Novel Project

Novel Proposal:

1. Comprehension
ELABLRL1- I can show my cpmprehension by being able to identify the point of view, symbolism, main ideas, and genres by using evidence taken directly from the literary work.
2.Theme
ELABLRL2- I understand what the theme of the novel is by being able to construct a literary work in the same theme.
3. Connections
ELABLRL3- I can relate what the author is trying to tell me or persuading me to believe to certain events or other novels from modern times.

I can use standards 1,2, and 3 in my responses. I can give evidence for the comprehension, make connections, and tell what the theme is in my three reponses.

4. Composition
ELABLRL4- Writing a poem, or Drawing a picture of the views or opinions I recieve from this book will display my knowledge of the composition.
5. Vocabulary
ELABLRL5- I will keep a list of words I don't know and will define them.


RESPONSE 1:
As I have stumbled upon the point for my first response, I know that Huxley has created a world where poeple don't have histories and everyone was made from test tubes. There are social classes, just like there are in today's world; but they're social classes are programmed to do certain jobs and wear certain colors and uniforms. I know what's going on in the book, but I really don't understand; I havn't connected enough to really enjoy the book.
There are some connections so far that were fairly easy to identify. One is that Ford, like the maker of the cars, is their "God". When they speak they might say "Oh Ford", or "Ford knows. . . " I think that Huxeley made Ford the one they all look towards because his world is displaying the future and at the time he was writing the novel, the Ford models were in style and industry and cities were taking over.


RESPONSE 2:
I'm really enjoying the novel now. In the novel the children are speacialluy conditioned and they are taught certain sayings to help maintain order in the society. Women and men are extremely permiscuous, and in their world, it's ok. They have a 1,2,3 step for contraceptives and protection from pregnancy that they learn early on. In our world permiscuity is common and accepted to a point, yet in Huxley's time, it was frowned upon.
The "New" world has no real mothers or families or sadness. They take soma, which iv'e come to view as a type of ecstasy; yet when they take too much, it's like a sedative and they go on a holiday or sleep for days. Lenina takes it to escape the native world; which I think has a relationship with the way some people do heavy drugs in our world to escape life for as long as they can.
The world also has a world different from theirs. It's called the native reserve and there are mothers there, religion, history, and real work such as hunting and providing and making things to wear and eat from. There is disease and famine is this native land and if you are born there, you will age and die there. The native land in the story is pretty much how we are living in today's world.
Bernard and Lenina bring back a savage from the reservation who happens to be white and the Director's son. As the savage enters the new world, he talks about a Miranda and how she had said or written something about a "Brave New World." I don't know who Miranda is yet, or why the savage is unhappy in the new world, but I think it's because he has found love with Lenina and has to share it with other men. I also think Miranda is some kind of character from the Shakespear book he's reading that he got from the reserve.


Vocabulary:
analogous- being related to
bequeathed- to give or leave by will
flivver- a small cheap or old automobile
atonement- reconciliation of God and humankind through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ
pneumatic- having a well proportioned feminie figure
indecorous- conflicting with accepted standards of good conduct
precipitous- very steep
ochre- an earthy red or yellow iron ore
vivaparous- producing living young instead of eggs within the body
sepulchral-a place of burial

Persuasive Writing Final Draft
Hillary Gaddy
11/30/2009

You should enjoy taking your poops. Pooping is a natural cycle of the body; it is used as a method of flushing out excess and harmful wastes. Defecation is also a good way to relieve pressure and make you feel happier and healthier. There are so many ways to enjoy your pooping experience that I’m sure you can find one way that will lighten your heart, and have you on the edge of your seat waiting for that poop signal.
Your colon acts as a storage facility. The walls can expand as more waste enters. When full, the anal sphincter relaxes and causes a message to be sent to your brain, telling you it’s time to grab your gaming device and have a nice time in the restroom. If people don’t poop when their brains tell them to, the waste returns to their colons and waits for your rectum to become full again. If you keep holding it, the waste in one’s colon will harden and you will become constipated. When humans become constipated, they experience a lot of pain and if they don’t defecate eventually, they will have to go to the hospital.
The natural defecation position is squatting. Squat, or natural position, toilets are commonly used today among humans. According to Bockus Gastroenterology, “The ideal posture for defecation is the squatting position, with the thighs flexed upon the abdomen. In this way, the capacity of the abdominal cavity is greatly diminished and intra-abdominal pressure increased, thus encouraging expulsion. . .”Do you use the natural defecation position? Of course you do, we all do. Try to visualize yourself pooping; you’re on your toilet, squatting and holding your breath. As waste is released, the body starts to feel lighter and healthier. Thanks to the natural defecation process everyone can experience the joy of feeling fresh and ready for a new cycle to begin.
Now we must discuss wiping; though it may not be the most fun thing about pooping, there are definitely many ways to wipe that can turn that frown upside down. Most European and Asian countries consider wiping oneself dirty and very unsanitary. So they use bidets, or special toilets that have a stream of water that cleanses people after defecation or urination. Sounds scary but really fun, right? Even if some don’t want to use a bidet, or just can’t afford one, they should at least be thankful that we have access to toilet paper. In the older times people would use uncomforting things such as wool, hemp, wood shavings, stones, sand, or even moss to wipe themselves with.
Having fun on the toilet while taking your first, second or third poop of the day is easier than one might think. I, myself like to play video games on my handheld gaming device, but others might enjoy doing different activities. Making toilet paper origami sounds really fun, then there’s always the standard texting or talking on the phone. For those with fancy iPhones and Blackberries, you can surf the web, even play some Farmville on Facebook.
Pooping is in everyone’s near future. One really shouldn’t try to escape from it, as it will have consequences, such as constipation, like I explained earlier. Why not have some fun while having to be seated in the squatting position? Pooping is fun, natural, and super healthy. Humans everywhere need to embrace the swelling anal sphincter and messages sent to your brain and defecation will be the highlight of your day.

Unit 4- Modernism

ELAALRL2 is most difficult because you have to provide literal evidence from a passage to support your analysis and you have to know how to use it in American Literature rather than any certain kind of Language Arts.

1. Choose one of the Modernism themes named above that you are most interested in studying. Write a paragraph that describes why you made this choice and how you expect to see the topic you chose represented in the literature you are about to read. I chose Disillusionment because I liked the way it's opening everyone's eyes to the real America. Disillusionment is the process of realizing what your reality is instead of believing a dream or usuing your imagination. Modernism uses Disillusionment to tell people about how the American Dream isn't real. The American Dream was the illusion that America was "the land of oppourtunity and all its people were virtuous." Yet, that wasn't true at all. In America there was poverty and crime just like in any other country or city during WWI. I do know that I am going to read about Disillusionment in stories by authors such as Ernest Hemingway. I can understand his stories because I know that he was in WWI and he was placed in a hospital in France, I think, and he didn't want to leave. Towards the end he was even a very unhappy man.

2. Read the story that corresponds to the theme you chose. The disillusionment story wouldn't work on my computer so i read the psychoanalysis one instead.Type a two-paragraph response to the story you read, and then provide another two paragraphs in which you analyze the theme you chose and how it is represented in the story. Take time to explain how the author features the theme you chose, and go deeper and explain what you believe he or she is saying about America. This will require you to provide examples straight from the texts as well as some synthesis on your part.

I liked the story I read about Mr. Mitty. Walter Mitty is a man who lives in London I think; he has a wife to which he must obey her every say-so. Walter drops his wife off at the hairdressers and throughout the time it takes him to wait for her he goes on more than one fruitful adventure.

His first adventure begins after his stop at a red light. He goes to see the doctor because his wife told him to, but all the while there he pretends that he is a famous doctor and saves the day when a machine breaks down in the operation room. His second adeventure takes place in a courtroom to which he is on trial for murdering someone. Finally, his third trip is into battle during WWI I guess; he's interuppted when his wife comes back from her hair appointment.

This author does a good job capturing the theme of psychoanalysis. I believe this because throughout the whole story, Mr. Mitty is trying to escape the reality of his nagging wife. I don't know why he goes to war, or becomes adoctor, or even imagines that he kills somebody; but I think thats the point of psychoanalysis.

To me, the author is trying to say that America is full of straight- laced, rule- following people. The story says that to live in America you need to have an imagination to get away from the everyday stresses; even if it's just dealing with an unfriendly wife.

3. Read the following poems and write a paragraph response to each in which you explain your opinions about what is being written as well as identifying one of the elements of modernism in each.

• Richard Corey by Edwin Arlington Robinson- I think this poems represents the Modernism theme of Disillusionment because the author explains to you how he was a gentleman, he was rich, and everyone envied him. Then, in the end Richard Corey kills himself. You don't figure out why, but I think disillusionment because everyone onthe streets was so wrapped up in his appearances and his wealth that they never realized his pain, and that kind of sums up how America isn't as great as it should be.
• Mending Wall by Robert Frost- To me, all this poem is describing in a wall. It has told me how many different ways the wall was knocked down, and how it was yet put up again. I think that Robert Frost was using the psychoanalysis theme because twoward the middle and end of the poem, the character was wondering why good fences make such good neighbors. The poem never tells you why they have to put back up their wall and why it makes them good neighbors; so I think that Frost wants you to look for some deeper meaning and to analyze what the wall could mean to them and their orchards.
• A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes- I think maybe Langston Hughes was talking about disillusionment. His poem is called a dream deferred, so why couldn't he be talking about the American dream? Or is he talking about the African American Dream and using the theme of the Harlem Renaissance? Either way he is talking about what happens to a dream once someone finds out it's not going to come true or sets it aside.
• The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes- The Harlem Renaissance was used in this poem I believe. This poems speaks of how one person, or race maybe, has been by rivers in many different situations. The poems explains how there was a hut built near a river, someone heard Abe Lincoln in New Orleans, and another person decided to pull up a pyramid near a river; in all that time they had all grown respect for the rivers and their souls and minds ran as deep as the river.
• Incident by countee Cullen- This story most definetly has the influenceof the Harlem Renaissance. This little boy was discriminated against because the color of his skin; he was eight and he probably didn't understand why either. The harlem renaissance told about some of the strifes of African Americans, and so does this poem.

4. How have you improved on understanding the Georgia Performance Standard you said was most difficult for you? I've practiced and had to provide direct evidence to support my opinions, and now that I did that and I understood that themes of whatever Literary element I'm studying, it's gotten easier.