11R Homework January 21-24, 2014

Monday: Review the novels you’ve read to prepare for the Regents exam: make the chart, as discussed in class: due next Tuesday.

Tuesday: STUDY FOR THE REGENTS EXAM!!

Wed.: STUDY FOR THE REGENTS EXAM!!

Thurs.: STUDY FOR THE REGENTS EXAM!!

Fri.: STUDY FOR THE REGENTS EXAM!!

Regents ReviewNovels

9th grade-11th grade

How do I write a critical lens essay? Interpret or explain what you think the quote means.

Then, pick TWO books (underline titles) that support what you said the quote means. [Don’t forget the authors!!!].

Agree or disagree with your interpretation of the quote.

Choose supporting examples that are literary terms and elements (themes, conflicts, POV, setting, etc.) that best help you prove your opinion of the quote.

Use your examples to prove your interpretation of the quote. YOU MUST HAVE TWO EXAMPLES PER BOOK!!!

BE SPECIFIC WITH SPECIFIC DETAILS FROM THE NOVEL, PLAY, OR MEMOIR!!!

REMEMBER: SPECIFIC DETAILS….SPECIFIC DETAILS…SPECIFIC DETAILS from each work.

Critical Lens Quotes “Courage is grace under pressure.” - Hemingway

“Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.” - Aristophanes

“Do What you can with what you have.” - T. Roosevelt

“Difficulties are things that show what men are.” - Epicetus

“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” - Conrad

“Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.” - Burns

“If everyone were clothed in integrity, if every, heart were just … the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.” - Moliere

“All conflict in literature is, in its simplest form, a struggle between good and evil.” - Author Unknown

Of Mice and Men, John SteinbeckSetting Characters Conflicts Themes Symbols

Ranch

California

1930s

Lennie

George

Curley

Curley’s Wife

Candy (& dog)

Crooks

Slim

Carlson

Red dressed girl

Aunt Clara

M v. M

Curley picks fight w/ Len and Len crushes his hand

M v. Soc:

After Len killed CW, he was going to be killed by the ranch hands

M v. Nature:

Lennie trying not to kill the puppy

People are lonely even if surrounded by a crowd. (C’s Wife: no one talks to her)

People don’t realize what they have until it is gone (G tells L how his life will be better if he’s gone. It is not better.

Rabbits: Lennie’s dream/ his simplicity

Ranch G/L want to own: symbolizes freedom/ American Dream

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

Setting

Verona,

Italy

Mantua

Characters:

Romeo

Lord/Lady Montague

Benvolio

Juliet

Nurse

L/L Capulet

Tybalt

Mercutio

The Prince

Count Paris

Friar Laurence

Conflicts

M v. Man

Romeo killed Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin and was banished

M v. society:

R & J’s families hate each other so being together is a problem.

M. v. Self

Juliet thinks the Friar might be trying to kill her w/ the potion that will make her seem dead. She decides to drink it anyway.

Themes

Love is blind. R & J are supposed to hate each other b/c they come from enemy families. They, instead, fall in love.

Feuds/lies do not solve problems, they create them. R/J don’t tell their parents they are married. This causes banishment, “death” of Juliet and death of Romeo.

The Odyssey, HomerSetting

Greece / surrounding area

Characters:

Odysseus

Cyclops

Circe

Sirens

Charybdis

Scylla

Penelope

Telemachus

Conflicts

M v M:

O. Battles the Cyclops and outsmarts him.

M v. Self:

Wants to hear Siren song; his men plug ears; he is strapped to mast of ship.

Themes

Don’t let excessive pride take over.

Use your mind/ intelligence to help you out of a tight spot.

Don’t lose hope.

Symbols

The bow of Odysseus

Ithaca (home)

Penelope’s tapestry

Night, Elie WieselSetting Point of View Characters Conflicts Themes

WWII

Sighet, Transylvania

Auschwitz, Poland [concentration/extermination camp]

Buna [sub-camp of A.]

Gleiwitz, Poland [sub-camp of A.]

Buchenwald, Poland [concentration camp]

First person

Controlled language allows events to speak for themselves and is in sharp contrast to the reality about which it speaks.

Wiesel waited 10 years before writing Night.

Eliezer Wiesel: narrator, 14

Chlomo Wiesel: his dad, well respected in Jewish community

Eliezer’s mother

Tzipora: E’s sister

Moche the Beadle: Elie’s religious teacher

Martha: servant of Wiesels

Mdme Schaechter: prophet = screams about fire.

Man v. Man: Rabbi El.’s son leaves him to ensure his own survival

Bread thrown on the train pits each man vs. the other

Man v. Self: Elie losing his faith in God

Man v. Society: Mosche warns them that they are in mortal danger. They ignore him, and face the conditions in the camps.

Faith is important in times of desolation.

Extreme hatred, if unchecked, can result in horror.

If good people stand by and do nothing, evils will abound.

Others?

Characters, continued

Dr. Mengele: Nazi, decides who lives and who dies at their camp.Stein of Antwerp: wife Reisal is related to Mrs. WeiselJuliek: plays the violinFranek: another prisonerYossi and Tibi: brothersIdek: Jewish man in charge of their block/ whips Elie for seeing him doing something he shouldn’t have been doing.Akiba Drumer: prisonerZalman: prisonerRabbi Eliahou: very religious / well loved / son abandons him during the run to Gleiwitz.Meir Katz:

Night: Symbols

Fire: Madame Sch. screams that she sees flames and death. It symbolizes their fate once they arrive in the concentration camp. They must work in order to avoid the flames of death.

Night = darkness. This novel is a period of darkness, not only for Elie but also for all the Jews.

Nazis: symbolize the hatred of one group of people toward another.

Moshe the Beadle symbolizes unused knowledge.

Mr. Wiesel: symbolizes Ellie’s will to live. When he dies, Ellie’s will is broken.

Themes, more

Maintaining faith in a benevolent God is difficult to do in times of continued tragedy.

People turn on each other when they, themselves, are abused.

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Setting Characters Conflicts Symbols Themes

WWII

Deserted, idyllic island

In the Pacific Ocean

Point of View

Third Person, omniscient narrator

Foreshadowing

Simon’s convo w/ pig’s head = his death

Rocks & Roger

Ralph

Piggy

Simon

Sam ’N Eric

Percival

Henry

Jack

Roger

Bill

Robert

Maurice

The Little ’uns

Birthmark Boy

Naval officer

Parachutist

Man v. Man

Man v. Self

Man v. Society

Man v. Nature

Piggy’s glasses: intelligence

The conch: order /power / civilization

The island: Eden / perfect place

Face Paint: hides faces to allow for savagery

The Beast: fear / themselves

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely:

Jack gains power, then steals fire & P’s glasses, beats a kid randomly, and sets fire to the island to hunt down & kill Ralph.

At his heart, man is a beast.

The boys have everything they need to survive and have fun. Yet they still have the same problems the adults have. Others?

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, William ShakespeareSetting Characters Conflicts Symbols ThemesRome

44BC

Point of View

It’s a play; there isn’t one

Characters:

Soothsayer: warns JC of death on 3/15/44

Artemidorus: teacher/ writes warning letter.

Caesar: wants to be emperor.

Antony: loyal friend of JC/ turns crowd vs. B and starts a war.

Calpurnia: JC’s wife/ has dream of JCs death

Brutus: becomes leader of conspirators/ wants to kill JC b/c he fears JC will become a dictator.

Portia: B’s wife/ to prove her worth, stabs self in leg/ kill self by swallowing hot coals.

Cassius: despises JC/ leader of the conspiracy, convinces Brutus to join.

Casca: stabs JC 1st

Man v. Man

Conspirators kill Caesar before he gains too much power.

Man v. Self: Brutus: should I kill Caesar or not?

Man v. Society

weather

Portents and omens

Eagles replaced by crows before battles at end

The will: deception used by Antony to sway the crowd away from Brutus.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely:

Antony, Octavius & Lepidus create a hit list of 300 Romans

Language/Words have the power to manipulate and/or inspire.

Antony’s funeral oration

Don’t be mindless sheep. Think about what leaders are saying and why they are saying it.

Others?

Themes, continued

Power can go to one’s head: Antony takes power and abuses it with JC’s will/ also he makes a “hit list” of people to kill once the conspirators have left and he, Octavius, and Lepidus have formed the 2nd Triumvirate.

The Color of Water, James McBrideSetting Point of View Characters Conflicts Themes

New York: Brooklyn, Queens

Virginia

Kentucky (summers / James “bad” period to stay w/ his sister Jack)

Oberlin, Ohio

Wilmington, Delaware

First person (2 narrator)

Andrew Dennis McBride: 1st husband

TatehMamehSamDee Dee

Chicken Man: his death spurs James to get back on the “right track”

James McBride: main character/ narrator

Ruth McBrideJordan

Hunter Jordan: 2nd husband

Peter: her 1st boyfriend

Frances: childhood friend

Man vs. self: James struggles to identify who he is /Ruth changes who she is when she moves to NY

Man vs. Man: Ruth vs. her dad who sexually molests her.

Finding yourself through mistakes, struggles and hardships.Ex: James questions the color difference b/t himself and his mother so he doesn’t understand who he is when he is younger, but eventually he investigates his mother’s past and discovers who she is

Themes continued

When Ruth married her first husband, her family disowned her. So she had to find her own path through life with her husband and children

She also changes her religion to one that is more relevant to her and her new life.

Symbols

Color: what color is God? Is he black or white? The minister says he’s all colors / James’s brother then says he’s gray/ James’s mother says God is the color of water = water has no color.

Bicycle: her way of grieving/ escape from grief after husband dies. James is embarrassed b/c it showed she was different from others.

Names (changing them): change of identity. Rachel when in U.S. / Ruth when she moved to N.Y.

Foreshadowing

Ruth’s feelings for her father are cold, we find out it’s b/c he molested her.

Macbeth, William Shakespeare

Setting Characters Conflicts Themes Symbols

Scotland,Circa 1100 CE

MacbethLady Macbeth

DuncanMalcolmDonalbain

BanquoFleance

MacduffLady Macd.

Lennox

The WitchesHecate

Man v. Man Macbeth v. Duncan, Banquo, Macduff

Man v. Self Macb pondering whether or not to kill Duncan

Man v. society Macb not secure in his position as king

Appearances can be deceiving.

Lust for power can lead to loss of humanity.

We must accept responsibility for actions.

Our future is beyond our control.

The crown

Bloody Dagger

Blood

Witches

In Cold Blood, Truman Capote

Setting Characters Conflicts Themes Symbols

Kansas, 1959

Mexico, Las Vegas, Florida

The Clutters:Herb, Bonnie Nancy, Kenyon

The killers:Richard Eugene HickcockPerry Smith

The detectives:Alvin DeweyHarold NyeClarence DuntzRoy Church

Others:Bobby RuppSusan KidwellNancy EFloyd WellsWillie JayBarbara Johnson

Man v. Man Dick/Perry vs. the Clutters

Man v. Self Perry may not have wanted to kill the Clutters

Man v. Society Dick/Perry and those who want them to get the death penalty

People do things as a result of their upbringing (nurture) rather than as a result of their nature.

The death penalty should not be a means of punishment for violent criminals.

The mattress box

The yellow bird in Perry dream

Willie Jay

“Sophisticated” vocabulary

A lot, many: a plethora, multitudinous, an abundance

A few, some: hardly any, several

Lost: was thwarted, defeated, foiled

Man v. man: external struggle / turmoil

Man v. self: internal struggle / turmoil

Important: momentous, significant, essential

Thematically, metaphorically, symbolically

grapple, condemned, spawned, cowardly, mutilated, exterminated,

vindicated, heroically, valiantly, perseverance, vapid, sangfroid, juxtaposed

malarkey, pivotal, apocryphal, counterproductive,

moreover, furthermore, consequently, culmination,

theoretically, simultaneously, vivid [ly], skillfully,

protagonist, antagonist,

fabricated, foundational, enlightened,

unruly, arduous, inane,

emancipated, liberated, proclaim, decapitated, cognizant, adversity,

propensity, enhances, fosters, engender,