CITR - Warm-up Correct the following sentences

1. CITR - Warm-upCorrect the following sentences • He had a piercing on his nose, It was obvious that thing like earring wasn’t his style. 2. By his shows, he always want to take attention on him. He was a exhibitionist. 3. He pretended like he is an exhibitionist and tell all functions of this new machine. 4. After her secret relationship was revealed, her friends have lost their faith in her and ostracized her. 5. He always start a fight and other children don’t want him in their group, they ostracized him from the group.

2. Tuesday, February 16th • CITR Grammar and vocabulary #2 • Share Pastiche • Salinger Presentation • Close reading of first chapter and discussion of Holden • Homework: Find five quotes for assigned chunk that helps define Holden.

3. Review of Verb Tense To Walk • Simple Present: They walk • Present Perfect: They have walked • Simple Past: They walked • Past Perfect: They hadwalked • Future: They will walk • Future Perfect: They will havewalked

4. Note: Problems in sequencing tenses usually occur with the perfect tenses, all of which are formed by adding an auxiliary verb like be, can, do, may, must, ought, shall, will, has, have, had.

5. Present Perfect • Present Perfect: Past participle with has or have. Action began in the past, but has continued to the present. 1. Betty taught for ten years. (simple past) 2. Betty hastaught for ten years (present perfect) 1. John did his homework. He can go to the movies. 2. If John hasdone his homework, he can go to the movies.

6. Past Perfect Past Perfect: The action is in the past, but the action has been completed before another one. • John raised vegetables and later sold them (past) • John sold vegetables that he hadraised (past perfect) • Renee washed the car when George arrived. (simple past) 2. Renee hadwashed the car when George arrived (past perfect)

7. Future Perfect • Future Perfect: The action will have been completed at a specified time in the future. • Saturday I will finish my homework. (simple future) 2. By Saturday noon, I will havefinished my housework. (future perfect)

8. The importance of maintaining tense in a sentence. • 1. The ocean contains rich minerals that washed down from rivers and streams. • Contains is present tense, referring to a current state; washed down is past, but should be present (wash down) because the minerals are currently continuing to wash down.

9. 2. About noon the sky darkened, a breeze sprang up, and a low rumble announces the approaching storm. Darkened and sprang up are past tense verbs; announces is present but should be past (announced) to maintain consistency within the time frame. Corrected: About noon the sky darkened, a breeze sprang up, and a low rumble announced the approaching storm.

10. 3. Yesterday we had walked to school but later rode the bus home. Had walked is past perfect tense but should be past to maintain consistency within the time frame (yesterday); rode is past, referring to an action completed before the current time frame. Corrected: Yesterday we walked to school but later rode the bus home.

12. Early Life Early Life • Jerome David Salinger was born in Manhattan on New Year’s Day in 1919 • His Father was a prosperous Jewish importer of cheese and his mother was Scotch-Irish, who was also Jewish but had converted when she married his father. • He had one older sister named Doris. She died in 2001. • Similarly to Holden, he grew up in a nice apartment on Park Avenue. • In his childhood he was called Sonny. • Attended McBurney school on Upper West Side until he was kicked out.

13. Preparatory School and Valley Forge Military Academy (1937 - 1938) He was flunked out of McBurney School and was sent to Valley Forge Military Academy. He was happy to get away from his over protective mother. He was interested in drama and also began to write stories “under the covers, with the aid of a flashlight.”

14. Education Started his freshman year at New York University in 1936, but dropped out the following spring. He was sent to Vienna, Austria to learn about the meat-importing business. He left Vienna shortly before it was taken over by Germany in 1938. He attended Ursinus College in Pennsylvania for one semester.

15. Story Magazine and Whit Burnett Salinger decided to take an evening writing class at Columbia University taught by Whit Burnett. According to Burnett, Salinger was not very productive until the end of the semester when he wrote three short stories. Burnett published Salinger’s first story in Story Magazine.

16. “The Young Folks” “You know something, Edna said abruptly, you remind me a lot of this boy I used to go around with last summer. I mean the way you look and all. And Barry was your build almost exactly. You know. Wiry.”

17. “Little Oona’s hopelessly in love with little Oona.”

18. The New Yorker In 1941, Salinger began submitting stories to The New Yorker, a literary magazine. They rejected three of his short stories including one titled, “I went to School with Adolf Hitler.”

19. The Creation of Holden Caulfield “Slight Rebellion off Madison” was a short story about a young teenager with pre-war jitters. It was accepted by The New Yorker in December of 1941. It did not appear in the magazine until 1946.

20. WWII The New Yorker decided not to publish “Slight Rebellion off of Madison” because of the Pearl Harbor attack on the United States. Salinger was drafted into the Army slightly after the US entered WWII.

21. WWII Salinger was active at Utah Beach on D-Day and in the Battle of the Bulge.

22. The Emotional Effects of War “You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live.”

23. Influences “Jesus, what a helluva talent”

24. The Young Folks In 1946, after his failure to his first wife Sylvia, Whit Burnett agreed to help Salinger publish a collection of short stories through Story Press’s publishing company.

25. “A Perfect Day for a Bananafish” Hunting Hat When Salinger submitted this story to The New Yorker it was immediately accepted for publication The New Yorker signed Salinger to a contract that allowed them the right of first refusal to any of all of his future stories.

26. The Glass Family Less Zooey Seymour Bessie Buddy Franny Walt Waker Beatrice - actually a girl.

27. Hollywood Salinger sold the movie rights for the story “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut,” in the hopes that it would make a good movie.

28. The Catcher in the Rye Published July 16th, 1951 Spent thirty weeks on the NYT Bestseller List

29. Plot Overview Holden Caulfield is kicked out of preparatory school and instead of returning home, he heads to New York City. Holden visits different locations throughout the city and interacts with a variety of different characters as he tries to deal with the pressures of society and adulthood.

30. The Catcher Cult The counterculture book for adolescents that was a manual for teen angst and rebellion.

31. Banned Book List "In 1978 parents in Issaquah, Washington, became upset with the rebellious views expressed in the novel by Holden Caulfield and with the profanity he uses. The woman who led the parents' group asserted that she had counted 785 uses of profanity, and she alleged that the philosophy of the book marked it as part of a Communist plot that was gaining a foothold in the schools, 'in which a lot of people are used and may not even be aware of it.' The school board voted to ban the book, but the decision was later reversed when the three members who had voted against the book were recalled due to illegal deal-making. In 1979, the Middleville, Michigan, school district removed the novel from the required reading list after parents objected to the content."

32. “The only person who might have ever played Holden Caulfield would have been JD Salinger”

33. Religious Beliefs For many years Salinger practiced Zenn Budhism After writing Catcher, in 1952, he discovered Ramakrishna's Advaita Vendanta Hinduism

34. The Recluse Once popularity grew for CITR, Salinger began to remove himself from society. He moved from New York to Cornish, New Hampshire. New Hampshire New York He became friends with local high school students who used to come over and listen to records.

35. Marriageand Family June, 1955 Salinger married a Radcliff student named Claire Douglas. They had two children, Margaret and Matt.

36. Franny and Zooey Salinger published Franny and Zooey in 1961

37. Joyce Maynard In 1972, Salinger had an affair with Joyce Maynard. He was 53 and she was 18. She was already a writer for Seventeen Magazine. Wrote an article called “An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life,” which made her famous

38. Influence on Society • Mark David Chapman - assassinated John Lennon. • Influenced many writers. • “I almost always write about young people.”

39. Just recently died of natural causes on January 27th • In order to maintain his privacy, there was not a service. • Not at home in the world.

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