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. 

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.

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

• Unjust death shines a light on the inequity of life
• Traumatic situations can force one to grow up
• The unfairness of life attacks everyone
• Responsibility of an event can be concentrated and diffused at the same time.

• D&M and TTTC
  • These texts both talk about war and the effects it has on people - soldiers, prisoners, citizens, etc.
• D&M and Langston Hughes
  • These texts talk about the oppression that minorities face while using poetic syntax in order to convey these serious issues.
• D&M and Beloved
  • Both of these books tackle the issues of resurfacing memory and trauma, seeing how the trauma of a serious event can still affect how one acts, even if it was years later.
• D&M and COADF
  • Delbo and García Márquez portray the characters and people they don't want the readers to like with negative and gross syntax while describing other characters with more religious and angelic diction.  They try to control how the readers will feel about a character based on the wording.

• With a lot of the countries feeling uneasy and being on the brink of wars, along with civil rights becoming a hot topic again, looking back to see how things used to work and how these sorts of events have affected people in the past, we can see how it will effect us now.

The Boys Have Grown Literary Analysis

Pastiche

Motif Project

End of Unit Discussion Notes

~Sky/Weather

~Animals

~Awakening/Sleep

~Crime and Destruction

Themes:

~The importance of looking back to your past to understand your present self

~Understanding of the real world can help the understanding of an imaginative world

Line of Inquiry:

~How does the self-discovery of the authors cause the readers to discover more about life?

~How does creativity and imagination impact one’s view of the real world?

Hot Socratic

Guided Literary Analysis #1

Guided Literary Analysis #2

Close Read Analysis #1

Close Read Analysis #2

Close Read Analysis #3

Close Read Analysis #4

Lost sense of self

Effects of societal values

Eye motifs

Impacting children

Forced and losses community

Loss of control

Desperate attempts

Manipulation and the changing of perspectives

Quotes:

2.2 Socratic Prep and Reflection

Close Reading Analysis

3.1 Guided Literary Analysis

Motif Group Project - Acting

Duffy Poetry - Skewed view of relationships (romantic, platonic, and familial) due to either party members’ actions

The Stranger - When life has motivation, but lacks action, then life is pointless

SCASI Organizer

~ I can see myself using these short stories for Paper 2. I enjoyed reading all of the short stories and there is a variety of themes in them, which makes it easy to use and manipulate for Paper 2.

~ The best work to pair these with would be The Stranger, as the ideas of absurdity, horrific things happening and there being casual to no care, and a lack of control in life would connect well together.

~ This is memorable to me because it’s the ending of the short story “Barn Burning”. The title is in the quote and it showcases a sense of obsession.

~ “She fell asleep against me. She felt as soft and as light as a kitten” (49).

~ This is memorable because of the stark contrast of the narrator’s wife’s actions to this moment. It feels sweet, but she had just robbed a McDonalds

~ “I painted pictures in my mind of all the cruel things I wanted to do to it” (155).

~ The narrator is using her imagination as a self-defense tactic, but she’s still considered to be cruel and horrible for it.