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American Literature March 7 th and 10 th

American Literature March 7 th and 10 th. Peer edit rough draft of expository essay Revise and bring final draft next class exchange with your #3’s ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS – write down and answer in your notebook What is truth? How do our truths compare to society’s?

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American Literature March 7 th and 10 th

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  1. American Literature March 7th and 10th • Peer edit rough draft of expository essay • Revise and bring final draft next class exchange with your #3’s • ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS – write down and answer in your notebook • What is truth? How do our truths compare to society’s? • What rules must people follow? • How our perceptions of ourselves differ from others’? • What is an individual’s relationship to society? • How does our environment (people and places) affect us? • How are observations of our surroundings an important way to understand our place in the world? • How does experience affect one’s observations? • Notes – Vocab • Stream of Consciousness writing activity part II • Read Chapter 1 – 3 page 1-26 • Standard 2 & 3

  2. Vocabulary: Catcher in the Rye Ch. 1-3 • Hemorrhage (n.) massive, heavy bleeding • Grippe (n.) flu • Sadist (n.) torturer • Falsetto (adj., n.) high voice • Qualms (n.) misgivings • Pacifist (n.) peace lover • Compulsory (adj.) necessary

  3. 8. Foils (n.) swords 9. Gore (n.) blood 10. Innumerable (adj.) countless 11. Exhibitionist (n.) show-off 12. Unscrupulous (adj.) unprincipled 13. Crude (adj.) lacking tact or taste 14. Rostrum (n.) a platform or podium

  4. Stream of Consciousness Writing, Part II • We started with “Peanuts make me think of my dad which makes me think of laughing which makes me think of my friends which….” • Cut out the “which makes me think of and just record your thoughts. • Ex: Peanuts my dad laughing friends. DON’T WORRY ABOUT PUNCTUATION THIS ONE TIME. • The topic this time is school…(5 min.)

  5. Congratulations!!! • What you have just done is an extremely sophisticated form of writing called stream of consciousness—writing whatever comes into you mind lacking any sort of punctuation.

  6. Stream of Consciousness in E.B. White's "The Door" • "Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn't. And everybody is always somewhere else. Maybe it was the city, being in the city, that made him feel how queer everything was and that it was something else. Maybe (he kept thinking) it was the names of the things. The names were tex and frequently koid. Or they were flex and oid or they were duroid (sani) or flexsan (duro), but everything was glass (but not quite glass) and the thing that you touched (the surface, washable, crease-resistant) was rubber, only it wasn't quite rubber and you didn't quite touch it but almost. The wall, which was glass but turned out on being approached not to be a wall, it was something else, it was an opening or doorway--and the doorway (through which he saw himself approaching) turned out to be something else, it was a wall. And what he had eaten not having agreed with him." • (opening paragraph of "The Door" by E.B. White. The New Yorker, 1939)

  7. Stream of Consciousness in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway • "She remembered once throwing a shilling into the Serpentine. But every one remembered; what she loved was this, here, now, in front of her; the fat lady in the cab. Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely; all this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely? but that somehow in the streets of London, on the ebb and flow of things, here, there, she survived, Peter survived, lived in each other, she being part, she was positive, of the trees at home; of the house there, ugly, rambling all to bits and pieces as it was; part of people she had never met; being laid out like a mist between the people she knew best, who lifted her on their branches as she had seen the trees lift the mist, but it spread ever so far, her life, herself." • (Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, 1925)

  8. Stream of Consciousness in Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test • "MORE TELEFONO TRUCKS! TWO LOUD WHISTLES THIS TIME--FOR NO EARTHLY REASON EXCEPT TO COME GIT YOU. YOU HAVE MAYBE 35 SECONDS LEFT • "--Kesey has Cornel Wilde Running Jacket ready hanging on the wall, a jungle-jim corduroy jacket stashed with fishing line, a knife, money, DDT, tablet, ball-points, flashlight, and grass. Has it timed by test runs that he can be out the window, down through a hole in the roof below, down a drain pipe, over a wall and into thickest jungle in 45 seconds--well, only 35 seconds left, but head start is all that’s needed, with the element of surprise. Besides, it's so fascinating to be here in subastral projection with the cool rushing dex, synched into their minds and his own, in all its surges and tributaries and convolutions, turning it this way and that and rationalizing the situation for the 100th time in split seconds, such as: If they have that many men already here, the phony telephone men, the cops in the tan car, the cops in the Volkswagen, what are they waiting for? why haven't they crashed right in through the rotten doors of this Rat building--" • (Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1968)

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