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- 301: The Outsiders
- ... The aims of this unit are to look at what the teacher directs the student's learning towards. 1) Developing student's ability in understanding language and language issues through the areas of - everyday communication - personal expression - literature - media 2) Students must read the set novel by S.E Hinton 3) Students must view the set movie. 4) Students must complete 3 pieces of assessment (Explain in detail later) p.10 5) Recognise and understand relevant themes introduced by the unit of work. 6) Encourage development in creative and analytical writing. 7) Encourage small group work and peer encouragement. 8) Develop English language proficiency across the unit enabling them to develop listening and speaking by - role play - dramatised reading - participation in group/class/individual discussion - share personal writing - analyse visual representative of the novel - analyse and compare visual to written text - analyse and compare to other texts of relevant themes - encourage reading and writing effectively and clearly in a wide range ...
- 302: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... African American drama (Lyons IX). Zora's career began at an early age of eight years old. Her wild imagination sprung to life with inspiration from her mother, Lucy. Her father's disapproval of her writing sparked an even greater sense of rebellion in her youth, which led to her pioneering efforts as an African American woman (Lyons 1-4). Her first job was not as a writer, as many would ... including: Jonah's Gourd Vine, Mules and Men, and Their Eyes Were Watching God (Lyons 14). Though her success was unequaled in the realm of African American writers, she herself had one rejection in her writing. She wrote Mrs. Doctor, in 1945, but it was rejected from Lippincott Publishing. The end of her literary career was marked by her travels to British Honduras, where she researched black communities in Central America ... a woman who learns to know and trust herself," but also a sense of community and self-reliance in her individual (Magill 571). The main character, Janie, as the reader comes to know from a personal perspective, mimics the life of Zora Neale Hurston. Janie Crawford of Eatonville, Florida, portrays the image of Zora Neale Hurston in her middle age. This is clearly depicted by Janie's self-satisfaction with ...
- 303: Book Report A Voyager Out
- ... a friend. His response to her was that she was wasting many of her good stories that could be published on a letter. Her response was to write him a six-page letter. She loved writing. She also loved her voyages to Africa. Part of Mary Kingsley s reason for loving her travel abroad came from her childhood life. Mary was born the daughter of a high-class man and his ... trips overseas and partook in many heroic adventures. He would write home to his family about his adventures and this caused his mother great grief. Because of the grief this caused Mary Bailey, George stopped writing of his heroics to her, and instead wrote of them to his daughter. Mary Kingsley had to become a self-sufficient person. With her mother being bedridden and her father being overseas, Mary grew up ... head to toe. Part of this was out of mourning. After a while, however, the black clothes became accustomed to her. The hardest part of her parent s death was having to sort through their personal things. She had to go through their old letters and personal papers and decide which things to keep and which things to throw away. While sorting through her parent s belongings, she found her ...
- 304: Biography and History: Harriet Jacob's The Life of a Slave Girl
- ... the sexual aspect of being a slave-girl. Her task is difficult, because in order for the reader to really understand her position as a woman and a slave, she must make the story extremely personal. If it is too personal, however, the reader looses sight of the bigger picture, and does not relate all these hardships to the condition of the general female slave. She accomplishes this in two ways, through her writing style, and the writing content. The style that the novel is written varies from a dialogue to a narrative, depending on the subject matter being written about. For example, the dialogue where Mrs. Flint ...
- 305: Alice Walker
- ... disfigurement that isolated her as a child. This is where her feminine point of view first emerged in a household where girls were forced to do the domestic chores unaided by the brothers. Throughout her writing career, Alice Walker has been involved in the black movement and displays strong feelings towards the respect black women get. In 1961, Walker entered Spelman College, where she joined the Civil Rights Movement. Two years ... According to Herbert Mitgang of the New York Times, "She also knew that the question of race was really just the first question on a long list"(1983). Much of Walkers writings are very personal. For example, one of her first books once was written during a time in which she was pregnant and suicidal and it described how she had an abortion and dealt with all of its after effects. Unlike many other authors, she is not afraid to write about very personal experiences she has had. Since the beginning of her writing career, she has written sixteen books, including five novels, several collections of essays, short stories, childrens books, and poems. Charles Truehearth of The ...
- 306: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... African American drama (Lyons IX). Zora's career began at an early age of eight years old. Her wild imagination sprung to life with inspiration from her mother, Lucy. Her father's disapproval of her writing sparked an even greater sense of rebellion in her youth, which led to her pioneering efforts as an African American woman (Lyons 1-4). Her first job was not as a writer, as many would ... including: Jonah's Gourd Vine, Mules and Men, and Their Eyes Were Watching God (Lyons 14). Though her success was unequaled in the realm of African American writers, she herself had one rejection in her writing. She wrote Mrs. Doctor, in 1945, but it was rejected from Lippincott Publishing. The end of her literary career was marked by her travels to British Honduras, where she researched black communities in Central America ... a woman who learns to know and trust herself," but also a sense of community and self-reliance in her individual (Magill 571). The main character, Janie, as the reader comes to know from a personal perspective, mimics the life of Zora Neale Hurston. Janie Crawford of Eatonville, Florida, portrays the image of Zora Neale Hurston in her middle age. This is clearly depicted by Janie's self-satisfaction with ...
- 307: Alice Walker
- ... disfigurement that isolated her as a child. This is where her feminine point of view first emerged in a household where girls were forced to do the domestic chores unaided by the brothers. Throughout her writing career, Alice Walker has been involved in the black movement and displays strong feelings towards the respect black women get. In 1961, Walker entered Spelman College, where she joined the Civil Rights Movement. Two years ... According to Herbert Mitgang of the New York Times, She also knew that the question of race was really just the first question on a long list (1983). Much of Walker s writings are very personal. For example, one of her first books once was written during a time in which she was pregnant and suicidal and it described how she had an abortion and dealt with all of its after effects. Unlike many other authors, she is not afraid to write about very personal experiences she has had. Since the beginning of her writing career, she has written sixteen books, including five novels, several collections of essays, short stories, children s books, and poems. Charles Truehearth of The ...
- 308: Nathaniel Hawthorne Weaves Dreams into Reality in Much of His 19th Century Prose
- ... and warning them of the penalties of sin, and keeping them from falling into some trap. (Book of Job 33:14-18) Elihu's speech and other similar biblical scripture were part of Hawthorne's personal conceptual beliefs. His foundation consisted of these early Puritanical Christian precepts. These teachings reveal the significance as to the reason he believed dreams to be a reflection of the waking mind and subsequent approaching events ... tendency to project his ideals into his characters by having them dream encourages his readers to recognize God's laws. Julian Hawthorne, son of Nathaniel, recognized and documented his father's utilization of dreams by writing volumes of notes pertaining to many of his short stories. In Julian Hawthorne's, Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife, Volume I, Chapter 9--Notes for Stories and Essays, Julian takes note of the specific injection ... nature. The Puritanistic attitudes were firmly rooted in the communities of his day. These attitudes were regarded with a stern morality, that anything pleasurable or luxuriously indulgent was sinful. He cleverly wove dreams into his writing to expose, without compromising his Christian stature, that hipocracy and sin was rampant in the hostile Puritan environment. It is important to note that Hawthorne could not openly voice his observations of mankind for ...
- 309: Nathaniel Hawthorne Weaves Dreams into Reality in Much of His 19th Century Prose
- ... and warning them of the penalties of sin, and keeping them from falling into some trap. (Book of Job 33:14-18) Elihu's speech and other similar biblical scripture were part of Hawthorne's personal conceptual beliefs. His foundation consisted of these early Puritanical Christian precepts. These teachings reveal the significance as to the reason he believed dreams to be a reflection of the waking mind and subsequent approaching events ... tendency to project his ideals into his characters by having them dream encourages his readers to recognize God's laws. Julian Hawthorne, son of Nathaniel, recognized and documented his father's utilization of dreams by writing volumes of notes pertaining to many of his short stories. In Julian Hawthorne's, Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife, Volume I, Chapter 9--Notes for Stories and Essays, Julian takes note of the specific injection ... nature. The Puritanistic attitudes were firmly rooted in the communities of his day. These attitudes were regarded with a stern morality, that anything pleasurable or luxuriously indulgent was sinful. He cleverly wove dreams into his writing to expose, without compromising his Christian stature, that hipocracy and sin was rampant in the hostile Puritan environment. It is important to note that Hawthorne could not openly voice his observations of mankind for ...
- 310: Writing Well Chapter 1 Respons
- Writing Well, by Donald Hall, is an amazingly interesting textbook. I cannot remember reading an instructional manual with such brilliant imagery, flowing style, and amazing concepts. This is what education should be interesting, provocative, and natural ... Poe s definition of the purpose of a short story: to elicit a single emotional response. Then again, it may elicit a single emotional response: boredom. Fortunately, Chan manages to turn her story around by writing a stellar climax and falling action in paragraphs 7-13. The imagery and raw emotion show the reader the nature of the situation in a way that is unfortunately not demonstrated in the first half of the narrative. It is shocking to me that Hall analyzes his examples this way because his writing is the antithesis of every example that he praises. His writing does contain all of the properties that he praises the two examples for having, but it includes another element a fire, an enthusiasm ...
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