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Readers, Writers, and Texts

1. How does the structure or style of a literary text affect meaning? Morrison's use of both verse and stream of consciousness capture people minds because of the them form of modern literature. The use of Biblical allusions and symbolism help create an atmosphere that is full of drama. Beloved is meant to be more the telling of a life and not just a novel.

Time and Space

1. How important is cultural or historical context to the production and reception of a literary text? The historical context is important to note especially when looking at the larger events in the novel. The cultural context also refers to a particular ‘way of life’ which involves the inclusion of religion and race. It can also be seen through the flashbacks provided in the novel. Context was extremely important to include in Beloved.

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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.
Chapter 28

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What were some global issues you explored in Hughes' poetry?
Some issues were inequality, trauma, and the effects of slavery.

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

We study literature to explore different stories and examine texts and excerpts. We do this by picking apart the text and analyzing the importance of it and how the literary devices strengthen the text. Studying TTTC helps further our knowledge on literary skills and the truth about war.

2. How are we affected by literary texts in various ways? How are we impacted by TTTC?
Literary texts can spark more emotions and a better understanding of empathy for others since these texts can help teach others to see things from different perspectives. TTTC is very impactful because of the sympathy that can can be directed towards certain situations, and the readers also learn more about the reality of war and the harsh and traumatic experiences it has.

3. In what ways is meaning constructed, negotiated, expressed and interpreted in TTTC?
Literary devices helped construct, negotiate, express, and interpret the text since it helps explain the authors ideas and it strengthens the writing in TTTC. It supports the bond between the reader and the characters and it also assists in painting a better picture of the scene.

4. How does the structure of style of TTTC affect its meaning?
The structure has an informal style which makes the text more personal since it is written similar to the way the men talked in the war. This makes it seem more like the telling of a story and this makes the audience feel more welcomed and apart of the story.

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Directions and Resources:

Ideas:

Texts:

Reflections:

Questions:

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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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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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Extract 3 (From “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”)

"You just don't know," she said. "You hide in this little fortress, behind wire and sandbags, and you don't know

Sometimes I want to eat this place. The whole country

—the dirt, the death—I just want to eat it and have

it there inside me. That's how I feel. It's like this appetite. I 5

get scared sometimes—lots of times— but it's not bad. You

know? I feel close to myself. When I'm out there at night,

I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving,

my skin and my fingernails, everything, it's like I'm full of

electricity and I'm glowing in the dark—I'm on fire almost 10

—I'm burning away into nothing—but it doesn't matter be-

cause I know exactly who I am. You can't feel like that any-

where else."

All this was said without drama, as if to herself, her

voice slow and impassive. She was not trying to persuade. 15

For a few moments she looked at Mark Fossie, who seemed

to shrink away, then she turned and moved back into the

gloom.

There was nothing to be done.

Rat took Fossie's arm, helped him up, and led him out- 20

side. In the darkness there was that weird tribal music,

which seemed to come from the earth itself, from the deep

rain forest, and a woman's voice rising up in a language be-

yond translation.

Mark Fossie stood rigid. 25

"Do something," he whispered. "I can't just let her go like

that."

Rat listened for a time, then shook his head.

"Man, you must be deaf. She's already gone."

Rat Kiley stopped there, almost in mid sentence, which 30

drove Mitchell Sanders crazy.

"What next?" he said.

"Next?"

"The girl. What happened to her?"

Rat made a small, tired motion with his shoulders. "Hard 35

to tell for sure. Maybe three, four days later I got orders to report

here to Alpha Company. Jumped the first chopper out, that's

the last I ever seen of the place. Mary Anne, too."

Mitchell Sanders stared at him.

"You can't do that." 40

(O’Brien 106-107)

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Some Global issues are how gender norms are forced onto everyone, how trauma overs comes innocence, and societal expectations.

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Reflection
How did you do during the Harkness discussions?
I did pretty well since when I talked I voiced my view and I would add onto what others were saying while including the global claim and its importance while also analyzing literary devices throughout the excerpt.
Notes
Ideas discussed I want to remember: I would like to remember that that not only did we focus on the forced gender norms for women being feminine but also for how men must be masculine.

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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
Reflection: The book was very captivating and I enjoyed reading it.

Vietnam Slides

Reflection: I was very interested in learning about the background, causes, and effects of the Vietnam War during this assignment.

On the Rainy River" Analysis Paragraph
Reflection: Examining the choices and how they helped aid in revealing O'Brien's purpose helped further my understanding of the text.

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

Humans read to captivate themselves into a different reality this expands imagination and knowledge about the good and the bad. Imagination is stirred while reading stories since the reader can transport themselves into the scene they just read. They can live the life of one of the characters or they can just watch from a distance either way their imagination increases due to the exposure to different ideas. They also are exposed to both the protagonist and the antagonist which introduces the bad and the good. Reading can help decipher what the difference is and how to apply that into their own life when meeting others. Writing is another way humans stay captivated because writing can help when reflecting on what has happened and how something could go about. Writing is also a way of communication which is very important for everyone since it brings people together and makes them feel connected which brings attention to how we still write to others to communicate whether that be on paper or electronically. Personally, I read to stay entertained and solve situations so since I like mysteries I will try to solve the mystery provided in the book, and if I read something that involves romance I am going to try to figure out which character is going to end up with this character or that character. Reading is also interesting and fun since it places you in a new life and you get to live that life for a little while and if you want to experience that again all you have to do is reread the book. The imagination that surges through me when I am reading a book I'm truly captivated by is insane since I will start to imagine the character and their life and anything that could've been different and I will create a new version of the story on my own. I write to reassure myself, to communicate with others, to organize my thoughts , and even to speak my emotions. Writing is very important to me since I love to communicate with others whether that be through a text or a call, or on a piece of paper or even on a birthday card. It can help reassure me that everything is ok because writing helps me take a breath when things are stressful since I can write on paper or in my phone at anytime about how I feel which can take the weight of emotions off of my shoulders. Writing also helps me organize my mind since my mind is very busy most of the time so I've learned that writing my thoughts and ideas and so ons on little sticky notes and putting those up helps me remember to do something, it keeps me on a schedule which makes for good time management most of the time, and in general it helps my mind feel less stressed, packed, and distracted. In conclusion, reading and writing stories of all sorts are important to our daily life. Stories are everywhere. Little things you tell your friends and family, the things you tell yourself or even a pet, the things you read from a book or from online they're all stories both small and big and all different in their own way. Reading and writing is important since they share these stories whether that be the story just being between yourself and a friend or between you and the world.

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Areas of Exploration

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?Context is very important because it adds to the background / significance of the text. Providing cultural or historical context can make the literary text be perceived  differently because of the new information that goes along with the text which makes the reader relate extract to the context. This relates to the reading because when context was provided then the literary work was looked at differently then when other works that did not have any context. It provided a better understanding of the work and it made the audience  understand  how to properly focus on how to analysis the poem with the context.

2. How do we approach literary texts from different times and cultures to our own?
Most of the time literary texts that written in a different makes the audience  focus more closely ion the meaning and purpose of the text. This relates to reading Hughes work because when reading the provided poems it was clear on how the reader would closely analysis the purpose behind the literary text. Paying closer attention to the details and differences was important because it also provided different ways of talking and different meaning to certain things which makes the reader focus on the changes and why they were significant and why Hughes might have used that instead of something different.

3. To what extent do literary texts offer insight into another culture?
Literary texts can provide more information on different times, experiences, and cultures. This causes Hughes audience to pay close attention to why this culture is important and what the purpose of including a culture into the text was. This relates to reading Hughes literary texts because when information about a culture was provided the reader would analysis the importance of including this particular information.

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

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

3. How does language represent social distinctions and identities?

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Extract from "Hope for Harlem" lines 1-40

There’s a new skyline in Harlem,

It’s tall and proud and fine.

At night its walls are gleaming

Where a thousand windows shine.

There’s a new skyline in Harlem

That belongs to you and me

As the dark old ugly houses

Tumble into memory-

Memory of those dingy stairs,

Memory of my helpless prayers,

Memory of the landlord’s stares

When you asked him for a few repairs.

Now there’s a new skyline in Harlem.

It’s rising tall and free-

And if it keeps on rising

There’ll be a brand new me.

Don’t you know it makes a difference

When you got a clean new house?

I used to hear those old rats gnawing

Now I don’t even hear a mouse.

I used climb those old steps,

Up dark old creaking stairs-

And sometimes I said a cuss word

Before I said my prayers.

But there’s a new skyline in Harlem,

And I’m thankful when I pray

That the yard is bigger than a park,

And kids have a chance to play.

That the walls are painted pretty,

And the bathroom has a shower-

For folks who never thought they’d live

In a house that’s got a tower.

A stone to throw

Or a stone to build with?

A brick for a brickbat

Or a brick for a wall?

Stones are better

For building,

Bricks are better

For a wall.

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Some Global issues were gaining equality/freedom, America isn't what it seems to be, false promises, and the challenges people of color face.

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Reflection
How did you do during the Harkness discussions? What feedback did you receive?
I did pretty good during the Harkness discussions and some feedback I got was to slow down, find different words to explain and say something, and to connect more to the extract.

Notes
Ideas discussed in Harkness I want to remember:
The difficulties that people of color face on the daily and to connect more to the extract during the discussions .

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What connections can you make between some of Hughes' poems?
That most of the poem focus on wanting to be seen as equals and gaining/ wanting equality and freedom.

How does Hughes' poems connect to other works we've read?
That challenges can hold people back from their potential and put them in the middle of a complex conflict.

How does Hughes' poetry connect to our world today?
People of color still face challenges because of their skin color, people are still having to fight for their rights and to be seen as equals.

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Hughes Writing Portfolio Week 1

Hughes Writing Portfolio Week 2

Hughes Pastiche

IO Outline Form

Hughes' Written Assignment

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What insights did the poetry of Langston Hughes offer about the African-American community in Harlem?
That they were hopeful for new opportunities and that they were happy that they had gotten a little bit closer to being seen/treated as equals.

How does art reflect the community from which it comes?
Art acts as a reflection because of how it can capture the past which is very important to people of color because remembering where they had come from and how far they had gotten had been very important to staying hopeful.

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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 about honor and societal expectations are extremely important. Maintaining honor is one of the most important things in the culture and not upholding the expectations of marianismo and machismo can make you an outcast to society.

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Group IOs

Final IO extracts

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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.
How honor and pride drives the ethics, morals, and values of a society, how societal norms, including machismo, effect freedom of expression, marianismo can force women to conform to high standards, which people of a community are responsible for controlling the nature of others' fate?, and death.

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Notes

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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.
This novel connects to TTTC through the trauma and coping mechanisms. For example, while processing the situation after a traumatic experience the character stay silent for a while or they try to distract themselves. It also connects to Beloved because of the similarities in the stream of consciousness.

How does Chronicle connect to our world today?
It relates to societal norms and expectations as of today. This is because the relation to society wanting women to be innocent and pure while men have to be seen as strong can their violence is excused.

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Group IO PPT
Best Quick Write
Final/Revised IO
Artistic One-Pager:

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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?
The audience is affected because emotions that come along when reading about the situations and events people had to experience. It makes rethink how grateful they are for what they have and it reminds people to live life to the fullest. I was affected by the book because I was so upset that people had to experience such trauma and torture. It also made me sad because it was so disappointing to realize the amount of dehumanization and desensitization everyone in the camps experienced.

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Final IO
Extracts from Kami (1):

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Kami Export - Samantha Salkeld - Charlotte Delbo Days and Memory

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Extracts from Kami (2):

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Kami Export - Samantha Salkeld - Charlotte Delbo _One Day_

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Extracts from Kami (3):

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Kami Export - Samantha Salkeld - Charlotte Delbo _The Dummies_

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Extracts from Kami (5):

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Kami Export - Samantha Salkeld - The Farewell

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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.

Some global issues include power dynamics, power, coping mechanisms with trauma, desensitization, and death.

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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.
This novel connects to Beloved through power dynamics, and to TTTC through trauma and coping mechanisms. This also connects to how Coadf because of death and violence.

How does Auschwitz connect to our world today?
The coercive power dynamic evident in the novel can relate to people in high positions in today's society.

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Notes

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Arrivals and Departures quick record
Olere/Delbo quick record

Final Delbo IO

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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?
"Classic" literary text is important because it helps express the artistic quality in the text. It is literary because it depicts real events that were experienced.

Time and Space
What insight did Persepolis give you into Iranian life during and after the revolution?
It provided me with information from someone who experienced the situation itself which allowed me to learn about new occasions, events, and about the reality.

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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.
Some global issues includes religion, sexuality, and power.

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Notes 1
Notes 2

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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.
This novel connects to Beloved through the topic of sexuality and struggle with finding identity. It also relates to Auschwitz and After through religious matters.

How does Persepolis connect to our world today?
It relates to today through the fact that people in high positions still abuse their power.

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Hexagonal Harkness Slides
Hexagonal Harkness Notes

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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.
This novel connects to some of Hughes poems by the similarity of how slavery has permanently  impacted peoples lives/ways of life. Another connection can be made with trauma or shared trauma with the novel The Things They Carried. The flashbacks provided a look into memories which shows how some of the characters might be stuck on that memory because of a traumatic experience or event.

How does Beloved connect to our world today?
The novel can connect through trauma, because of majority of people having at least one experience that is hard to think back too, moral ambiguity, because sometimes we are still placed in situations where we don't know if the things we have to do or have done is wrong or right, and even the effects of inequality, because minorities are still not treated with equality.

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Denver One-Pager

IO Outline Form

Optional Mastery Opportunity Essay

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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 questioning of masculinity and femininity in the novel led to gender being discussed throughout the chapters, while power was included through the introduction to people such as the schoolteacher, the slavecatcher, and even Mr. and Mrs.Garner because of how they were placed in higher rankings than other characters such as Sethe, Halle, Sixo, and Baby Suggs. the way the novel was written provided the audience with an outstanding look into multiple characters ideas, thoughts, and views on situations and experiences. The structure and style also make it easier on the reader to figure who's point of view is the current focus and when it changes to other point of view. It also allows the reader to pin point who the character is faster as the novel goes on because of the way the character talks, thinks, or even just expresses themself.

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Learner Portfolio End of Work Data Form