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Grammar: Colons and Semicolons 3/21/12 Colons Semicolons Practice Transcendentalism //From Nature// by Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * Use a colon to introduce a list, but not if the list immediately follows a verb or preposition
 * Ex. The mill includes salad, soup, and desert (can’t use a colon as the nouns follow a verb)
 * Ex. The mill includes the following dishes: salad, soup, and desert
 * Use a colon to introduce material that illustrates, explains, or restates the preceding material
 * Ex. Marvin had mixed feelings about the event: it made him feel sad and happy at the same time.
 * Use a colon to introduce a long or formal quotation (MLA: 4 or more lines)
 * Use a colon between time, chapter/verses, and after salutations in a letter
 * Ex. 3:27
 * Ex. Dear Mrs. Elanko:
 * Use semicolons to separate main clauses that are not joined by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, or, nor, yet, for)
 * Ex. Evelyn is the youngest daughter; and Jane is the oldest
 * Use semicolons to separate main clauses joined by a conjunction, adverb, or by an expression such as //for example//
 * Ex. Ohio has produced several presidents; for example, Harrison, Grant, Hayes, and McKinley
 * Use semicolons to separate a series when the sentence already has a comma
 * Ex. I have lived in Decatur, Alabama; Tuscaloosa, Alabama; and New Orleans, Louisiana
 * Jenny admires the work of the following modern artists Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, and Williem De Kooning.
 * Correct punctuation: Jenny admires the work of the following modern artists: Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, and Williem De Kooning
 * I love to play ice hockey however I do not own much hockey equipment.
 * Correct punctuation: I love to play ice hockey; however, I do not own much hockey equipment
 * The best Beatles albums are //Revolver, the White album//, and //Rubber Soul//
 * Correct punctuation: The best Beatles albums are Revolver, the White album, and Rubber Soul
 * Many Species of worm are marine that is they live in the ocean
 * Correct punctuation: Many Species of worm are marine; that is they live in the ocean
 * After reason of Revolution era literature came the romanticism of the American literary renaissance as the robust idealism and emotion of the new republic and its creed of the “pursuit of happiness” was exhibited by in its literature. Optimism and individuality, values at the core of our nation’s founding beliefs, is very prevalent in romanticism, as are a return to nature and the birth of the horror genre. Individualism conflicts with established Christian religious conceptions of the nature of God as Emerson and other transcendental writer asserted that an omniscient God wouldn’t need a church or a priest to be worshiped.
 * Transcendentalism: belief and inner thinking about the nature of things transcends and defines your perception of reality
 * Humans must seek truth through nature. We don’t appreciate the beauty of the stars because we see them every night; however, we would appreciate the stars if we rarely saw them
 * Nature in the transcendental sense: a poetic idea in the mind; the impression you draw from what is defined as being nature
 * The two people who see nature freshly for all its wonder are children and poets

__10 Jan 2012__ Bellwork Announcements Vocab Check Storytelling: Narratives Equino (68) Hunger Games Media Center
 * sensory details
 * purpose/audience
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Took Vocabulary 1.1 Check Equino Class Discussion -Equino uses heavy sensory details to give the reader a mental picture throughout reading

-When people began involving their religion, the beginning of the idea of abolitionism began to occur Narrative: Conflict (story) Dialogue (Internal/External) 1st Person (I,Me,My) Transported Slaves through the Middle Passage, which went from Africa to North America. Raiders considered the captured Africans as cargo. 2 quotes from Equino's narrative that uses sensory details: Who are Equino's intended audience? Write a quote to support your answer. Hunger Games Discussion- Setting: Character Archeatypes: Symbols of Rebellion:
 * North America-Future~ distopia-controlled perfect society
 * District 12-Coal
 * Capital-Roman
 * Arena-Battle Ground
 * Woods-Safe Haven
 * Katniss-Hero
 * Peeta-Hero/Love Intrest/Rival
 * Haymitch-Sage/Trickster
 * Captial-Villian
 * Careers-Villian (Cato)
 * Effie-Sage/Mentor/Model Figure
 * Gale-Love Intrest/Foil Character to Peeta
 * Woods
 * Careers Pact(Alliance)
 * Berries
 * Cornucopia
 * Mocking Jay
 * Flowers on Rue
 * Bow and Arrow
 * Traps/Land Mines
 * Avox
 * District 13

__11-Jan-2012__ Middle Passage By Robert Hayden

Gods or saints - Jesus,Estrella, Esperanza, Mercry: Slave ship names.

Narrative Poem Format - Journall/2nd person Climax Power and Impact

Allusion - Reference to another work. Tone - The speaker/ another's attitude toward the subject

Ivory - Elephant tusk Tutelary- postion of a sage and a Mentor. Antracite - Coal Imagery - Fever Melting in his bones. Tone for Narrator - Grim, negative, fearful, uncaring towards the slaves.

17-Jan-2012 Middle Passage By Robert Hayden

__Effluvium__- Vapor __Gelid__- Fresh corpse

Word Choice: Jungle hatred Leper's Claw Swift as a Pumba's leap snarling brute apes

"....cannot kill the deep immortal human wish, the timeless will."- freedom

__Cinquez__- The prince; he gave the orders; led the revolt

Audience- U.S.; Protected the slaves Slaves were extraditated Tone- Agravated; Disgust; Loathing; Scared/Fearful Paradox- Contradiction seemingly untrue is actual true

__Primaveral__ Primeval- primative Primate- mammal Prime- years Feral Viaility

The power of the poem comes from the narrator. The narrator is ingorant through the story, but he becomes enlightened.

__18 Jan 2011__ __**Autobiography of Fredrick Douglass, Chapter 10, Part 2.**__
 * Covey -** leased out; hypocracy (they knew it was wrong)


 * Slave mindset - (Douglass)** How does Douglass have a slave mindset? Submissive, instead of fighting back he goes to find his master. His first response was to go straight to his master, rather than fighting back in a physical manner.


 * Thomas Auld -**

Superstiotion
 * Irony** - slave master (C//ovey//) bbeats Douglass

The passage displays enlightenment, Douglass knew he was a slave but he was no longer a "punching bag" expecting him to obey any form of authority
 * //"-It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free. The gratification afforded by the triumph was a full compensation for whatever else might follow, even eath itself. He only can understand the deep satisfaction which I experienced, who has himself repelled by force teh bloody arm of slavery." (p. 4)//**

__19 Jan 2012__
 * Frederick Douglas's bio (covey):**
 * main ideas:
 * portrays harsh conditions of slavery
 * time period when Douglas's mind set went from slave to free
 * important to stand up for himself
 * slavery is evil
 * slavery changes the slave owner as well as the slave
 * the mind and spirit cannot hold conflicting feelings and ideas
 * "turn down the downward path"
 * slaveholders=robbers
 * keeping ignorant
 * lack of reading and writing
 * keeping slave's minds occupied, they were content
 * My Bondage, My Freedom:**
 * 1) main idea:
 * slavery changes people's lives negativel

__**20 January 2012**__

 * "And Ain't I a Woman?"**
 * **Up until 1950's woman were oppressed and not allowed to input their say**
 * Voice/ Tone**
 * **Casual**
 * **questioning**
 * **maternal**
 * **intellectual**
 * **African American/ Slave**
 * Purpose**
 * **Explains that not only are women treated poorly, why isn't she given those luxeries.**
 * **Women are coddled and told they are not "intellectual"**
 * **She is not treated like this, nor is she treated like a man. ain't she a woman.**

24 January 2012
The Crucible Stations

Witch Hunts- Communist Trials Religious Leaders "The people who are not in the mob get trampled."
 * Arthur Miller wrote the play as a parallel between what he went through in the 1950's with the communist trials and the Salem Witch Trials (circa 1600's.)
 * Witch Hunts cause hysteria. Ex. 1980's satanism hysteria.
 * Hysteria causes people to abandon rational thought.
 * Examples of Hysteria
 * Jim Jones, Waco Texas

//The Crucible// Act One
 * Based on what happened. Miller got information from court records, land deeds. He connects the dots.
 * During the Colonies at this time only New England was settled. The rest of the country, the wilderness, is evil. They thought the woods were evil.
 * The Puritans thought they were going to change the world, not by being models, but by imposing their religion
 * __Theocracy__-Law+religion.
 * The puritans have been emotionally supressed. Witch Hunt allowed people to express their anger to their neighbors, they just blame them of using witchcraft.
 * Common Theme- light, abundance of light or lack of light. Light=Life, safety, God, Truth, Providence.
 * Weight-making the right decision.
 * Color-white-(purity)
 * Red-ex. blush, shame/evil
 * Black-dark/evilslaves
 * Repuation/Name-
 * Abigail-17 years old. 'Dissembiling'=lying, deception. Text mentions she is beautiful. So Abigail will probally be trouble.
 * Backstory-Abigail and Betty caught dancing.
 * Accused of witchcraft. Parris is worried about his repuation more than what might actually happen to his daughter.

31 January 2012


 * Act 1 Themes
 * Temperature- John Proctor says that the house is like winter, meaning that the house lacks the warmth of family.
 * Rabbit- The rabbit represents innocence. Innocence has been stripped and sacrificed.
 * Color- Proctor blushes when Abigail passes him in church.
 * Proctor Household Conversation
 * It is strained, quiet, and very formal. As if they are going through the motions of a relationship.
 * Elizabeth tells John he must go to Salem and stop the madness.
 * Mary Warren- Proctor's Maid
 * Appointed to the Court in Salem
 * Allusion to the Bible
 * People part like the Red Sea when Abigail approaches.
 * John Proctor and Abigail's affair
 * Happened seven months before.
 * John admits to it.
 * Conflict of Affair
 * It is important because they will see Abigail everytime they go to Salem.
 * John Proctor still has not forgiven himself.
 * Mary Warren gives doll- Creepy now, creepy then.
 * She believes that Sarah Good was a witch, has her hanged.
 * Sarah Good- beggar, low reputation, has no friends to defend her, pregnant, and smokes a pipe.
 * Lies about knowing the Commandments.
 * Won't be hanged for one year until baby is born.
 * Abigail accuses Elizabeth, although it is dismissed.
 * Elizabeth knows that Abigail is obsessed, psychotic even.
 * Elizabeth tells John that he must make Abigail hate him

Bellwork Vocabulary Check 1.0 Announcements Read from Novels Crucible Act 2 -character development -archeotypes -symbols -themes -SG Questions Curcilble Film Act 2 Study Vocabulary 1.0 (all words)
 * Febuary 1, 2012**
 * Homework**
 * Rebecca Nurse: sweet old lady who was accused of witchcraft
 * John Proctor's 3rd child is not baptized (because Parris became the minister) and has been missing church a lot lately
 * John Proctor help build the church
 * Giles Corey: fool and comic relief; sues people over petty things
 * Martha:
 * "kills pigs" by bewitching them
 * reads books and doesn't want anyone to know
 * Elizabeth's doll is found with a needle in the doll's stomach and Abigail complains of stomach pains and then they find a needle in her stomach

Bellwork Vocab check 1.0 Announcements Choice Novels __The Crucible Act III__ __**Blog #2** Education Seminar- Sir Ken Robinson__ blog:
 * February 2, 2012**
 * The other girls fear Abigail.
 * Abigail uses her knowledge of Proctors secret to keep him quiet.
 * Implied guilt in the court
 * Judges will not listen to substantial evidence from Giles
 * Judges afraid to admit that they have condemned people based on false evidence.
 * Proctor has dangerous information; the court attacks his credibility.
 * Pregnant women won't be hanged
 * __Themes__
 * Cold: "...icy judgement of God..."
 * Nakedness: stripped of pretense, lies revealed
 * __Climax__
 * __Character Development__
 * John Proctor: Finally gets involved with the court; His christianity is questioned
 * School systems aim to turn out 'proffesors'
 * **//acedemic inflation://** Degrees are less valuable
 * Intellect is not as simple as an average assigned to students
 * Main Idea- According to sr. Ken Robinson's seminar on education, intellegence is more than a measurable, numerical value, and now, more than ever, students should seek out their uniquities rather than striving to be proffesors.
 * Writer/psychologist Howard Gardner
 * __Nine Intellegences__
 * 1) Naturalist
 * 2) Musical
 * 3) Logical-Mathematical
 * 4) Existential
 * 5) Interpersonal
 * 6) Bodily-Kinesthetic
 * 7) Linguistic
 * 8) Intra-Personal(self)
 * 9) Spatial(pictures)
 * Chose any two intyellegences that you feel you possess
 * Write a short paragraph on why you feel you have this intellegence
 * End with at least four proffesions you may hold with these intellegences
 * USE 2 VOCAB WORDS
 * consider how the school system is prepping you for the aforementioned careers.

Bellwork Vocab Check 1.0 Announcements AVL search engines Crucible: Finish Film Act3 and 4 SG Questions Read Choice novel
 * Febuary 6, 2012**

Crucible: Act 3 Act 4
 * The Climax- When Elizabeth lied of Proctor not committing adultery even after Proctor confessed
 * This is ironic because Elizabeth meant to help her husband but now she has condemned him as a liar
 * "God is dead" =God is no longer part of their community
 * The peak of the hill of hysteria has passed and people are starting to come to their senses.
 * The court knows that hanging one of the people who have weight and have had a good heart in the past will not go well with the village so they try to make one of them to confess. Martha Corey, Rebecca Nurse, John Proctor are to be hanged
 * The court makes Elizabeth try to make John Proctor to confess so he will not be hanged.
 * Elizabeth asks Proctor to forgive him for being so cold and keeping a cold house
 * Public Penance- Proctor confesses but does not want to give them his name which is all he has left. So he rips up his confession and decides to be hanged as well.

Bellwork Vocab Check 1.0 Announcements Crucible: Themes, archetypes, Guided Question RP: Topic Sheets due Monday, AVL, Library Act IV:
 * February 7, 2012**
 * The Crucible:**
 * Rising sun- time clock for executions
 * Salem might become like Andover, in which the courts were thrown out because of faulty evidence and lies.
 * The society begins to decay because of the mass of people being arrested and killed; creating zombies of kids, cows, and other familes as they do not know what to do.
 * Lies are "damnable"
 * Rev. Hale is a dynamic character
 * The contemplation of Life v. Principle; Proctor faced with this.
 * Marvel- amazement, miracle
 * gibbet= gallows
 * John Proctor is a Christ Figure, in ways of how he lives and dies.

Bellwork Vocab check 1.0 Grammar:Pronouns Announcements The Crucible: Act IV: SG Questions Read Choice Novels Discuss novels. __Homework__
 * February 8, 2012**
 * Public<-->penitence
 * Name- important as reputation.
 * Miracle- Proctor says "I can. And there's your first marvel, that I can." pg.144
 * The sun rises= the truth rises.
 * Study vocab 1.0
 * Blog due tomorrow 8AM.

Bellwork Vocab Test Grammer: Verbals Announcements Vocab List 1.5 The Scarlet Letter
 * February 10, 2012**

Verbals- verbs that function as another part of speech The Scarlet Letter
 * gerund- verb-ing, function as subject and object
 * participles- verb -ed or -ing, function as adjectives
 * infinitives- to + verb. nouns, adj, adv.
 * Starts with hypocrasy of society- sad people, old door
 * plant motif/theme
 * human heart is the seat for all human sins
 * Colors: black, grey, gold, white. Light vs dark. Secret sin. Number 3

__//**13 Feb 2012**//__ Thesis Work: Thesis of introduction- tell reader the topic, graphic reader thesis statement- define topic, list authors/works(identities) state your intent, what you plan to analyze, 3 points. Star Wars is a film by write and director George Lucas. One of the more intriguing character types are the Jedi: people who are a mixture of warrior, monk, and arbiter. Jedi use special weapons, special powers, and the unnatural confessions of good and evil in the galaxy. In thesis statements, define unknown elements that the reader may not be aware of. Use triangle method, box, or circles to help graphically organize your writing. (intro)-(background info)--(thesis) Thesis statement of the Crucible with this topic: The Crucible contains many examples of symbolism, themes and figurative language. Graphically organize to show relationship between intro and thesis. Give background, and brief plot summary to lead in to what you will be talking about in your paper. You are just giving a main idea, not specific names or ideas. Use identitfiers to lead to your focus. Coffee break- watch jedi kittens on youtube. Write introduction to your literary paper. The Fall of the House of Usher and The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe clearly exhibit many complex themes. These works show darkness, symbolism, and tone to express true feeling of the message inside. According to Marriam Webster's Dictionary, darkness means... (give clear definition for reader). Examples of these themes are well planned and conveyed in a natural manner under Poe's guidance.
 * Bellwork
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__**14 Feb. 12**__ **The Scarlet Letter** Scarlet Letter = Pearl -represent shame of the mom black eyes black/dark hair Hester is pretty; she holds herself like a woman Scaffold- public humiliation: torture, hanging Self-respect- dead in our society? Being individual vs. not caring about portraying yourself 3 hours under scorn Countenance- appearance of face He will be known < 3 times
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 * **Study 1.5**
 * **Class record sheets ready for notes**
 * **Romantics**
 * more evil you do, more physical changes you have
 * __**Monitor**__
 * **color**
 * **civilization vs. wilderness**
 * **plants**
 * **hot vs. cold**

__**15 Feb. 2012**__ Bellwork Vocab check Announcements Read from novels Scarlet Letter Homework: Study vocab 1.0
 * literary journal (3 quotes with literary elements and connections)
 * film
 * Chapter 3 & 4
 * literary analysis
 * wiki spaces

Notes: Scarlet Letter-
 * Physican-medicine, savage/hubs (leech, archaic term for doctor)
 * Hester Prynn's child suffers from the many fears,anxiety, and some phobias because of what Hester endured before she gave birth.

__**16 Feb. 2012**__ Bellwork Vocab Check Announcements Writing:Outlines Scarlet Letter Book Clubs

__Outline__ form: I. II. III. There are topic, phrase, and sentence outlines; you must have 2 supporting details to split into another group There must be a parallel structure in the outline, In an outline, you want to avoid plot summaries.
 * A.
 * B.
 * A.
 * 1.
 * 2.
 * B.

__The Scarlet Letter__ __Ch.4__ the only place Dimmesdale and Hester can meet is in the forest Roger Chillingsworth has sold his soul to the devil to gain knowledge Chillingsworth makes a deal with Hester that he wont tell others who Hester is and Hester cant tell who Chillingsworth is Chillingsworth is Hester's husband Chillingsworth is going to look for Pearl's father (Dimmesdale) paramour- lover __Ch.5__ Hester is later freed and lives in the outskirts of Boston; becomes a well-known seamtress no one asked Hester to make a wedding dress though Pearl's dresses were made of the finest clothe Hester sews clothes for the poor to try to earn her name back whenever Hester walked past a priest or when someone new came in the city, she would feel shame

__Ch. 6__ Pearl is about 2-__**3**__ years old in this chapter. Pearl is cursed, made from an adulters affair. The affair between Hester and dimmsdale is so horrific that it brings about a curse upon the kingdom that is known as pearl. Whatever form of sins or evil that the mother does, passes to the child, the child is imbibing her soul. Pearl is the living of scarlet letter, the living emblem of sin, the emblem of evil, or the devils child. Pearl is a child used to constantly remind her parents of their sin.

__Outline__ __Draft__ __Citations__ __The Scarlet Letter__ __Ch. 7 & 8__
 * __22 Feb. 2012__**
 * 12 point font times new roman
 * MLA heading top left
 * 1" margins
 * double spaced
 * COMPLETE SENTENCES
 * avoid plot summarizing
 * avoid "thing"
 * 3rd person only
 * NO CLICHES
 * parenthetical citations
 * don't overdo it
 * paraphrase twice to avoid plajorism
 * Pearl is **__3__** years old
 * Boston officials are holding an unofficial hearing to seize custody of pearl
 * Hester is going to the governor's house to plead her case that she should keep pearl (delivering gloves)
 * Pearl is in an elaborate __**crimson**__ tunic
 * Butler lets her enter because he thinks the **__A__** means hester is important (jedi mind trick)
 * Pearl sees her mom in herself when she looks at the shiny piece of armour
 * When Hester looks in the armour, she sees an exagerated **__A__**
 * Pearl lets out a strange, spooky, __**other-worldly**__ scream and then hides behind a __**rose**__ bush
 * When asked who made her, Pearl says no one made her, but she was plucked from the **__rosebush__** that grew outside of the prison
 * Hester is allowed to keep Pearl anyway
 * Mistress Hibbons asks Hester to come do witchcraft in the woods that night, but because she was allowed to keep Pearl, Hester says no

Feb. 23 SCARLET LETTER QUESTIONS

1. **Describe Dimmesdale and Chillingworth's relationship.** Chillingworth studies Dimmesdale furiously and knows something's wrong with him; he's assigned to live with him to help cure Dimmesdale's mysterious illness. Dimmesdale is his CW's spiritual advisor. They're good friends.

2. **Why was Dimmesdale wasting away?** The guilt of his affair with Hester; trying to repent for what he did with praying, fasting, and vigils (all-night prayers.) He's slowly wasting away.

3. **Describe Chillingworth's medicine.** Experimental; mostly Native American medicine with some English added. Like him, it's a mixture of savage and civilized.

4. **How does Chillingworth's physical appearance change?** He "grows uglier and more evil." Grimy from smoke; darker.

5. **What were some rumors about Chillingworth?** People claim to of seen him before. One said he was in London, and part of a murder case. Another said he practiced witchcraft with the Native Americans and was a part of their Satanic lifestyle. Others say he uses hellfire to fuel his laboratory, was haunted by Satan's demons, or even Satan himself.

__Feb. 24 CHAPTER 10 SCARLET LETTER__ 1. **What metaphor is used to describe the leech investigating Dimmesdale?** One is a miner searching for gold, or a sexton (graveyard keeper) digging for a corpse's treasure. Another is a doctor doing a dissection, or a thief going through a chamber.

2. **Where does Chillingworth find "unsightly plants" and what's his explanation?** On a grave in the graveyard; the herbs were the untold secrets of the dead man. 3. **What is Chillingworth's purpose in this chapter?** He wishes to knows Dimmesdale's secret. 4. **What does Pearl call Chillingworth?** The "Old Black Man," or the Devil. 5. **How does Chillingworth find out Dimmesdale's secret?** Dimmesdale falls asleep in the living room, and Chillingworth comes in and opens Dimmesdale's shirt, and lays his hand on Dimmesdale's heart. Through divination or black magic or some sort of supernatural manipulation, he learns Dimmesdale's secret.

__**01 March Scarlet Letter**__
 * Pearl is a dark curse.
 * Dimmesdale denies Pearl 3 times.
 * A = Angel

__**02 March 2012**__ __The Scarlet Letter__ Ch.12 Hester is beginning to gain her reputation back, so much so that the towns people are beginning to think that the A is for Able, not Adulterer. At first Hester is wearing her down like the commercial hair models making their hair attractive. In this chapter Hester has put her hair up and instead of wearing dresses and more seductive clothing she dresses as everyone else. To be accepted by society, you must dress like them.

bell work vocab check announcements research paper works cited format scarlet letter Ch 15-17 and projects study all1.0 vocab research paper revisions due the 8th of march scarlet letter projects due wednesday bring textbooks to class again
 * 07 March 2012**
 * HOMEWORK**

Use owl.english.purdue.edu to help with MLA formatting and style guide ex. "Blueprint Lays Out Clear Path for Climate Action." //Environmental Defense Fund//. Environmental Defense Fund,8 May 2007. Web. 24 May 2009. **__TAB THIS LINE__** Center title Works Cited not underlined Pearl draws a green A on her dress. Pearl asks about Scarlet letter theme: light runs away from Hester (light does not catch or stay on Hester (sin)) Pearl asks if Hester has ever met the black man (Satan) in the forest to get a letter on her bosom, Pearl know Dimmsdale has met the black man cause he covers his hand over his heart. Dimmesdale- the results of living 7-9 years with sin inside`
 * works cited-** alphabetical order, first line dont tab. all other lines tab, double space all lines
 * SCarlet Letter**
 * Ch 15**
 * Ch 16**

=Scarlet Letter Podcasts:=

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 * Dimmesdale goes through public humiliation inorder to break the curse.
 * Chillingworth = Satin, Satin = Temptor, Chillingworth = Temptor
 * Chillingworth tempts Dimmesdale not to break the curse by going on the scaffold.
 * An "A" was seen on Dimmesdale's heart; not known whether metaphorical or litteral
 * Pearl "looses horns" during third scaffold scene.
 * Pearl acknowledges Dimmesdale as father because Dimmesdale pubically accepts her.
 * When Dimmesdale dies so does Chillingworth because he is a leech
 * When the Scarlet Letter is removed from the story so is Pearl; although it is said that an old lady comes back to live in the same cottage that Hester Prynne used to live in.

__**22 March 2012**__ 1. Our team scored early, but faltered badly during the second half (parallel)

2. Three of the most intelligent primates are the chimpanzee, the orangutan, often orange in color and long-haired, and the baboon. (not parallel)

3. I enjoy texting, reading, and going clubbing. (prallel)

4. Grandpa was the first soldier in Alabama to become a corporal in the army and to win a war medal. (parallel)

//Parallel structure// is the repetition of similar words, phrases and clauses.
 * Parallel Structure**

ex. Annie likes __Khono's optimism__, __Bob's cheerfulness__, and __Jan's helpfulness__. (parallel)

Always highlight clauses & phrases on either side of conjunctions to check for //paralllel structure.//

Inconsistent (unparallel) construction occurs whne the kinds of words, phrases, or clauses change in the middle of the sentence.


 * Romanticism:**
 * Emerson
 * __Self Reliance__ - Rely on yourself not just for physical needs but for the thought. Trust your //own// thought (that's trusting yourself)

__Man + Nature (//Transcendetalism - What's true for you is true//)__ When you open yourself to nature that creates the sublime experience

Envy=Ignorance Imitation=Suicide //Nothing good can come unless you work for it.// //(Something rewarding about hard work - What you create is your reward. If you try to eny others your being short-sided, if you try to imitate you're being dangerous)// Society (machine) gobbles up indiviuals, takes away your manhood (symbol for indiviuality) Society is set up for comformity. People are trained and or raised to follow the system. Society plows out a road for you before you even get there. The tough part is to live in society and maintain your manhood (indiviuality) You can make your own choices but it'll cost you more.

__**Characteristics of Civil Disobedience**__ -Non Violence Protest -Using Knolodge for what you believe in. -Non Compliance -Not standing down -Intelligence/Knoledge -Clear Conscioences -Right vs Wrong -Non Violent
 * 3/28/2012**
 * Life is frittered away by detail**
 * Paradox - I was not as smart as the day i was born.**
 * Knife - Hack away the essence of what you are**
 * Intelligence can take away what you really are.**
 * Nature will introduce herself to you.**
 * Ruts of Conformity**
 * Government is best which gorverns not at all.**
 * If a law is injust, it is not a law.**

Gains: Support Attention Power Sympathy Love is the most common Emotion
 * Attention for your cause.

American Renaissance -culminated with the ideas of Transcendentalism and Idealism -Big transcendentalist include Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Poe -Settings are often dark,gothic i.e.:Mansion, Castle, etc.
 * March 29,2012**

Rolling Stones "Sympathy for the Devil" -JC moment of death/pain -Pontious Pilot sealed JC's fate -St. Petersburg Russian revolt (killed zcar) -Tank--> General Blitzkrieg S.S.Nazi -Kings/Queens wars -JFK & RFK *p*

Devil is everywhere Devil is part of everything

The Devil & Tom Walker miserly- cheap treasure-gold clover-split usurer-loan shark

//**The Devil and Tom Walker**// Purpose: Slave trade is the ultimate evil Moral: Don't get into a deal that seems too good to be true; the devil will get you! Speculation: investment; risk Loans- Collatoral (Have to give something to get a loan) At the end of the story Tom hears 3 knocks and is taken to the swamp by the horse from hell; he was reportedly killed in the swamp. Tom's wealth turns to ashes and wood shavings The money earned is used to get another 'fool' to sell his soul to the devil
 * March 30, 2012**

//**Short Stories**// Formula for good mystery story:
 * Brilliant eccentric
 * Foil (less gifted)
 * Blundering police force
 * Impossible crime

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=April 4, 2012= Vocab 2.2 Definitions Vocab Test Thursday

Suspension of Disbelief- Letting go of your beliefs and knowledge to be able to enjoy a story
=April 3, 2012=
 * A lute- medevil guitar. String instruments=extended metaphor for mental health
 * If a mind is healthy it sounds like an intune guitar, but mental illness is like a guitar out of tune, it happens slowly and cannot get back intune by itself.
 * Tone Words- dull, dark, oppressive, melancholy, dreary, soundless=ominous, and evil
 * Alliteration from dull dark day dreary, literary element
 * Narrator finds reflection of a house (mirrors and reflections=theme)
 * Narrator's mission is to cheer up his childhood friend who lives in the House of Usher
 * House is sitting on ground in the middle of a swamp. tarn=swamp. House has a crack down the middle of it
 * House is equal to the Usher family
 * Meth faces=house of usher

Fall of the House of Usher

 * House of Usher: Haunted house before haunted houses were stereotypes
 * Usher suffering from constitutional, family evil (incest?)
 * Mentally ill people are particular--kinda like OCD (only eat certain foods, can't stray from routine)
 * Usher says he's going to die from fear (scared to death) (Bellwork question)
 * Usher has a sister, if she dies he'll be the last of the Ushers
 * Madeline walks through (creepily, like apparition/ghost) and doesn't even notice narrator, disappears (last glimpse of her alive)
 * Madeline has unknown disease, wasting away (catalepsy)
 * Narrator is there to cheer Usher up in various ways (ex. painting, reading) -- all of these begin to reveal (to everyone except Usher) Usher's madness (to an insane person, bad things sound good, but to a sane person, they sound horrible)
 * "Haunted Palace": Once upon a time there was a happy palace, beautiful, lute music coming from one of 2 windows; however, evil things attack castle: now, palace is ugly, haunted -- lute music becomes discordant (broken, out of tune)
 * Haunted Palace is analogy for brain -- verses I-IV healthy brain, verses V-VI unhealthy brain
 * Usher = artist (painter, musician, poet, etc.)
 * Usher says Madeline died, wants to keep her in a vault temporarily to keep doctors from autopsying the body (also sign of incest?)
 * Usher & Madeline had been twins (learned at temp burial)
 * Since the two are twins, when Madeline dies, Usher begins to worsen (has to die, too)
 * 7-8 days after death: lightning storm (Usher comes to narrator, opens window to storm)
 * When narrator reads story to Usher, all sounds that he describes actually happen in House of Usher
 * This turns out to be Madeline (apparently still alive, her death was apparently an epileptic fit) -- Usher calls narrator madman, says Madeline is behind door
 * Madeline appears, bloody, emaciated (ding), dies for real (from exhaustion) -- gives Usher a heart attack, he dies too
 * When the last Ushers die, the house collapses, sinks into swamp (X-Wing into swamps of Dagobah)

=04 April 2012= Bellwork: Study Vocab 2.2 Write sentence using amicable and obstreporous Minister's Black Veil Anser the following What is Rev. reaction to the vail? Why cant the town talk to him about the vail? REACTION TO MR. POWELLS MASK!!!
 * Hawthorne- Great american writer, many accolades. wrote about guilt and sin
 * Small puritan town in new england (setting)
 * Puritans are simple by nature and deserved punishment, only small few deserve heaven.
 * parable- hawthorne wrote to endow knowledge upon society, not for kick

Tweet this Slight fear

Purpose of Masks State Troopers- to show fear, eyes are the window to the soul. Poker Players- eyes show emotion, and can also improve lying Online Mask (user name)- feel more liberated to say what you want on twitter, blogs, becasue you are @bjp_Merica, not Joe Paschall.


 * Townspeople do not like the mask, start to say things like "is it him?" and they forget what his face really looks like.
 * The mask affects people opinion of the people, no one will play puritan games with him, purely becasue he hid his eyes.
 * Suddenly, becasue of the mask, the pastor becomes a completely different person. The minister even makes the dead corpse shudder at the mask.
 * Fiance is like WTF? but does not leave the minster, just wonders why?
 * He does it because, we all wear masks, we conform to society. we do not show ourselves, he wants us to announce our sins, but we do not, only he acknowledges these sins to society, and Joe.
 * Minister admits to feel lonely behind the veil, and fiance just wants to see his face one more time, he will not allow it, so she leaves.

**5 April 2012**
__Minister's veil notes__
 * Vocab test**
 * Minister's veil**
 * Choice novels**
 * The veil represents sin
 * The veil made Hooper a better preacher
 * People are drawn to sinners. Hooper's struggle is attractive to his congregation.
 * The saddest of all prisons is the heart.
 * Death is the "veil of eternity"
 * Hooper dies and is buried still wearing the veil.
 * Parable
 * Moral: everyone sins, everyone wears masks

Bellwork Vocab check anounce Mellville Moby Dick Share Masks and Blog #3 Homework: Study 2.0
 * 11 April 2012**
 * Pop up Book
 * Summary
 * tone, character


 * Moby Dick (The Pop-Up Book)** by Herman Mellville
 * "call me Ishmael"= Ishmael isn't his name
 * Ishmael is in his rented room when [Quiqueg], his roomate, comes in
 * Quiqueg is a harpooner and prince who must go on adventures before he can be crowned
 * Quiqueg and Ishmael board the Pequod, the ship. Quiqueg wasn't accepted at first because he wasn't a converted Christian. He was a paegan.But was then accepted because he's an amazing harpooner.
 * Captain Ahab doesn't make himself known until the ship has set sail on Christmas morning
 * Even though the crew find whales, Ahab is obsessed with finding this one white whale
 * Quiqueg thinks he's going to die so they make him a coffin and he stays in it for 3 days and then he's fine
 * They find the white whale (Moby Dick) but Moby Dick destroys the Pequod, Quiqueg sacrafices his life and saves Ishamel.
 * Ishmael is the only one who survives.
 * Moby-Dick** by Mellville (the story)
 * The crew is on the ship, the Pequod with Native American tribe and the set sail on X-mas. Ishmael remebers some old man giving him a warning to not go on the Pequod.
 * Captain Ahab
 * Mates- his harpooner
 * 1. Starbuck-Quequeg
 * 2. Stubb-Tashlego
 * 3. Flask-Dugoo
 * After the harpoon sinks into the whale, they spin an chain around the whale's tale so it stays on the side of the boat and then they strip the whale for its blubber.
 * There is a constant battle between Christianity and Paganism in the story
 * Ahab came on deck: he is like a tree that is split by lightening because of his white scar that starts at his face and goes down his collar. He has a whale ivory peg leg.
 * He was "dismasted" (he's half a man now)
 * Ahab offers them a gold coin (equivalent to 7 bucks) and bribes the crew.
 * Whoever spots Mobydick they will get the gold. (For now, he hammers the coin into the mass of the ship= crucifiction)
 * Moby Dick is a great albino whale that has old harpoons and ropes in his hide.The white men call him the white whale and the islanders call him the Moby-Dick.
 * Moby Dick is the reason for Ahab's peg leg.
 * Starbuck is the voice of reason
 * Captain Ahab uses persuasion: yelling, questions, gathering them together, gives them drinks, offer the crew a reward
 * Starbuck thinks its ridiculous that Ahab is acting out of vengeance and that they are risking losing of fortune to look for one whale who acted out of instinct.
 * April 12, 2012**
 * Moby Dick**
 * Masks are everywhere in everything, Ahab's obsession with the whale is due to his belief that the whale may be an omniscent being wearing a mask..
 * Ahab used his oratory skills to persuade the crew to believe in his ideals, he is also leading the pack as the alpha male into certain death.
 * The passing of the goblets resembles communion of a satanist group, portraying Ahab as a godlike figure.
 * "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"**
 * Point of view for this story is what makes the story, Ambrose Bierce uses vivid details to surrealize the story.
 * Surreal Elements- abnormal amounts of running (endless running), perfect tree line, sounds of voices, darkness and superhuman speed, Wife's emotion was plastic, the escape was too easy,

** April 13th, 2012 ** ** "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" ** Section II Section III
 * 'A piece of dancing driftwood caught his attention and his eyes followed it down the current. How slowly it appeared to move! What a sluggish stream!'- It explains this is the third-person limited point of view.
 * Doomed man- dead
 * Gray-Confederate <-> Blue-Union
 * A gray-clad soldierwith Confederate clothes was a Union Spy.
 * It shows super human sense as Farquhar tries to escape.
 * Time manipulation- Fast/Slow
 * Escape Death-multiple times
 * '...stars looking unfamiliar and grouped in strange constellations'- it explains that he is in his imaginary world.
 * Peyton Farquhar was dead- jumps back out from his imagination.

places-states genres-rock n' roll, glam rock, grunge, psychodelic, punk, etc. -professions: engineers, farmers, scientists, students, fry cooks, hobos, soldier, doctors. garbage collectors -age -carols, working sounds
 * 16 April 2012**
 * Looked over the following poems: "I Hear America" pg. 396, "Learn'd Astronomer" pg. 397, "Beat Beat Drums!" pg. 400, "Song of Myself" pg. 407
 * Watched music video to "California" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
 * In the song:
 * Catologues: a category that appeals to various people. Used to make a connection with, in music, the listeners. Extensive list of details of images.
 * Free verse: free flowing, cadences resembling speech. Poetry that does not have a certain patten, rhythm, or rhyme to it.
 * "I Hear America


 * 17 April 2012**
 * **Commonly Misused Words**
 * accept- to take in (v)
 * except- other than (prep)
 * affect- to influence (v)
 * effect- a result (n)
 * aid- to give assistance (v)
 * Write a sentence using each word: accept, except, affect, effect, aid, aide
 * Read novels- 10 minutes
 * **Walt Whitman**
 * cataloguing
 * free verse
 * appeal to common man
 * **When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer (397)**
 * mankind must label, study, assign numbers to wonder
 * **Beat! Beat! Drums! (400)**
 * onomatopeoia- words sound like their meaning
 * beat
 * buzz
 * everyone feels effects of war
 * war brings people together
 * alliteration- repeating of initial consonants
 * B,M,S,T
 * **Song of Myself (407)**
 * celebrates his individuality and his oneness with the world
 * "And I am.." becomes main character in his works

Epic Poems from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman __Stanza 1__ __Stanza 6__ __Stanza 16__ __Stanza 17 & 46__
 * 24 April 2012**
 * Hero
 * Journey
 * Challenges
 * Hero emerges as different (change)
 * Celebrates kinship with reader
 * Allows for no rules
 * Nothing will be neglected
 * We are all connected
 * We must respect others opinions
 * Children are wisest people
 * There is no death (cycle)
 * Eternal
 * Cataloguing
 * o States
 * o Profession
 * o Age
 * o Season
 * o Nature
 * o Native American
 * o Size
 * Contrast
 * o Residence
 * Heterogeneous (diversity)
 * Universality of Human Thought
 * Mundane
 * Leads readers to life itself

from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman __Stanza 51__ __Stanza 52__ Barbaric Yawp - use the best words
 * 25 April 2012**
 * Adj: bemusing
 * Adj: serene

Dickinson Notes Con't 4/30/12 Robinson- very depressing stories, characters filled with sadness __Richard Cory__ __Miniver Cheevy__ 5/1/12 __Julius Caesar__
 * 26 April 2012**
 * Success is Counted Sweetest
 * Losers know success best
 * War is unfair - when the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
 * I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
 * Narrator is seen as a ghost (pale,) and usually an old lady
 * Heaves of a storm = eye of the hurricane
 * King = Death, God, the narrator's spirit
 * Dickinson views death as easy, or at least hopes it will be
 * The Morning after Death
 * Broken emotions have to be cleaned up
 * Because I Could Not Stop for Death
 * Death - slow, elongated, chaffuer, kind, civil - A gentleman
 * Passes school (childhood,) grain (maturity,) setting sun (old age.)
 * Sinking house is a coffin
 * everybody has problems
 * the charmed life is not a charmed life.
 * nostalgia- feelings from childhood; yearning for past.
 * Can you have nostalgia for a time you never lived in?
 * Everyone over-romanticised a time period.
 * Cheevy fantasises about how he wishes he could live in midevil times.
 * Drama: a story told mainly through the words and actions of characters.
 * Tragedy: a play in which the main character suffers a downfall.
 * the hero of a tragedy is called a "tragic hero".
 * Tragic heros usually fall because of a tragic flaw.
 * Most tragic flaws relate back to the character's __hubris__. Ding!!!!
 * A tragic hero both __evokes__ both pity and fear. DIng!!!
 * The audience is aware of the tragic flaw before they are.
 * Shakespeare is referred as "the bard" or "the bard of avon".
 * 1594: Shakespeare joined company of players called the "Lord Chamberlain's Men".
 * 1599: the company built its own theater, the globe.
 * __triumvirate__: the rule of three.
 * First triumvirate: Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus.

5/2/12 //**__Ceasar__**// The people are ignorant and do not care about the politics of the government. Antony- the athlete calpurnia- ceasars wife big theme is masking and hidding ones identity you can never see what you really look like. only other people know exactly what you look like. brutus is to noble- his one character flaw fears ceasar will become king

5/3/12 __**Act 2**__ __**Act 3**__
 * __The Tragedy of Julius Ceasar__**
 * Ceaser and Marcus are good friends,but they don't agree politically
 * Casius slanders Ceaser inorder to persaude Marcus. (Ceaser is just a man, Ceaser is weaker)
 * First agruement: Ceaser and Casius have a swimming contest. Casius beats Ceaser in a swimming contest becaus he can not swim.
 * Second agruement: Ceaser is weak because he acted like a baby when he got a fever in Spain.
 * Third arguement: Why are the fates making us to follow Ceaser? Thats not fate, but the fate is them not having the power to stop him.
 * Fourth agruement: Carvers Marcus Brutus and Ceaser's name on a wall to show they are the same.
 * Fifth agruement: Marcus' family is known for fighting tyranny.
 * Marcus' response is that he is unsure on what to do.
 * Ceaser doesn't want some that can rebel or "lean and hungry". He wants someone who is "fat".
 * Ceaser: Cassius doesn't do anything, but study people. That makes him dangerous,
 * Ceaser is deaf on his left side.
 * Casca = dark humor
 * Only a matter of time before Ceaser gets crowned.
 * He rejects the symbolic crown two times, but then has an epiletic attacks.
 * Opens about midnight on Match 15th
 * Brutus is stressed and hasn’t slept—he was pacing his garden
 * Lucius (14 year old servant of Brutus) is Brutus’s foil as he continually falls asleep because he has no stress or worries
 * Brutus: the sun brings the adder (poisonous snake). In the morning Caesar will become a an omnipotent dictator
 * Brutus: you don’t look down the ladder of success, Caesar will not service the people when he is dictator
 * Brutus: think him a serpent’s egg and kill him in the shell. He has to kill Caesar before he is dictator otherwise the “snake” will be free
 * Brutus finds the fake letters
 * It says Brutus is “sleeping” (unaware of the dangers of Caesar) and that Rome endorses his assassination and will stand with Brutus
 * The conspirators go to Brutus wearing cloaks and hoods so their identity is concealed (masking)
 * Note: Marcus Brutus and Decius Brutus aren’t related
 * Casca calls Brutus the “rising sun” meaning he is their hope to save the republic
 * The conspiracy: Brutus, Cassius, Decius, Casca, Cinna, Trebonius, Publius
 * Want to get the noble, honorable, and wise Cicero who is a stanch supporter of the republic
 * Brutus doesn’t want to bring in Cicero because he his ambition and doesn’t believe he will support the assassination because he didn’t start or lead it
 * Cassius wants to assassinate Mark Antony
 * Brutus is afraid the assassination will appear dishonorable and they will be perceived as “butchers” as they are killing Caesar out of necessity not out of any sense of pleasure or ambition. Brutus wants the conspirators to make clean, “sacrificial” cuts not brutal ones so it is viewed as a purge of the threat of autocratic rule not a murder
 * Cassius asks how they will kill Caesar if he doesn’t come to the Senate (remember he is very superstitious). Decius says he fill flatter him and bring him to the Senate if he is afraid to come.
 * Brutus wants the conspirators to leave the house calmly and happily as if he had invited them to his house for a party
 * Portia (Brutus’s wife) is upset that he won’t tell her what is wrong especially sense she as sacrificed to be with him
 * In the morning Caesar wakes up after having been awake three times during the night by Calpurnia’s screams for help after repeatedly witnessing Caesar’s death. She has also had other ominous omens forecasting his assassination
 * Caesar is very arrogant and refuses to believe that these omens aren’t for him and that no one should fear death as it is an eventual end to all
 * The augurers cut open an animal and can find no heart and tell Caesar to stay home but he insists on leaving for the Senate
 * However Caesar finally gives in to his wife’s pleas and decides to stay home until Decius begins to flatter him by using his hubris against them by demanding a reason why Caesar will not be present in the Senate, making the ominous omens out be good ones (bleeding statue means his blood is the new life blood of Rome rather than meaning what Calpurnia assumes, Caesar will be killed), and by challenging his manhood and insinuating that he is subservient to his wife
 * The conspirators come to Caesar’s home to accompany him to the Senate. Caesar assumes that they are there to celebrate his coronation
 * Artemidorus writes a letter to Caesar warning him about the assassination (obviously word has gotten around)
 * climax: where you see how easily people are swayed
 * Antony wants to speak at Ceasars funeral. Brutus says yes with conditions: 1) only speak good of Ceasar 2) only speak after Brutus
 * Antony's soliloquy: he's going to insite a roit against the conspirators to kill them
 * Octavius- Ceasars nephew
 * funeral: people are stupid in mass, crowd comes angry and Brutus convinces them to love him

__** 5/10/12 **__ __3 Most Common Types of Persuasian__ __Techniques__ __Persuasian in Commercials (IRenew and Animal Shelter)__ __Act III__
 * Logic and Reason
 * Emotions
 * Ethics and Morals
 * Figurative Language (Sensory details, hyperboles, rethorical questions, etc.)
 * Don't over use questions.
 * Parallelism and Repitition
 * Conotation and Denotation
 * Hyperbole ("Once you put it on, it will change your life.")
 * Bandwagon (Famous People)
 * Testimonial (Real people, not actors)
 * Medical Evidence
 * Demostrations
 * Double the Offer
 * Compare prices between regular people and famous people.
 * Negative parts go away quickly and are in small part.
 * Sad song
 * Celebrity endorsement
 * Emotions and Facts
 * Parallel structure
 * Brutus asks a rethorical question and waits for a reply.
 * He uses theatrics and patroism to prove his point.
 * **Brutus Mistakes**: Let Antony live ; Allow Antony to speak at the funeral ; Allowed Antony to speak after him ; Told crowd to stay until Antony is done speaking.
 * Antony is speaking sarcastly of the Conspirators. He uses the words honorable and ambitious.
 * Antony uses logic on how Caesar was ambitious. He picks apart Brutus reason as to why he killed Caesar.
 * He gives chunks of information to the crowd and uses pauses to gage where the crowd is.
 * He says he has Caesar's will and is using it to rile up the crowd.

5/11/12

Act III

- Antony uses Persuasion to excite the crown and encite a riot in the streets of Rome.

5/14/2012

Act IV


 * Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus are making a hit list of all the conspiratiors and plan on killing all the people that allied with Brutus and Cassius.
 * Antony and Octavius plan on getting rid of Lepidus because they see him as a pack mule, not an actual soldier for the cause. He is a loyal soldier, but they want to cut down the power trio down to two.

Larius Pella -takes bribes -Brutus castigated him when Cassius

Friends should bear faults or flatters should bear flaults.

=15 May 2012= = =


 * Octavius, Antony, Brutus, and Cassius parlay on the eve of battle.
 * If Cassius had gotten his way, Antony would already be dead, and the conspirators would rule Rome.
 * Cassius' birthday
 * Brutus sends a division to flank Octavius.
 * Titanius killed
 * Cassius commits suicide, with the same sword that he used to stab Ceasar.
 * Titanius not dead, proceeeds to kill himself
 * Cato is killed
 * Brutus seeks someone to kill him.Strato hold Brutus' sword while Brutus throws himself on it.


 * 16 May 2012**
 * Homework: read chopin "story/Hour" 548**
 * study vocab 2.0, review for final- Fri, Book Club Project- Thurs**

Dialect: a variation of a language spoken by a particular group, often within a specfic region and time Comedy: Slapstick, dry humor, crude humor, skit humor, stand-up humor Set-up (the story is leading somewhere, it has a point. . .but it doesn't) build ---> rising Twain pulls your leg as a reader =MAY 16 2012=
 * __The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County page 484 By: Mark Twain__**
 * Narrator is going East and his friend tells him to go find //his//friend, Simon Wheeler.
 * Narrator thinks his friend is setting him up to listen to Wheeler go on and on about Leonidas W. Smiley (who the Narrator thinks is a myth)
 * Simon Wheeler as he speaks, can detect his dialect, mannerism. Traps the Narrator in the corner.
 * Tells Narrator of someone named Jim Smiley who was a gambler- he'd bet on anything
 * Simon Wheeler wasn't getting off track, speaking of all the things Jim would bet on (a horse, dog, frog)
 * doesn't mention Leonidas W. Smiley
 * Jim bets a fellow on his frog, Dan'l Webster, who he thinks can jump the highest in Calaveras county.
 * gives Dan'l to fellow so he can get the fellow a frog. While Jim Smiley searched for a frog, the fellow filled Dan'l with 'quail shot' to make him heavy so when the bet against each other's frogs, Dan'l lost.
 * Simon Wheeler's interrupted and Narrator leaves

STUDY FOR FINAL- EXAM TOMORROW!!

__The Story of an Hour__ by Kate Chopin
 * Mrs. Brently Mallard experiences the pain and sorrow of her husband dying, as well as she is suffering from a heart condition.
 * Her family needed to give her the word of her husband's death softly as it would literally break her heart if they did not.
 * The window she is constantly looking out symbolizes freedom, she has to deal with the pain of her husband's death but at the same time she is enjoying the freedom. She does not want to reconize this feeling of freedom as it went against everything she was taught.
 * Dies of revoking of freedom- as her husband is not truly dead.