Language Arts 9th Grade – Eng I Weekly Forecast 4/23/07 – 4/27/07

1. Welcome Braddock Bulldogs!!! MRS. CONTRERASLanguage Arts9th Grade – Eng I Gifted/Honors Room C209 2006-2007

2. Weekly Forecast4/23/07 – 4/27/07 • Monday – "The Sea-Wolf" Ch 10-14. Study grammar rules (hdts 151-156 & 235-240). • Tuesday – (periods 1,3 & 5) Math Interims. Quiz on grammar rules (hdts 151-156 & 235-240).Work on Home learning assignment. • Wednesday – (periods 1,2,4 & 6) Reading Interims. Quiz on grammar rules (hdts 151-156 & 235-240).Work on Home learning assignment. • Thursday – "The Sea-Wolf" Ch 15-18. • Friday – "The Sea-Wolf" Ch 19-24.

3. Home Learning By Monday, 4/30: • Read The Sea Wolf Chapter 25 - End. • Read Night Introduction - pg 60. • Bring grammar hdts 245-260 next week to class for Finals Review! Have a great week!

4. Extended Home LearningAssignment (Due 5/7/07). • In an effort to enhance student writing skills and performance, all students are to rewrite (retype) all essay writing samples editing flaws and incorporating feedback provided. This assignment includes all hand-written essays in class as well as both research paper(s). Staple updated final draft on top of previous drafts. • Recap Sheets must be updated and placed on top of all drafts which must be compiled in date order. • A student reflection must be attached to the top evaluating your written work this year. Obviously this should take into consideration the feedback that has been provided throughout the course of the year.

5. Class Response…Monday 1) Respond to Wolf Larsen’s quote below: “And [Death Larsen] is all the happier for leaving life alone. He is too busy living it to think about it. My mistake is ever opening the books” (66). 2) Respond to Larsen’s reading of the biblical excerpt of Ecclesiastes (68-69).

6. The Sea Wolf Bryan Bonilla Chapters 10-14 The sea wolf as shown in a comic book. Courtesy of Google images

7. About The Author • 1876- Jack London was born January 12, 1876, son of William Henry Chaney and Flora Wellman • 1893- Serves several months aboard the sealing schooner Sophia Sutherland in Bering Sea sealing waters and the North Pacific. • 1895-Finishes public school education at Oakland High School. • 1896- Joins Socialist Labor Party • 1901- First daughter, Joan, is born. • 1904- The Sea-Wolf is published

8. About The Author Continued. • 1916- Resigns from Socialist Party '"because of its lack of fire and fight, and its loss of emphasis on the class struggle." Dies at 7:45 p.m., November 22, of uremic poisoning

9. Chapter 10 • This chapter starts out with Humphrey pointing out Wolfs complete superiority to himself, and compares himself to Wolfs toy and mentions how easily he could be crushed. Throughout the book wolf is made to seem superhuman and in this chapter he is humanized. The beginning of this chapter has Humphrey mentioning how he saw Wolf stricken with grief cursing to no one in particular in his cabin. Later on we have the captain falling ill. Struggling to maintain his image even in his moment of vulnerability he comments on how he has never been sick a day in his life. Wolf, even in his moment of weakness continues to astound us by revealing that he has been working on a navigational device of incredibly complex proportions. Humphreys continues to question the captains ethics and leads us all to the question of weather he is immoral or simply unmoral. It raises the question “who are we to pass judgment on Wolf not knowing his experiences?”. Wolf never had the luxury of growing up learning societies pre-set limits for what is right and what is wrong. As soon as these questions are raised we get an insight into his upbringing.we learn of what can considered Wolf Larsen's foil, his own brother “Death”, it is revealed that Death has all the same unadulterated brutishness that Wolf is known for but with none of the intelligence that adds mystique to his character. This lets us question what would happen to Wolf had he not picked up a few books. Would he walk the darker path that his brother chose had he not had the bright light of knowledge to guide himself? His brother is revealed to be unable to read or write but wolf says that he is all the happier never having the capacity to philosophize about life.

10. Chapter 11 • We start this chapter by having Humphrey speak on the effects of his new lifestyle on his body. He mentions that he is gaining muscle mass, blistered hands and boils due to his new diet. Later on he spies Wolf reading a bible which amuses him. Wolf reads him a few passages from the bible and concludes that his way of thinking is echoed in the bible. He begins to speak on the inner need for life and how we can compromise ourselves in the struggle for life. The life within us has no other nature but to live so it will do whatever it can to stay in the body. He proceeds to demonstrate this by throttling our beloved Humphrey and vividly narrating the ordeal as it happens asking Humphrey if he can feel the life fleeting form his body. He continues accounting what is happening to him until he loses consciousness. When Humphrey awaken he finds himself invited to a friendly chat by Wolf and is reluctant due to the physical nature of his demonstrations after the captain promises that he will no longer use demonstrations he nervously sits down with him and we are left marveling at the captains instability and he toys with Humphrey.

11. Chapter 12 • Chapter twelve starts out informing us of Mugridges new hobby, namely spying on the other crew mates. This proves to be very unfortunate for Johnson. This turn of events lets us know how low Mugridge is willing to go for approval. Mugridge reveals to wolf that Johnson didn’t find the quality of the oilskins to be up to par. Wolf had no choice but to confront the man or be accused of leading an unruly crew. When wolf speaks to Johnson, Johnson had built up the courage to say that he is unliked because he was too much of a man for him. Wolf has no other choice but to make an example of him lest he lose respect as a captain. He then proceeds to brutally beat Johnson far beyond recognition with the aid of Johansen. Perhaps the most frightening part of this was that wolf asked Humphrey to stay and witness the phenomena of life. After this bloody ordeal George stumbles upon the scene and without a word dresses Johnson's wounds after dragging him away. We later see leach’s complete audacity as he raves to the sky cursing wolfs name in every way imaginable. The crew is marveling at his audacity when Cooky peeks out from the cabin to see the anticipated outcome of his words when leach proceeds to beat him mercilessly taking advantage of the fact that he is without a blade

12. Chapter 13 • Chapter thirteen is an interesting chapter because its events take place after not one but two ruthless beatings. Because of those beatings Cooky couldn’t perform his normal duties and this left Humphrey to do them for the course of three days, the time allotted for him to recover. The rest of the crew commented on Humphreys superiority Cooky and began to poke fun at him. Throughout the book Cooky is seen as being needlessly antagonistic, but in chapter 13 he becomes humanized when he tells of his rough childhood letting us sympathize with him. Later on we se how Humphrey has efficiently assimilated himself into the ships environment. With the exception of Cooky he holds no grudges with anyone on the shi[ and he is primarily hated by Cooky because of the fact that he had such an easy life being born into money raising thoughts about aristocratic lifestyles especially when Cooky asks where the justice is in the way that he struggled to survive while Humphrey was born into the lap of luxury

13. Chapter 14 • At the beginning of this chapter we see Humphrey vexed at how the men onboard could turn out how they did. He concludes that they grew to be so callous and brutish due to lack of women. With the lack of a feminine nurturing entity they could not help but turn out how they did because of the lack of softer emotions present.Then we have a very interesting matter take place. We aren't told exactly what had happened but we are granted the knowledge that captain wolf is bleeding form his head. The captain checks up on the crew mates and checks their pulses to see if they had really been sleeping. In the midst of this, wolf is checking Johnson's pulse and leach then pounces on him from the top bunk and is quickly joined by Johnson in his assault and soon more crew members begin to attack the captain.It took a total of seven men to subdue our beloved captain wolf. Wolf being as superhuman as he is climbed a ladder with the seven men clinging to him and manages to kick all of them off of himself.

14. Chapter 10- The point of this chapter was to humanize captain wolf Larsen, he is vulnerable at all points in this chapter. He is physically vulnerable when he becomes sick for the first time in his life and we can see an emotional vulnerability when wolf tells us of his childhood revealing more about himself . Chapter 11-Chapter eleven has its purpose in showing us how much superior wolf is to Humphrey and how he toys with his life as if it were some sort of plaything. Chapter 12- Chapter twelve lets us see how the ship is much like a pack of animals. Not only in the brutal sense but that of their social structure. When Wolf is disrespected by Johnson when he says he is too much of a man he is enduring a shot that would let other believe that he is weak if he does not retaliate with force. Chapter 13- Chapter thirteen obviously is meant to let us sympathize with the ships cook after he tells us of his troubled childhood and lets us ponder the fairness of the fact that those bon into money never have to work for it. Chapter 14- this particular chapter is meant to show how absolute power is always disputed and that even though Wolf is clearly superior to anyone in his crew he is challenged for power because everyone on board views him as a threat. Analysis The cover of the soundtrack to the sea wolf, the motion picture courtesy Google images

15. Blooms Taxonomy • 1. What did Johnson believe to be the reason that Wolf singled him out? • 2. Explain why that lead to his inevitable beating • 3. Apply this situation to everyday life. Find an example you yourself might run into. • 4. Compare and contrast Wolf to his brother Death • 5. Compose the beliefs that Mugridge has and why he hates Humphrey so adamantly for them • 6. Discuss what might have led the crew to take the action that they did Cover of The Sea Wolf Courtesy Google images

16. Criticisms • Edward W. Pitcher- His critique of the work primarily focuses on the significance of the recurring thought of mans piggishness or rather greed. Especially when combined to the Captain who has been given the name Wolf. He relates these two animals and shows how their behavior is mirrored throughout the text. • Jr.James A. Papa.- This is an interesting critique because it doesn’t seem to give the clash of Wolf's Social Darwinism and Humphrey Van Weyden's idealism As much importance as the confrontation of the schooner and steamship belonging to Wolf and Death respectfully. He believes the contest of the sail V.S. the steam engine was actually a metaphor for the modernization that was taking place at the time. • Christopher Gair- This critique believes the tale focuses on the position of the intellectual artist in society and how very interestingly we have the writer become a sailor as how it is usually the other way around. It questions the positions each role has in society Jack London author of the sea wolf Courtesy Google images

17. Promotional poster for the sea wolf , the play courtesy Google images Essay Outline • I- Intro One if the major themes toyed with in the fiction the sea wolf is how a man is made. • Thesis- The most prominent thing in shaping who we are is the events that take place in our childhoods.The three characters that most accurately portray this are. • A. Captain Wolf Larsen the brutish intellectual shaped by the roughness of his environment • B. Humphrey van Weyden the philosophical aristocrat who never had to raise a finger to get what he wanted • C. Thomas Mugridge the street urchin who grew to hate those who were born into money and don’t know what it is to suffer II-Body A. Captain Wolf Larsen I- the text calls him a self read man and he curses himself for picking up the books he read as a child which inevitably cursed him to be as thoughtful and introspective as he is II- He grew up on a boat where the reigning attitude was “might makes right” he had no choice but to be strong or die III-because of the way he grew up he has the mind frame that only the strongest survive B. Humphrey Van Weyden I- It has already been said that Humphrey had grew up in the lap of luxury and because of this early in the book we have the text tell us that his very own doctor says he is built like a women II- Because of the fact that Humphrey never had to fight for anything in his life we see that is unwilling to do so until that very life is in danger and he resorts to brandishing his own blade III- We get an insight into the type of person that Humphrey was before the events that take place on the Ghost when we find out that he had acquired the moniker “Sissy Van Weyden”

18. Essay Outline (Contd.) • C. Thomas Mugridge I-our text describes this character as being “oily” when he reveals more about himself we see that even the environment he grew up in was indeed very “oily” II- Cooky tells us that’s he's spent half of hid life in and out of hospitals and explains how he can endure such cruel beatings that are given to him and maybe why he has such a lowly opinion of himself. III- during his rant about his childhood it becomes painstakingly obvious that he grew up with absolutely no money and resents those who have it for not working for it as valiantly as he did and truly explains why he has so much anger towards Humphrey. III- Conclusion I- when all this evidence is brought to attention it becomes very obvious that the most prominent thing in shaping who we are is the events that take place in our childhoods II- Captain Wolf Larsen the brutish intellectual shaped by the roughness of his environment III- Humphrey van Weyden the philosophical aristocrat who never had to raise a finger to get what he wanted IIII- Thomas Mugridge the street urchin who grew to hate those who were born into money and don’t know what it is to suffer A schooner the type of ship the ghost was, courtesy Google images

19. Works Cited • The Sea Wolf by Jack London • Gender and genre: nature, naturalism, and authority in 'The Sea-Wolf.' (The Genders of Naturalism). Christopher Gair.         Studies in American Fiction v22.n2 (Autumn 1994): pp131(17). From Student Resource Center - Gold.  • Canvas and Steam: Historical Conflict in Jack London's Sea-Wolf. JR. JAMES A. PAPA.         The Midwest Quarterly 40.3 (Spring 1999): p274(1). From Student Resource Center - Gold.  • The Sea-Wolf: Jack London's swinish title. (Essays).(Critical Essay). Edward W. Pitcher.         ANQ 16.3 (Summer 2003): p42(3). From Expanded Academic ASAP.  Humphrey as depicted in the film The Sea Wolf Courtesy of Google images

20. Class Response…Thursday 1) Respond to Humphrey Van Weyden’s quote below: “handling and directing of many men was good for me. It developed what little executive ability I possessed, and I was aware of a toughening or hardening which I was undergoing and which could not be anything but wholesome for “Sissy” Van Weyden. One thing I was beginning to feel, and that was that I could never again be quite the same man I had been. While my faith in human life still survived, Wolf Larsen’s destructive criticism, he had nevertheless been a cause of change…He had opened up for me the world of the real, of which I had known practically nothing and from which I had always shrunk” (102).

21. Chapter 16 - 18 The Sea Wolf Julian Nodarse Period 1 April 24, 2007 Courtesy of Yahoo! images

22. Chapter 15 • In this chapter, the fight of Wolf Larsen against the crew continued on and he then managed to get out of the crowd. Every man participated in this tussle except for Louis. The men who did take part of this event were all bruised up. Louis knew what might of happened in the future if Wolf Larsen got any better. He said “ just wait till he gets a glimpse iv yer mugs to-morrow, the gang if ye” (97) • Wolf Larsen went back to his room and called for Humphrey to come and try and heal him from his wounds. As he made his way to the room, Kelly stopped right in front of him and warned him not to say anything of who were the people that were in the fight(98-99).

23. Chapter 15 • When Humphrey arrived at Wolf Larsen’s room, Humphrey was surprised to see the captain’s body without a shirt. He described to him that “God made him well” (99). He was really expressionist with Wolf Larsen’s body. He described how his muscles moved with such wonderful flow and that it was perfect. • As Humphrey was curing him, they were talking about why did God make us and why were we not perfect in Wolf Larsen’s belief. At the end, Wolf Larsen was grateful for all of Hump’s hospitality. As an effect, Humphrey received the title as “Mr. Van Weyden” (100-101).

24. Chapter 16 • In this chapter, Humphrey Van Weyden was used to the whole idea of being in the ship. He received more respect as time went by. They used to call him “Hump” but now they give him respect. Wolf Larsen explained that he received his sea legs and that he has learned how to use them. (London 101-102) There is a different style of language that is used on ships or sailor to sailor than on land. In the ship, the sailors say someone has their sea legs when they are experienced and when they know what they are doing. • The conditions on the ship were terrible. “ It was the little things by which he kept the crew worked up to the verge of madness. I have seen Harrison called from his bunk to put properly away a misplaced paintbrush” (102). From this little detail you can tell how the personality of Wolf Larsen is. He is very particular and picky about being all clean and tidy, just how you have seen him call Harrison to put away the paintbrush. Also, Wolf Larsen’s behavior of the little things is what makes the people on the boat go crazy. Courtesy of Yahoo! Images

25. Chapter 16 • Over time, the people on the boat have gotten mad at Wolf Larsen. Leach and Johnson were the two men who especially did not like Wolf Larsen. They came into many conflicts and Wolf Larsen could have had the chance of killing them. Humphrey Van Wyden kept wondering why he did not kill him. In response, Wolf Larsen said “Man is a natural gambler, and life is the biggest stake he can lay. The greater the odds, the greater the thrill. Why should I deny myself the joy of exciting Leach’s soul to fever-pitch?” (104). Wolf Larsen explains that life is the greatest thing to gamble and that it gives great thrill. From this you can see how Wolf Larsen views life. He views it as a game that you have to risk your life to get thrills. If you “lose” the game then you lose your life. • Humphrey talked to Leach and Johnson to try to find out what they are thinking. Leach thinks that he will not last on the ship and that he would die there. Leach was telling Humphrey to tell his father “I lived to be sorry for the trouble I brought him and the things I done, and-and just tell him ‘God bless him’ for me” (106). Even though Leach was somewhat aggressive towards Wolf Larsen, he feels compassionate towards his family and people he loves. He knows he might die and he wanted to tell his father that he loved him all along. Courtesy of Yahoo! images

26. Chapter 16 • At the end of the chapter, two sea men tried to escape the ship. Harrison and Kelly tried to make an escape by rowing one of the small boats the ship had out to a shore. Their efforts were worthless because they could not escape. Two other sea men, Henderson and Smoke, shot Harrison and Kelly’s oars which did not allow them to move any further. At last, another boat towed the two men back to the ship (105-106) Escaping from the ship is like escaping from a prison. The men tried to escape but failed. It was not a very good plan to use the boats but, maybe the two men were desperate to leave the ship and their focus on escaping blocked there minds of thinking of a good and clever way to escape. • Finally, Humphrey had realized that where he is at the moment Is not a very good place and that there was no hope for him to get back home. He “leaned upon the rail and gazed longingly into the sea with the certainty that sooner or later they should be sinking down, down, through the cool green depths of its oblivion (107). The misery of the people on board the ship has rubbed off on Humphrey. He thought that he was going to drown there in the ocean and that he would not go home. At first he thought there was a chance of him going home but, with what he says, it feels as if he does not think he will anymore. Courtesy of Yahoo! images

27. Chapter 17 • This chapter starts off with the crew hunting down seals. They managed to travel to Japan to hunt for them. They were chasing some seals and Wolf Larsen sent the crew on six boats to try and hunt them down. The only ones on the ship were Humphrey, Wolf Larsen and the cook. • By this time, Humphrey noticed that he had “ learned to look more closely at life as it was lived, to recognize that there were such things as facts in the world, to emerge from the realm of mind and idea and to place certain values on the concentrate and objective phases of existence” (108). I think this quote is important to recognize how Humphrey’s thoughts changed over time and how he realized that your mind is not the only thing you need to survive in the world. He had realized that in order to perceive a goal or a belief, you have to put that idea into practice, not just have it in your mind all the time. • The weather that was coming ahead was looking bad. Humphrey says “There was something ominous about it, and in intangible ways one was made to feel that the worst was about to come”(108-109). You can foreshadow that a storm is approaching with these clues. Courtesy of Yahoo! images

28. Chapter 17 • As the crew on the Ghost kept sailing, they approached the storm. They were trying to find the sailors who went in search of the seals. There was a point that Wolf Larsen almost gave up right after he said to expect “ all hell to break loose” (112-113) With what you hear him say that he wants to give up, you might question Wolf Larsen’s personality. Maybe he is quitter, or he wants to sound tough but at the same time cowardly. • Sooner or later, they found the first boat that contained the sailors Kerfoot, Oofty- Oofty and Kelly (115). The second boat they found had the sailors Jock Horner, Louis, and Johnson (116). The third boat was bottom side up and did not contain anyone (116-117). Courtesy of Yahoo! images

29. Chapter 17 • The fourth boat was spotted by Oofty-Oofty. In it was Henderson. Holyoak and Williams were supposed to be on the boat too, but they were not. Henderson made it on the ship but the boat was still on the sea and Wolf Larsen wanted to recover it. “Horner and Kerfoot were vainly protesting against the attempt” (117). Here you can see that Wolf Larsen is a stingy person and that he uses all his and the crew’s effort to just recover a boat in the middle of a storm. • Right after that moment, Kelly had been reported missing in the ship(117). • Humphrey got real tired and he could not do any more in trying to help the crew sail in the storm. He began crying tears of pain and he “gave up like a woman and rolled upon the deck in the agony of exhaustion” (118) • Thomas Mugridge broke three ribs and Humphrey had to read on that to try and help him get better. • At the end Humphrey says “I don’t think it was worth getting a broken boat for Kelly’s life.” in response to that, Wolf Larsen said “Kelly didn’t amount to much” (119). Wolf Larsen is saying that Kelly was not very helpful. He does not give much importance to his crew which is what helps him move the ship all over the sea. Here you can see how cruel Wolf Larsen really is to his crew. Courtesy of Yahoo! images

30. Chapter 18 • In this chapter, the storm starts to fade away and they start sailing north. They encountered sea fog as they kept sailing. Thomas Mugridge has healed again and began to limp as he was walking on the ship. Tensions grew on the ship towards Johnson and Leach. “ They looked for their lives to end with the end of the hunting season; while the rest of the crew lived the lives of dogs and were worked like dogs by their pitiless master” (119-120) On the ship, there are two fates. One is to die while the other is to be treated badly by the cruel captain. With what the novel says, you can have the feeling that the ship is not a good place to be. • At this point, Humphrey feels a lot more comfortable in the ship because he “was learning more and more seamanship; and one clear day, I had the satisfactionof running and handling the Ghost and picking up the boats myself” (120) Humphrey had gotten a lot of experience from the crew, so he managed to know more things about the ship and about sailing at the sea. This goes to show you how he slowly changes from his state of only using his mind to actually doing things and getting better too. • They kept sailing and found a second herd of seals. The crew started gun firing the seals. At that time, Leach asked Humphrey how far are they from Yokohama. They were 500 miles away from that place. The next day, it has been reported that Leach, Johnson and a boat was missing. The beds, food and water were missing too. From this you can guess that they most probably escaped Courtesy of Google images

31. Chapter 18 • Now, Wolf Larsen wants to find them. He makes the whole crew be on lookout for the ship in the middle of the fog. As time passed by, they found a boat on the water. The boat was not Leach and Johnson, it was five people. Four were men and there was one woman. The crew managed to pick up the boat and the people in it. The personality of the crew changed since there was a woman present. Smoke said “ May I never shoot a seal again if that ain’t a woman!” (122). You can see the things that men do to win over a woman. In involves sacrificing your own needs for the sake of the woman. • Wolf Larsen commanded Humphrey to make a room for the woman. He was helping her into the room, and he held out his hand to grab the woman’s hand. Humphrey was “prepared for her arm to crumble in his grasp” (123). Women’s structure are very gentle. Humphrey used to live with women, apparently he forgot how they were and how gentle they are in the time that has passed in the ship. Her hand was so gentle that it felt like if it was going to crumble. Courtesy of Google images

32. Chapter 18 • When she got accommodated, she was getting sleepy. Humphrey was explaining to her to expect the worst from the captain. This lowered the lady’s hopes because she started to sound faint and she was about to collapse. At the end, she went to sleep on Wolf Larsen’s bunk pillow in her own room (124). I do not think Humphrey was very sensitive with her. He told her every bad thing that might happened instead of making her feel better. Courtesy of Google images

33. Connection to the Author • Jack London himself was a sailor and a seaman. This whole book is based on that which tells you that one of Jack London’s motivation for writing this book is so that he can tell about his experiences of the seas through the eyes of a fictional character. • Jack London believed in “the slave mass” which is some sort of philosophy created by Nietzsche. He incorporated this belief into this book by talking about how one big crew works together under the command of one main captain. • Jack London also had sympathy for the working class. We can see this with the way that Humphrey acts towards the sailors. Humphrey did not like them at first by there appearance and ungrateful actions. He judged a person by their acts of kindness just how Johnson helped pick up Humphrey in the beginning of the book.

34. Literary Criticism • This first criticism is by Frederic Taber Cooper. He explains that the book The Sea Wolf contains themes of “human passions, hatred, cruelty, or revenge, and making his reader shrink and wince. You read a book like The Sea Wolf very much as you gaze upon some ghastly accident, in a sort of horrified fascination that holds your eyes against your will. His technique is not always of the best; but he is always emphatically, splendidly, triumphantly himself. ( The Individual Note : ‘The Game’) • The next criticism is by Carl Sandburg. He explains that it was “wholesome and nutritious”. He says that there is a lesson that people miss but he does not explain that lesson. He talks about how Wolf Larsen is Carl explains that “What gets in his way goes overboard” (Jack London: A Common Man) Clip Art

35. Literary Criticism • This criticism is by William Lyon Phelps. He talks about how he uses description to lay out his setting. He talked about how Jack London described the beginning chapters with the icy water, the seal hunts and love scenes. Phelps says “he has the true gift of style” (Twentieth Century American Novelists). • The next criticism is by Servanne Woodward. He talks about how Jack London uses animals and their ferociousness. How people in his novels have some type of wild “monster” inside of them (The Nature of the Beast in Jack London's Fiction). • This last criticism explains how the character of Wolf Larsen is grand and such an interesting character. The criticism also praises Humphrey in his improvement of being an “upper-class sissy to full-blooded manhood" (Jack London). Clip Art

36. Bloom’s Taxonomy Questions • Level 1 : Knowledge 1) How many people did the crew find in the boat in the fog? 2) Who was it that tried to escape the Ghost in chapter 16? Who was the second person? 3) What happened after the crew rescued the boat with the woman? • Level 2 : Comprehension 4) What do you think could of happened next if the crew found Johnson’s and Leach’s boat? 5)Who do you think is to blame for Leach to have such aggressive behavior towards Wolf Larsen? Clip Art

37. Bloom’s Taxonomy Questions • Level 3 : Application 6) Do you know another instance where Humphrey is seen as being “wimpy”? 7) What questions would you ask Wolf Larsen of the way the crew feels about him or about his attitude? • Level 4 : Analysis 8) How was this madness in the ship similar to other books we have read in this class? 9) What was the problem with taking in the broken boat from the sea? 10) What do you see as other possible outcomes if the crew did not find any boats in the sea? Clip Art

38. Bloom’s Taxonomy Questions • Level 5 : Synthesis 11)Can you see a possible solution to settle the dispute between Wolf Larsen and Leach? 12) Can you design a new way of traveling over the seas? What would it be? • Level 6 : Evaluation 13) Judge the value that the crew has on an overall scale. 14) How would you feel if you were in Humphrey’s position? 15) Do you believe in love at first sight? Why or why not? Do you think that is what is happening to the crew and the woman? 16) Do you think sailing with a big crew is a good or bad thing? Why?

39. Research/Analytical Paper Outline • Thesis Statement: Apparent throughout the novel, Humphrey’s character is displayed as having a struggle with himself by means of challenging the manhood that is contained in his male instinct, being humiliated on a personal judgment, being left in a state of dishonor. I: Before we can understand how Humphrey’s struggle is being challenged, we must acknowledge what he is having trouble with, Jack London displays in the novel what is a person’s manhood through the means of Humphrey’s thoughts. A. London’s portrayal of a person’s manhood can be compared to the way someone keeps their pride, not allowing that pride to be crushed, tempted or opposed, while those that do allow this to happen cause an alter ego to emerge from ones self and control our actions in undignified ways. 1. Throughout the novel, you can see that some people cannot control their manhood, allowing their manhood to overrun their bodies and cause destruction due to their short patience and temper. 2. Conversely, certain people in the novel are not like this, they control their manhood from overrunning their body, allowing themselves to control the situation at that instant and continue living their life, not being destructive. 3. Lastly, others are struggling with a grand effort with their manhood, keeping their pride, not letting the manhood loose, trying to make themselves feel better, wasting a great amount of energy which eventually leads to letting the manhood loose.

40. Research/Analytical Paper Outline • II: Humphrey’s struggle is first introduced by his ideas and thoughts of being scrawny, which displays his insecurity of his manhood, since he is among tougher bigger men, he does not feel secure of his being. • A. London shows the weakness that people have of their manhood, in this case Humphrey, by uncovering the thoughts, beliefs and ideas of having a struggle with himself by means of challenging that manhood inside him. 1. Humphrey does not feel comfortable in his position at the moment in the ship, he feels inferior to the crew in terms of being stronger and more efficient in the ship. 2. He is helpless by himself on the Ghost trying to control his manhood so that it would not get out of hand while struggling to show that he is indeed useful and manly enough though it is being challenged by the tasks that he receives from the captain. 3. Humphrey eventually overwhelms himself and cannot take any more commands from the captain, which causes his insecurity to rise while his manhood is being taunted and ashamed.

41. Research/Analytical Paper Outline • III: Humphrey cannot bear with the captain’s orders hence, his manhood is being humiliated on a personal judgment, in a routine manner which causes him to sink in a state of dishonor of himself. • . A. In consequence of manhood being ashamed and pride being lost, people have the power to try and fix the problem that is causing that decrease in manhood. Therefore coming to the next step that Humphrey is facing his manhood of being ashamed of himself. 1. Jack London expresses Humphrey’s humiliation of his manhood by his recollection of events that had already happened. 2. This recollection of events lead Humphrey into thinking if what he had already done be considered building up his manhood. 3. While he is trying to determine if all his efforts are useless or not, he tries to improve himself by being useful around the ship, allowing his pride to increase which in turn eases his struggle with his manhood. Concluding Statement: Undoubtedly, Humphrey Van Weyden does have a struggle with his manhood. You can see how it affects him and in what terms does it affect him, which in turn leads to him being ashamed and left in a state of dishonor. Despite all the turmoil that Humphrey struggled with, other people go through it too sooner or later and it is up to that person to control it, make it get better, or let it all out.

42. Works Cited • London, Jack The Sea Wolf , April 24, 2007 • Images are from Google images and Yahoo! Images, and Microsoft clip art, April 24, 2007. • Criticism from Galenet.com April 24, 2007

43. Class Response…Friday 1) Respond to exchange between Larsen, Maude and Hump (148-149).

44. The Sea WolfChapters 19 – 24 Diana Hernandez April 25th, 2007 Period 5 Language Arts Mrs. Contreras

45. All about the authorJack London Courtesy of Google Images!

46. Jack London’s real name was John Griffith Chaney. • London was born in San Francisco, California in the year 1876. • London’s mother was Flora Wellman and his father was William Chaney, who was a major figure in American astrology. • London was raised by Virginia Prentiss, who was a motherly figure to him in his childhood. • London’s mother remarried to John London and the family moved to a bay area; later on settling in Oakland. • London, in his teenage years, worked near the ocean. He worked in the fish industry.

47. London sailed the Pacific on a sealing ship. This may have been one of the many inspirations for his book, The Sea Wolf. • When he became 19, he went back to high school. There he got involved with socialism. (Known as the Boy Socialist of Oakland). • The Call of the Wild was the novel that brought London indescribable fame. • London traveled the Pacific for two years from 1907-1909 in a small boat and learned a lot about Polynesian and Melanesian cultures. Again, this could be another influence for The Sea Wolf. • London was one of the first writers to have one of their published books become a famous movie, such as The Sea Wolf.

48. London was an autodidact, meaning his ideas and thoughts lacked precision and were sometimes expressed incorrectly. • London was truly in favor of woman’s rights even though he was a bit protective of the women in his family; including his wife, Bess Maddern, and his two daughters, Joan and Bess. • An important theme in his life was individualism. • When London was in his mid-30s, he developed kidney disease. He died in the year 1916.

49. Plot Sequence Chapter 19 • Humphrey van Weydon was on deck with the rest of the crew knowing that something important would happen when Leach and Johnson would be brought up to deck being dragged (London 125). • Wolf Larsen had been talking with the rescued men, which included three oilers and an engineer in the middle of the ship (125). • Another survivor was a lady who no one knew who she was. Larsen asked Weydon and he felt this weird sensation. Weydon told Larson she was sleeping and is waiting to hear the news from the captain (126). • The sunken vessel’s name was Mail Steamer. It was originally headed to Yokohama and the survivors were in the sea for four days waiting for someone to rescue them (126).

50. Plot Sequence Chapter 19 • A promise was made between Larsen and Weydon. Larsen proposed a compact saying that if he didn’t attempt to kill Leach and Johnson, Weydon wouldn’t attempt to kill him. They both made that compromise. (Stoker 127). • Larsen kept playing games with Johnson and Leach. They were both extremely frightened of him and felt death near. Larsen would play with them to teach them a lesson, according to Weydon (128-129). • Weydon swore he had seen the boat’s bottom show black in a breaking crest. The crew acted as if they hadn’t seen anything. They were completely shocked and stunned (130). • Weydon realized he had to take care of the woman who was rescued. It was his duty and responsibility to not let Larsen touch her at all (131).