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Readers, Writers, Texts
1. Why and how do we study literature? Why do we study TTTC?

We analyze and study literature in order to see different perceptions people have and even make our own perceptions. We study TTTC because there are lots of aspects of the novel that go deeper than first look and it really gets the reader's brain to think about what parts of the story symbolize and mean.

2. How are we affected by literary texts in various ways? How are we impacted by TTTC?
We are affected by literary texts because some texts make reader's see the writings in a different way and it helps them make their own interpretations. Readers get a look into how others perceive things, widening their knowledge of how others feel and experience certain things. Personally, TTTC has impacted me because it gives a look into how the war affected peoples minds during the war and what their experiences made them feel.

3. In what ways is meaning constructed, negotiated, expressed and interpreted in TTTC?
In TTTC meaning is contructed, negotiated, expressed, and interpreted through the use of the author's style. O'brien uses elongated sentences in order to convey that the war is a long and ongoing process. He uses lots of symbolism throughout the text in order to convey the meaning.

4. How does the structure of style of TTTC affect its meaning?
The structure of style affects the meaning of TTTC by telling his stories as if he is telling a past friend, almost like catching up, in order to give that affect that what he is saying is the truth of what he experienced and felt. He has a deep emotional tone at times which truly shows the affects that the burdens they had carried really changed them.

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

He stepped back and shot it through the right front knee.

The animal did not make a sound. It went down hard, then

got up again, and Rat took careful aim and shot off an ear.

He shot it in the hindquarters and in the little hump at its 5

back. He shot it twice in the flanks. It wasn't to kill; it was

to hurt. He put the rifle muzzle up against the mouth and

shot the mouth away. Nobody said much. The whole pla-

toon stood there watching, feeling all kinds of things, but

there wasn't a great deal of pity for the baby water buffalo. 10

Curt Lemon was dead. Rat Kiley had lost his best friend in

the world. Later in the week he would write a long personal

letter to the guy's sister, who would not write back, but for

now it was a question of pain. He shot off the tail. He shot

away chunks of meat below the ribs. All around us there was 15

the smell of smoke and filth and deep greenery, and the eve-

ning was humid and very hot. Rat went to automatic. He

shot randomly, almost casually, quick little spurts in the

belly and butt. Then he reloaded, squatted down, and shot

it in the left front knee. Again the animal fell hard and tried 20

to get up, but this time it couldn't quite make it. It wob-

bled and went down sideways. Rat shot it in the nose.

He bent forward and whispered something, as if talking to a pet,

then he shot it in the throat. All the while the baby buffalo

was silent, or almost silent, just a light bubbling sound where 25

the nose had been. It lay very still. Nothing moved except

the eyes, which were enormous, the pupils shiny black and

dumb.

Rat Kiley was crying. He tried to say something, but then

cradled his rifle and went off by himself. 30

The rest of us stood in a ragged circle around the baby

buffalo. For a time no one spoke. We had witnessed some-

thing essential, something brand-new and profound, a piece

of the world so startling there was not yet a name for it.

Somebody kicked the baby buffalo. 35

It was still alive, though just barely, just in the eyes.

"Amazing," Dave Jensen said. "My whole life, I never seen

anything like it."

"Never?"

"Not hardly. Not once." 40

(O’Brien 75-76)

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Brainstorm some global issues developed from TTTC.
1) Gender roles
2) Mental Illnesses
3) Contradicting morals

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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.

It gives insight on how Columbian culture was a bit more centered around machismo and marianismo socially back then and how important honor is to their culture.

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Attach the 8 extracts from the Group IOs that you annotated here.

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Attach the two extracts you used for your Final IO here

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Attach any other extracts you might want to use for your real IO.

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-morality is subjective and does not mean that people are following it
-depends on the definition of the religion
-morality is more of a byproduct than the main focus of what religion is. Some view religion as practices while others view as faith
- In concept, it might work to establish morality but in reality, it is not going to work out (not everyone will practice it)

Pedro said “killed him openly, but we are innocent” - Before God and men thing, honor influences church and government, and methods in forgiving ppl, distorts view on what is morally correct

57 - “duty,” not something they want to do, it’s something they have to do, that was passed from Angela to them as she failed maintaining her honor

inning with this chapter?

Admitted to killing, a sin, but they're preaching their innocence, trying to dismiss it as not a sin

People try to justify their immoral actions with societal norms rather than what's truly ethical

Parallels to instance when that person was gutting the rabbits, she kind of said “yeah i did that, but its just normal,” doing something kind of gruesome but brushed it off bc it’s something that should be seen as normal

When Angela prays to commit suicide, suicide is a sin, societal pressures had gotten to her so badly she believd that even the wrong choice was a good one

The town is so focused on collective culture and ability to distance themselves from one another and not be involved in other people's business that they’d rather let a innocent person die than helping or warning him

Everyone knows how important machismo/marianismo is, at some point they felt that it was inevitable, they can sense another person’s insecurity, the twins had their insecurities very displayed

The person who was engaged to one of the brothers encouraged it, she wouldn’t have married him if they hadn’t gone through with the murder, valued machismo over anything else

Most people thought they weren’t serious, yet they kept watching the twins to see if it would, shows how they toxic the town is

Everybody assumed why wouldn't Santiago know, why wouldn't someone else have already warned him, they might not even go through with it, no sense of community

56 - irony of using bishop as an example of someone who would care, when bishop doesn't care abt town at all, reflects how they don't really care either

Butchers didn't take responsibility either, didn’t try to stop them, they ever questioned the twins

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Reflection
How did you do during the Harkness discussions?
I believe I did pretty well for those being my first harkness discussions! I can definitely improve upon my language and deepen my analysis, but I was proud of myself for talking with my peers in an educational and informative way and being able to build off their ideas.

Notes
Ideas discussed I want to remember:  "Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong" " language be-

yond translation." Fossie could not understand her because she does not fit the norms that he believed in. Baby buffalo represents the soldiers youth and/the war itself.
"On the Rainy River" O'brien's self-contradicting thoughts of his morals. Syntax found in the extract "How to Tell a True War Story".

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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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Summer Assignment (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18XC-FMjxcySYGtRxTuRe2CPlur01SEPqLvrcyobLUak/edit#slide=id.p)
I have much to improve on this year and I'm glad to have been provided exactly what I can do to better my writing!

Global Issue Harkness Prep Form (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dDbJ8SYD0jXK2BlcN4HkHQ8NHAJ-jBYn0d7bq_vJxOQ/edit)

"On the Rainy River" Discussion Board Post
In “On the Rainy River”, O’brien implies that the war was not where he should be and that he was “too good for the war”, hinting that only bad people should go war, thus life can throw curve balls at anyone, no matter how good they are. O’brien described himself as “Too smart, too compassionate, too everything”, therefore creating his own superiority complex to make himself feel better. He was in denial that his life had turned for the worst, away from his dreams, believing that soldiers were anything but what he was. Through the repetition of “too” he is inferring that he is much more than a soldier, and because of this, he does not deserve to be thrown into the dangers of war. According to O’brien, his drafting was “A mistake, maybe —a foul-up in paperwork”, purely an error within his life’s plan. By using a long dash, a pause in his speech, reader’s can assume that he is in disbelief of what his life has come to, trying to come up with excuses/reasons of why this happened to such a good guy like himself. Even though O’brien had been so good all his life, growing into a person that is “too good”, his drafting shows that it does not matter how good one is sometimes, life can switch up very fast and sometimes it cannot be helped

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Why do humans read and write stories? Why do you read and write stories?  Write about a paragraph.
Humans read and write in order to express themselves, gain knowledge, and receive more of an understanding of others. I enjoy reading because it is a getaway from reality, to inform myself, and also to express my emotions the best I can. When I read I feel sort of a connection to the writer because sometimes that is how they reveal their true emotions.

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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 important is cultural or historical context to the production and reception of a literary text? It is very important because slavery and how Black people were/are treated is the basis of a vast majority of Hughes' poems.

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? Literary texts can offer insight into how another culture lives and gives readers better understanding of what a certain culture may be like, but the texts cannot give the readers a way to fully understand because they never can/will fully understand.

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? Language is was used a lot of the time to express how white people treated Black people and different slurs and connotations form these social distinctions and identities.

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Attach your 40 line extract you used for you Mock IO as well as any other 40 line extracts you might want to use for your real IO in the future.
Excerpt from “A New Song” (Begins 11 lines into the poem and ends 8 lines before the end)

Bitter was the day, I say,

When the lyncher's rope

Hung about my neck,

And the fire scorched my feet,

And the oppressors had no pity, 5

And only in the sorrow songs

Relief was found.

That day is past.

I know full well now

Only my own hands, 10

Dark as the earth,

Can make my earth-dark body free.

O, thieves, exploiters, killers,

No longer shall you say

With arrogant eyes and scornful lips: 15

“You are my servant,

Black man—

I, the free!”

That day is past—

For now, 20

In many mouths—

Dark mouths where red tongues burn

And white teeth gleam—

New words are formed,

Bitter

With the past 25

But sweet

With the dream.

Tense,

Unyielding,

Strong and sure, 30

They sweep the earth—

Revolt! Arise!

The Black

And White World

Shall be one! 35

The Worker's World!

The past is done!

A new dream flames

Against the

Sun! 40

Demonstration

Did you ever walk into a firehouse

With the water turned up full blast

Did you ever walk toward police guns

When each step might be your last?

Did you ever stand up in the face of snarling dogs 5

And not move as the dogs came?

Did you ever feel the tear gas burn

Your day, your night, your dawn?

Your dawn

When the water’s a rainbow hue,                        10

Your dawn

When the guns are no longer aimed at you,

Your dawn

When the cops forget their jails,

Your dawn 15

When the police dogs wag their tails,

Your dawn

When the tear-gas canisters are dry,

Your dawn

When you own the star in the sky, 20

Your dawn

When the atom bomb is yours—

Your dawn

When you have the keys to all doors—

Your dawn 25

Will you ever forget your dawn?

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What were some global issues you explored in Hughes' poetry?
Racism and Segregation
The lasting effects of slavery
Police Brutality and Protest

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Reflection
How did you do during the Harkness discussions? What feedback did you receive?
I think I did pretty well on most of them, it is just that I need to organize what I say more and go deeper into my analysis.
Notes
Ideas discussed in Harkness I want to remember: The north star is a symbol of hope and striving towards freedom, also like a safe haven/paradise.

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What connections can you make between some of Hughes' poems?
He uses they symbol of hands a lot, the north star, and rhetorically questioning his white audience.
How does Hughes' poems connect to other works we've read?
He uses lots of symbolism in order for readers to understand or interpret his writing, like many other poets.
How does Hughes' poetry connect to our world today?
A lot of his work connects to the world today because of how much society has not changed. History is repeating itself a bit so his work still applies.

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Hughes Writing Portfolio Week 1
(Link Here)

Hughes Writing Portfolio Week 2 (Link Here)

Hughes Pastiche (Link Here)

IO Outline Form (Link Here)

Hughes' Written Assignment (Link Here)

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What insights did the poetry of Langston Hughes offer about the African-American community in Harlem?
That it was slowly progressing, but the speaker's family was not in the progressive part, and it shows that it hurts to leave family behind. It showed how hard it was and what it was like to live in Harlem.

How does art reflect the community from which it comes?
Art is truly expressive, so art from every community will look a bit different from others because it shows someone's identity and sometimes identity is formed from your environment.

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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.

It is shown that there are different points of views of the characters throughout the text and the use of analepsis and prolepsis gives readers a first hand view into what had happened in the past.

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.

In this book, it is essential for there to be an abundance of historical context or else the readers will not truly understand the overarching meaning of the text.

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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/1IPg6IV6ss3m03yOcGZzRJLR3THt-etjMRmx-gQQyUqo/edit)

The day Stamp Paid saw the two backs through the window and

then hurried down the steps, he believed the undecipherable language

clamoring around the house was the mumbling of the black and

angry dead. Very few had died in bed, like Baby Suggs, and none

that he knew of, including Baby, had lived a livable life. Even the 5

educated colored: the long-school people, the doctors, the teachers,

the paper-writers and businessmen had a hard row to hoe. In addition

to having to use their heads to get ahead, they had the weight of the

whole race sitting there. You needed two heads for that. Whitepeople

believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a 10

jungle. Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping

snakes, red gums ready for their sweet white blood. In a way, he

thought, they were right. The more coloredpeople spent their strength

trying to convince them how gentle they were, how clever and loving,

how human, the more they used themselves up to persuade whites 15

of something Negroes believed could not be questioned, the deeper

and more tangled the jungle grew inside. But it wasn’t the jungle

blacks brought with them to this place from the other (livable) place.

It was the jungle whitefolks planted in them. And it grew. It spread.

In, through and after life, it spread, until it invaded the whites who 20

had made it. Touched them every one. Changed and altered them.

Made them bloody, silly, worse than even they wanted to be, so

scared were they of the jungle they had made. The screaming baboon

lived under their own white skin; the red gums were their own.

Meantime, the secret spread of this new kind of whitefolks’ jungle 25

was hidden, silent, except once in a while when you could hear its

mumbling in places like 124.

look into Norman Bowker extract or Kurt Lemon dying, showing the trauma that the soldiers went through.

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Attach your Google Slide and notes for your Hexagonal Harkness here.
I was not present for that day:(

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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.
Psychological trauma from soul damaging environments resulting in the blurring of ethical and unethical actions.

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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. Like many texts that we have read, Beloved includes psychological trauma, community, mental illnesses, hardships, and like TTTC they both talk about the past and present and how their trauma effected them now and then.

How does Beloved connect to our world today?

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Denver or Paul D One-Pager (Link Here)

IO Outline Form (Link Here)

Optional Mastery Opportunity Essay (Link Here)

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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)? The novel addresses these issues by reader's being able to see the stories that the woman have been through and how they overcome and move on from the past. Sometimes we get to see the thoughts of the woman and by seeing the differences between the way they speak and how they talk about their feelings, readers can truly see the unspeakable thoughts of the women. Whether they blatantly say what they are saying or use intricate literary devices and techniques, readers see the thoughts that cannot be said.

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What were some global issues you explored in Chronicle? Consider honor, morality, perspective, fate, gender norms etc. The more detailed you are, the more useful this will be for your IO.
machismo and marianismo
bystanders
societal expectations
environment
imagination

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Group IO PPT (Link Here)

Best Quick Write (Link Here)

Artistic One-Pager (Link Here)

Final/Revised IO (Link Here)

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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.
It pairs well with other works we have read, one could talk about societal expectations between the characters Tim O'brien in TTTC and Angela Vicario. One could also look into environments with Beloved and CoaDF
How does Chronicle connect to our world today?
The bystander effect has not gone away and of course honor and fate play a huge role in our daily lives.

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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?
This memoir really showed me how important it is for people to tell their stories. Having people "Try to look. Try to see" presents how important it is to try to see how it was for those imprisoned during the holocaust. If people do not tell us their stories, if they do not tell us how they felt, then we would never even remotely known how terrible this period was and maybe we may have not even been to feel the same empathy.

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Attach the extracts you annotated (Some are on Kami) during our Harkness discussions.

(link 1)
(link 2)
(link 3)

Attach the two extracts you used for your Final IO here.

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Attach any other extracts you might want to use for your real IO.

"Sunday"
"Evening"
"Weiter"
"The Tulip"

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What were some global issues you explored in Auschwitz and After? Consider the Hexagonal Harkness we had and some of the global issues you came up with during that discussion.
imagination
environment
memory
oppressed and oppressors
power
hierarchy

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Attach any of your Harkness notes here.
(link 1)
(link 2)

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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 think environment wise, it connects in a way with TTTC. They were both almost completely different environments, but both caused immense amounts of suffering and both changed their inhabitants. We could also relate this book to Beloved because of the trauma and pain characters suffered through and the memories they all tried to repress.
How does Auschwitz connect to our world today?
Auschwitz connects to our world today because we as student learn a lot about this time and we learn to have sympathy for those who went through these times and we learn to never let an event like that take place again. The holocaust has changed the world, a horrific and painful tragedy that should have never happened.

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Upload your favorite Quick Record (Arrivals and Departures, Olere/Delbo, or Using Language)
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Upload your Final Delbo IO
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Attach your dialectical journal here
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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?
The definition of literary is "concerning the writing, study, or content of literature, especially of the kind valued for quality of form". Satrapi utilizes her artwork in her graphic to speak messages that cannot be spoken through words, spreading a literary message through a different form than words. She pairs her art along with her words in order to display her messages and meaning.

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

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

-pg.3
-pg. 37
-pg.54
-pg. 102
-pg. 194
pg. 245
pg. 281

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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. forgiveness is the product of justice
2. art is an act of rebellion
3. the loss of adolescence is the result of trauma
4. loss of cultural identity due to migration

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Attach any of your Harkness notes here.

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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.

I believe Satrapi's work Persepolis could connect to all the other works that we have read this year. Specifically, this book could connect to the hypocrisy in

How does Persepolis connect to our world today?
We as the human race still face many of the hardships Satrapi faced. Races still face racial discrimination, war, hypocrisy, and loss of cultural identity.

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Book Summaries