Wednesday, Dec. 12 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: “Law of Life”

*Discuss with your small group –add any additional notes from the small group in a different color:

*Conflict: Man Vs. Nature

*Conflict: Man Vs. Self

*Personification in general and specifically personification of Death: how?  Symbolism in general, and what does the old moose symbolize? Specific connections

*Characteristics of Era (Realism and Naturalism) –you need one specific piece of evidence for Realism and one for Naturalism

*TQE on the board in 15

*TIQA para on an E or Q your group DIDN’T write

*American Gothic- Refresher on Gothic Literature: Looks at humanity’s attempt to supersede nature, spiritual and emotional disconnect from nature: “men have become the tools of their tools”; “things are in the saddle and ride mankind”

*Poe

*Background Info p410, take notes

*“The Raven”, listen first, then annotate; specifically: structure, rhyme (mult. types), alliteration; plot (literal) and metaphoric meanings, characteristics of Gothic Lit., influence of Poe’s life

*“plot” of poem (specifically the questions the narrator asks and why he gets angry at the Raven’s answer)

*All this will be checked Thursday

REMINDER: *Week 6 blog post needs to have:

*At least one LINK (like we’ve worked on) as well as the images

*Discussion of at least one theme (hopefully more) you see emerging in your book

*Discussion of some craft idea of the writing (look at the link on my edublogs for guiding questions to help with this)