English 10 Honors

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11. Reflection -What went right? What went wrong? What can you do differently? What can I do differently? My Efforts Group Process Learning environment Your Efforts

16. Wednesday, May 12 th Existentialism found in the story Examples from the story

22. Describe the symbolism of light and dark as it relates to existentialism Topic sentence E Topic sentence D Topic sentence C Topic sentence B Topic sentence A The symbolism of light and dark reveals the existentialists concern with an individual’s feelings of isolation. Thesis

23. The symbolism of light and dark reveals the existentialists concern with an individual’s feelings of isolation. Analysis Existentialism and story Analysis Existentialism Example Lead in sentence Topic sentence A

28. A Lost Generation? Understand the widespread disillusionment with prewar institutions, authorities, and values that resulted in a void that was later filled by totalitarians. Discuss the influence of World War I on literature, art, and intellectual life in the West (e.g., Pablo Picasso, the "lost generation" of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway).

48. What words would you use to describe how people are seeing the world and their place in it?

55. Fitzgerald · Hemingway I. Introduction II. F. Scott Fitzgerald III. Ernest Hemingway exit

63. 3. A brief introduction to his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is the best novel of Fitzgerald. As a novel with strong tragic flavor, it keeps in step with the time and its criticism of America society is really penetrating. The novel shows the disillusion of “American Dream” in the 1920s. At that age, it was impossible for Gatsby to succeed. The novel also shows that in the American society of 1920s, the commons were in total depravity. It tells us that there is no way to go from money to love, from material to spirit. In a split world, love could neither make up the split nor replace the value. It is full of realistic meaning even today. exit

64. The clues of the novel are very clear, while the specific events are mysterious. In it, we can fully enjoy the glamour of art. In addition, the novel is intensely lyrical. With colorful musical elements, the author composed a tragic song, leaving a lot of questions for us to think about. 4. The Jazz Age What repeats frequently in the majority of his books describes the period from 1918-1929, the years between the end of World War I and the start of the Roaring Twenties; ending with the rise of the Great Depression, the traditional values of this age saw great decline while the American exit

65. stock market soared. The focus of the elements of this age, in some contrast with the Roaring Twenties, in historical and cultural studies, are somewhat different, with a greater emphasis on all Modernism. The age takes its name from jazz music, which saw a tremendous surge in popularity among many segments of society. Among the prominent concerns and trends of the period are the public embrace of technological developments (typically seen as progress)—cars, air travel and the telephone—as well as new modernist trends in social behavior, the arts, and culture. Central developments included Art Deco design and architecture. In addition, many amateur artists began to aspire including Duke Ellington, Picasso, etc. exit

67. c. During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer’s disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). d. Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), finally brought him onto the stage of the Nobel Prize in 1954. exit

69. 4. Hemingway’s hero----code hero Hemingway’s hero is an average man of decidedly masculine tastes, sensitive and intelligent, a man of action, and one of few words. That is an individualist keeping emotions under control, stoic and self-disciplined in a dreadful place. These people are usually spiritual strong, people of certain skills, and most of them encounter death many times. exit

71. John Steinbeck In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, Growing heavy for the vintage. ~John Steinbeck

72. Steinbeck Country The John Steinbeck Center is located in Salinas, CA. Steinbeck left Salinas after the publication of The Grapes Of Wrath. He did not return permanently until his death .

73. The Grapes of Wrath THE EPIC STORY OF THE JOAD FAMILY'S MIGRATION FROM THE OKLAHOMA DUST BOWL TO THE PROMISED LAND OF CALIFORNIA

74. Of Mice and Men Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place…. With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us. ~George Milton

75. Historical Background Pathways to information about the historical background of the novel Of Mice and Men. Online Sources John Steinbeck Literary Traveler - explores Steinbeck's life Center for Steinbeck Study - biography Dust Bowl The Drought - PBS Mass Exodus from the Plains - PBS Surviving the Dust Bowl - an eyewitness account Dust Bowl

76. Historical Background II The Great Depression The Great Depression - main causes The Great Depression - This web page is for the purpose of comparing and contrasting cohorts involving their views of the Great Depression and the effects of it on their growing experience. American Memory The Great Depression ; great for photos The Great Depression - PBS The Great Depression California Gold Rush Sutter's Account of the Discovery of Gold About the Gold Rush - excellent site from PBS The Women - excerpts of diaries

77. And this I believe: that the free exploring mind of the indvidual human Is the most valuable thing in all the world. And this I would Fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, Undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or Government which limits or destroys the individual. ~ John Steinbeck from: East of Eden

78. As I lay Dying by William Faulkner

95. Faulkner Journal #1 WRITE in stream of consciousness—just don’t use your own consciousness. Topic : The school year so far. Or your own topic.

96. Perhaps write as one of these people:

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