Finish Reading My Wood on wiki

1. Finish Reading My Wood on wiki

2. Questions over My Wood:Purpose • Why does Forster write about the effects that buying a piece of land has on a person’s character instead of writing about the effects that making money has on a person’s character? How are the two different? • Why does Forster apologize for the effects of owning his property?

3. Questions about My Wood:Audience • What kind of people does Forster seem to think might criticize him for owning property? • How do you think people who own a large amount of property would react to this essay? Would they understand Forster’s concerns?

4. Questions about My Wood:Strategies • Using his own experience as a basis, Forster generalizes about the effects on a person of owning property. Do you think he is justified in making his generalizations? • How does he use the bird and the blackberries to illustrate how his property makes him feel possessive?

5. Satire vs. Parody • With your group: • Define Satire • Define Parody • Identify what is different about the two of them

6. Satire versus Parody • Satire: a piece of writing in which the subject is exposed to ridicule of some kind, in an attempt to provoke or prevent a change; generally political, social, or moral, rarely humorous • Parody: a form of satire that mimics another piece of work in order to ridicule it; generally humorous

7. Goya’s The Inquisition

8. Monty Python’s Inquisition • Netflix: (you will need to install their instant play software, should not be a problem) • Search: Monty Pythons Flying Circus • Click on first result (should have Instant Play as an option) • #15 on right hand side list: The Spanish Inquisition • Time: 1:25-6:30

9. Theodore Geisel, on American Involvement in WWII

10. Unknown Artist, Punch magazine

11. 1941 • Netflix: search 1941 Time: 1:16 to 1:20 or so. • Setup: December, 1941, two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, America is still reeling from the unexpected blow. Cities around the country have set up militias or have called in military groups and are preparing for the full-scale invasion most Americans believe is coming. • In this film, Los Angeles hosts several units of soldiers. A new commander is trying to impress his airplane-crazy girlfriend and commandeers a plane- a captured Japanese plane, to be exact. He, however, does not know how to fly and soon ends up over Los Angeles. The units stationed in LA respond, thinking the plane is a Japanese scout, mobilize, throwing the town into a panic. (what they don’t know is that there is, indeed, a Japanese submarine off the coast preparing to fire on LA)

12. The Star • Log onto the wiki or p. 372 in your book. • Open and read “The Star” by Arthur C. Clarke • No, this is not a satirical piece

13. Questions Over “The Star” Answer the following on your own paper (can be the one you’ve been making notes on all week). Turn in by end of class. You may confer with your group, but you must turn in your own copy. • Purpose • What are the key events in the chain of cause and effect that, as Clarke shows, culminated in the Jesuit’s current predicament? • What is Clarke postulating about the relationship between science and religion through his narrator? • Audience • How much does Clarke assume his readers know about Astrophysics? About religion? • What kind of language and writing style do most readers expect to encounter in science fiction stories? Does this story confirm that expectation? • Strategies • How does Clarke establish that the Jesuit priest seems concerned about the effect the news will have, even on his atheist crewmen? • What is important about the way Clarke has established the narrator’s tone? What effect does it have on the reader’s interpretation of the story?