of repressive/oppressive institutions within society. Through this idea, both Morrison and Delbo captures the existing issues of injustices and inequality within our society,

How does Auschwitz connect to our world today?

Auschwitz connects to our world today as many countries still possess issues regarding equality amongst the people. Not only that, I feel as though acts similar to that of the Jews and the Nazis are still existing within the world but through varying forms that many people are unable to identify/are willing to acknowledge as an unjust issue within society.

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How does Chronicle connect to other works we've read? Be detailed in how it connects with global issues and thematic and stylistic ideas to other works.

Chronicle relates to the other works we've read as it addresses the harms of toxic masculinity upon an individual. This idea is shown through The Things They Carried when people are unable to express their struggles due to having to maintain the societal expectation of being a masculine individual who is incapable of feeling emotions that can contradict the idea of masculinity for a man.

How does Chronicle connect to our world today?

Chronicle connects to our world today as many men still struggle with toxic masculinity. With the typical and conservative perspective of how men are supposed to act within society, many men still struggle with this idea as to how they should present themselves in order to not defy the societal norm of being an abnormal or non-masculine man.

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Readers, Writers, and Texts

1. How does the structure or style of a literary text affect meaning? Consider how Morrison's stream-of-consciousness, shifting points of view, and use of analepsis and prolepsis impact the meaning of the novel.

Through Morrison's use of the structure and style within Beloved, readers are further immersed within her writing. Readers can develop opinions and understand the perspective of the narrative. With Morrison's use of the stream on consciousness, obtaining the perspective of characters within the story further develops their characteristics  and complexities.

Time and Space

1. How important is cultural or historical context to the production and reception of a literary text? Consider the story of Margaret Garner, the Fugitive Slave Act, and other historical and cultural phenomena and how that has impacted the creation and reception of Beloved.

It is important for cultural and historical content to applied to the production of literary texts because it is futile to accurately depict history. Spreading misinformation creates ignorance of what has occurred in the past, and it is futile for the tragedies of slavery and Margaret Gardner's case never happens again.

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Time and Space
Choose 3 out of these 6 questions to answer and reflect on how it relates to our reading and understanding of Hughes' work.

1. How do we approach literary texts from different times and cultures to our own?

We approach literary texts from different times and cultures by obtaining an understanding of the historical situation of the time. With this understanding, we can have a more personal relationship with the text.

1. How does the meaning and impact of a literary text change over time?

The meaning and impact of a literary text can change over time as social changes can occur, altering and developing different perspectives and opinions towards history.

1. How do literary texts reflect, represent or form a part of cultural practices?

Literary texts often represents the experiences of the writers during that time, allowing readers to obtain their perspectives and experiences.

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Readers, Writers, Texts
1. Why and how do we study literature? Why do we study TTTC?
We study literature in order to widen our knowledge of the world, and how/what it may have been like to experience certain things. In modern day, we don't have the ability to simply experience things, but with literature, the author is capable of taking readers into the world they're trying to depict.

2. How are we affected by literary texts in various ways? How are we impacted by TTTC?
Personally, I feel as though TTTC impacted my outlook towards the world. It brought in the perspective of life in a war where you don't know if you'd experience another tomorrow or today.

3. In what ways is meaning constructed, negotiated, expressed and interpreted in TTTC?
O'Brien's TTTC utilizes various rhetorical choices to create ambiguous images to portray the different emotions he experienced before, during, and after the war.

4. How does the structure of style of TTTC affect its meaning?
Through his own perspective, O'Brien creates the story of TTTC that allows readers to understand and personally experience what the Vietnam War may have been like.

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1. Readers, Writers, Texts

1. Why and how do we study literature?

2. How are we affected by literary texts in various ways?

3. In what ways is meaning constructed, negotiated, expressed and interpreted?

4. How does language use vary among literary forms?

5. How does the structure or style of a literary text affect meaning?

6. How do literary texts offer insights and challenges?

2. Time and Space

1. How important is cultural or historical context to the production and reception of a literary text?

2. How do we approach literary texts from different times and cultures to our own?

3. To what extent do literary texts offer insight into another culture?

4. How does the meaning and impact of a literary text change over time?

5. How do literary texts reflect, represent or form a part of cultural practices?

6. How does language represent social distinctions and identities?

3. Intertextuality

1. How do literary texts adhere to and deviate from conventions associated with literary forms?

2. How do conventions and systems of reference evolve over time?

3. In what ways can diverse literary texts share points of similarity?

4. How valid is the notion of a “classic” literary text?

5. How can literary texts offer multiple perspectives of a single issue, topic or theme?

6. In what ways can comparison and interpretation be transformative?

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Attach your two 40 lined extracts you used for your Mock IO as well as any other 40 line extracts you might want to use for your real IO in the future.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nfSfJN4tmfZ1sE9agflpW-Iodkx5_5ciB3FGDnQQsrg/edit?usp=sharing

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8 Annotated Extracts

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Let America Be America Again
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HsDk6bT6h2ikypXiK_e-nYUVeTPj4nY1UMtztzPuEsA/edit?usp=sharing

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Annotated Extracts
Extracts Used for IO

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Attach some 40 line extracts you have analyzed and may want to use for your IO.

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1. Culture, Identity, and Community

1. family, class, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender and sexuality, and the way these impact on individuals and societies. migration, colonialism and nationalism.

2. Beliefs, Values and Education

1.  beliefs and values nurtured in particular societies and the ways they shape individuals, communities and educational systems. They might also explore the tensions that arise when there are conflicts of beliefs and values, and ethics.

3. Politics, Power, and Justice

1.  explore aspects of rights and responsibilities, the workings and structures of governments and institutions. They might also investigate hierarchies of power, the distribution of wealth and resources, the limits of justice and the law, equality and inequality, human rights, and peace and conflict

4. Art, Creativity, and the Imagination

1.  explore aspects of aesthetic inspiration, creation, craft, and beauty. They might also focus on the shaping and challenging of perceptions through art, and the function, value and effects of art in society.

5. Science, technology and the environment

1.  explore the relationship between humans and the environment and the implications of technology and media for society. They might also consider the idea of scientific development and progress.

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What were some global issues you explored in Beloved? Consider memory, trauma, importance of community, etc. The more detailed you are, the more useful this will be for your IO.

Negative Impact of Institutions

Community Relationships

Effects of Trauma

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Group IO Global Issues

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Matters of equality are overlooked within a corrupt capitalist society.

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Culture, Identity, and Community
Beliefs, Values, and Education
Politics, Power, and Justice
Art, Creativity, and Imagination

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Brainstorm some global issues developed from TTTC.
Societal Standards?

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Attach your Google Slide and notes for your Hexagonal Harkness here.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eK-cKPb1b8oqwJkZDOANle-Z5fXfl6IwOYDM6ES_uMo/edit?usp=sharing

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Reflection
How did you do during the Harkness discussions? What feedback did you receive?

During the Harkness discussions I attempted to initiate conversations about certain aspects of the texts. Some feedback I received is to further my analysis and connect it from other people's perspectives.

Notes
Ideas discussed in Harkness I want to remember:

N/A (can not remember)

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Reflection
How did you do during the Harkness discussions?
ON THE RAINY RIVER: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WNfVtNtd-mO7GE0DQmDf5wASDx86eOUGc6Ph-CbYhRM/edit?usp=sharing

Notes
Ideas discussed I want to remember:
ON THE RAINY RIVER: could be depression/mental health?
SWEETHEAR OF THE SONG TRA BONG: could be ignorance?

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How does TTTC connect to other works we've read?

How does TTTC connect to our world today?

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How does Beloved connect to other works we've read? Be detailed in how it connects with global issues and thematic and stylistic ideas to other works.
Beloved connects to the other works we've read by acknowledging the minorities within society. Within both The Things They Carried and Langston Hughes, the works acknowledge those within society who lack a voice.
How does Beloved connect to our world today?
With movements like Black Lives Matter, Beloved further intensifies the importance within those movements. Despite Beloved depicting a time equivalent to 100 years ago, it showcases the lack of change within society towards existent problems that are prevalent today.

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Connections

What connections can you make between some of Hughes' poems?

Hughes' poem often revolve around the issue of racism and prejudice within the United States of America.

How does Hughes' poems connect to other works we've read?

Hughes' poems connect with Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried through

How does Hughes' poetry connect to our world today?

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Summer Assignment
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11fABviJpCQPnaZ9ch4_CD352uDWLcMFB-GdZ9w1NOfg/edit?usp=sharing

Reflection
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17HCGXzeggyOGEc_Sf-qX4vhoLE96zrEBmoyP4KUJVUs/edit?usp=sharing
Vietnam Slides (Link Here)
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BB2queLrp3gCw4lHEyC7oKNH9zeaOD29h-8fqj78_VE/edit?usp=sharing
"On the Rainy River" Analysis Paragraph (Link Here)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XIc11NCl9HDe2t13Jq2TG6UitebjnaczExPTs84utY4/edit?usp=sharing

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Denver or Paul D One-Pager (Link Here)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XK8u9sZXqXVk-4Q2yS1-nub_zcCvd_CCGD-yOrJp0uA/edit?usp=sharing
IO Outline Form (Link Here)

Optional Mastery Opportunity Essay (Link Here)
N/A

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Group IO PPT
Best QuickWrite
Artistic One-Pager
Final/Revised IO

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Assessments and Reflections

Hughes Writing Portfolio Week 1
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oeQEJ0KlVziQXiu8dtaic3PY_-1bcKRYUfwmosfNyLE/edit?usp=sharing
Hughes Writing Portfolio Week 2
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pLc6y-rhl07XoVjMIC5EgZSe1VXS797GV4aT52woX78/edit?usp=sharing
Hughes Pastiche (Link Here)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zPlBNPulpEzSfnSacK9nbyk7cVVI8wHWQ7OMQGy3-3s/edit?usp=sharing
IO Outline Form (Link Here)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19q-CbGS61aLNx0U06-HRDvxR6IWFHXZJMHypBcyEGQo/edit?usp=sharing
Hughes' Written Assignment (Link Here)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eJSB_NplBlMFrT0F4zCvf80EbOZ80_UZTdDr8Oe_P7g/edit?usp=sharing

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Best Quick Record
Final IO

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Why do humans read and write stories? Why do you read and write stories?  Write about a paragraph.

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Linda Krumholz claims (in "The Ghosts of Slavery: Historical Recovery in Toni Morrison’s Beloved") that finding a voice for the thoughts and experiences of women is central to the "healing," historical recovery theme and structure of the book. According to Krumholz, Morrison’s novel "adapts techniques from modernist novels, such as the fragmentation of the plot and shifting narrative voice, to compel the reader to actively construct an interpretive framework" (109). How does the novel specifically address issues of gender, writing and power? How does the structure and style of the novel give voice to "the thoughts of the women of 124, unspeakable thoughts, unspoken" (Beloved 199)?

Beloved addresses issues of gender, writing, and power, through the perspective of the characters. Since the novel revolves around the narratives of Sethe, Denver, and Beloved, their perspective provides insight of their situation and their outlook. For Sethe, she was a slave who endured through hardships under relentless slave owners and other slaves. She defies her role as a slave by simultaneously defying her role as a woman. Although her means were extreme, she displayed her feelings through her actions.

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What insights did the poetry of Langston Hughes offer about the African-American community in Harlem?
Langston Hughes displayed unity within his poetry amongst the African American community in Harlem. They may be deemed as equals with one another, but in actuality there was a massive gap between them and white people.
How does art reflect the community from which it comes?
Art reflects inside emotions from the originated community, it conveys feelings in ways in which words cannot understand.

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Dialectical Journal

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Intertextuality
How valid is the notion of a "classic" literary text? What makes Persepolis "literary" even though it is a graphic novel?

Many believe that a "classic" literary text relies within the contents of the book itself in which it makes it remarkable literature. Although Persepolis is a graphic novel, it still carries the impacts and techniques that many other "classic" literary texts replicate. The beauty within Persepolis is the manner at which issues and techniques are conveyed throughout the graphic novel.

Time and Space
What insight did Persepolis give you into Iranian life during and after the revolution?

Persepolis provided me a more person insight into Iranian life during and after the revolution. I had this blindsided misconception towards Iran in being a country that possesses hate and war and had categorized many of the citizens beneath that ignorant label. With the graphic novel, Marjane Satrapi has taught me how important it is to consider the alternative perspectives and craft my own judgment appropriate to each significant situation rather than believing a face value impression.

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Attach the panels you found most fascinating and that  you discussed during our final Harkness here

The Key
The Trip
Harkness Panel/Notes

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What were some global issues you explored in Persepolis? Consider the Harkness discussion and other ideas that came up during class discussion.

1. Preconceived beliefs and ideas of an individual can lead to bigotry and prejudice
2. The Importance of Education upon the Younger Generation
3. Investigating the impact of an oppressive government regime upon society

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Attach any of your Harkness notes here.

Harkness Notes

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How does Persepolis connect to other works we've read? Be detailed in how it connects with global issues and thematic and stylistic ideas to other works.

As Persepolis focuses on the state of Iran during the Iranian Revolution,  I feel as though Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried would be a good book in correlation with Persepolis to address a global issue of how an environment of war or an oppressive government can impact society through the explicit use of language and imagery to address such images.

How does Persepolis connect to our world today?

I feel Persepolis connects to our world today as now more than ever we have become more divided. Many individuals struggle with categorizing others based on stereotypes and judgements, and have allowed these ideas to control their impressions and thoughts and opinion of others to control them. With the state of Iran having digressed, I feel as though that it is important to remember to not allow these preconceived beliefs control me.

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Directions and Resources:

Ideas:

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Reflections:

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Data Forms