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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 HONORS II ENGLISH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 HONORS II ENGLISH. Let’s FINISH hearing our presentations! As we hear each presentation, you will be responsible for taking notes (at least five bullet points per group) of important points made. Call these “A Separate Peace Notes.”

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 HONORS II ENGLISH

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  1. SEPTEMBER 4, 2012HONORS II ENGLISH Let’s FINISH hearing our presentations! As we hear each presentation, you will be responsible for taking notes (at least five bullet points per group) of important points made. Call these “A Separate Peace Notes.” • What do at least 2 of the following events reveal about Finny: BlitzBall, Winter Olympics, Finny’s swim record (3 & 9)? • Which Biblical allusions are present in the book and what is the author trying to reveal through these allusions? (4) • How is Gene’s internal conflict similar to the external conflict that is occurring in the setting outside of Devon? (4) • Explain the symbolism of the river & the seasons (6 & 7)? • What is the importance of Leper’s character in the story (7 & 10)? • How does Finny change after his accident? How does Gene change after Finny’s accident?

  2. REMINDERS • Turn in warm-ups on the stool before you leave today.  • Tomorrow= a test on A Separate Peace. • The first part will be to test if you read the whole book. • The other parts will be about what we’ve discussed in class, what each group did for their group work, and what we have done warm-ups on. Make sure you study notes and warm-ups! • Tomorrow = make up test for Tone Words (come in either at 7:30, at first lunch, at 5th period (with a pass and permission from your teacher) OR after school to make it up. • On the bottom of your “A Separate Peace Notes,” draw a line and continue taking notes on the following slides… notes. • A note on notes: Always date them, title them, and save them where you can find them months from now.

  3. STANDARDS Listening and Speaking 1.1: Formulate judgments about the ideas under discussion and support those judgments with convincing evidence.

  4. A SEPARATE PEACE • Review the following two quotes from the story: • “There was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved. And if it wasn’t there, as for example with Phineas, then I put it there myself.” (Knowles 92) • “Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he.” (Knowles 51)

  5. CHARACTERS AND CONFLICT The two most important characters to a conflict are: • Protagonist: Usually in first person p.o.v., the narrator is automatically the protagonist • Antagonist: The antagonist is the one with whom the protagonist main character or narrator has his greatest conflict.

  6. A SEPARATE PEACE Are the majority of human beings Genes or Finnys? WHY?

  7. CHRIST FIGURE A Christ figure is found when an author makes an allusion to the biblical Jesus Christ and a character in his story. The Christ Figure is the character who parallels Jesus. How is Finny a Christ Figure?

  8. CHRIST FIGURE A Christ Figure displays more than one link with the story of Jesus Christ in the Bible including: • performance of miracles • divine qualities • healing others • display loving kindness and forgiveness • fight for justice • being guided by the spirit of the character's father • Associated with disciples, water, food, etc. • death and resurrection • Martyring or sacrificing him/herself for the greater good

  9. GOD FIGURE Another time that Finny is spoken about like a god is… __________________________________________ ______________________________________________ Hint: Look in Ch. 6… (First one to find it wins candy!)

  10. POINT OF VIEW First person point of view: The story is told from the point of view of a main character involved in the story. • While the story is told in first person point of view, it is not told in PRESENT tense. Rather it is told through a FLASHBACK • Flashback: A technique in literature by which a character pauses to refer to events from the past.

  11. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE • In well-written novels, figurative language is not just something amusing, impressive or done to show off– it says something important about characters, themes, settings, etc. • Metaphor= comparing two unalike things . • Simile = comparing two unalike things using “like” or “as.” • Personification = giving a non-human object human-like characteristics. • The following is an example: • “It was like… golden machine gun fire.” (Knowles ___)

  12. MICROCOSM “Micro” means miniature/small and “cosm” refers to the cosmos or the universe. • Microcosm= small universe or SMALL WORLD. • It is used in literature to mean that a smaller part of the world is a representation of the bigger world. • Devon is a microcosm, meaning it is a smaller version of the world. • How is Devon a “microcosm”? (Candy is the bribery for answering this…)

  13. MOTIF Motif= an idea, object or statement that is repetitive in a work of literature. • Motif v. Theme: • A theme is the main idea of a text • A motif is a something that reoccurs which symbolizes that idea. The motif can also be the central idea behind the theme, such as courage or loyalty.

  14. DUALISM Dualism= the belief that two opposite things cannot exist without each other. • Example: light vs. dark; hot vs. cold; black vs. white • Moral dualism= the belief that evil exists because it must for us to know what constitutes good. • Most religious systems rely on the idea of moral dualism to explain why evil exists in a good world. • How does this play out in this novel? *The yin and yang symbolizes the dualism in nature and in all things in the Taoist religion.

  15. DUALISM The motif of dualism is • 2 rivers • Devon River • Naguamsett • 2 seasons • Summer • Winter • Youth/Adulthood • Age 16 • Age 17 seen in the following: • Foil characters • Finny/Leper • Gene/Brinker • War/Peace • Good/evil

  16. DUALISM • Place each word below in the appropriate place in the column next to it: • Age 16 • Age 17 • Summer • Winter • Devon River • Naguamsett River • Gene • Finny • War • Peace • Playing • Competing • Picking apples • Shoveling snow

  17. SYMBOLISM • In literature, we more often talk about symbolism than dualism. • Symbolism = an object, time of year, place or action that can represent something other than what it literally is. • Ex.: What does Candy’s dog in Of Mice and Men symbolize? The following are symbols • Summer • Winter • Devon River • Naguamsett River • Finny’s fall from the tree

  18. BILDUNGSROMAN Bildungsroman= a “coming of age” story in which the protagonist’s psychological and moral growth from youth to adulthood is at the center of the story. Here are some characteristics: • Protagonist is a sensitive person looking for answers and experience • In the beginning of the story, there is an emotional loss which makes the protagonist begin his journey • The goal is maturity, and the protagonist achieves it gradually and with difficulty

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