Literature

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Plot

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Setting

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Setting

Setting in TO BUILD A FIRE

Creates Conflicts

Influences Character

Helps Create Mood

Serves as a Symbol

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Crossing the Border

Characters

Setting

Conflicts

Resolution

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Literature

Deep Survival

By Laurence Gonzales

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Literature

12 ways to keep you alive

Perceive, believe Stay calm Think/Analyze/plan

Take correct, de-cisive action

Celebrate your successes

Count your bless-ings Play See the beauty

Believe that you will succeed Surrender Do whatever is

necessary Never give up

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Literature

The Bass, the River, and the Sheila mant

Short story by W.DWetherell

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Literature

Setting• Summer• New England Town• River• Narrator: 14 yrs. old at the story’s beginning,

loved fishing for largemouth bass, has a crush on Sheila Mant, spends his time trying to get up enough courage to ask Sheila for a date

• Sheila Mant: 17 yrs. old, family is renting the cottage next to his family’s, doesn’t know the narrator exists, talks constantly of older college boys, upper class

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Literature

Plot

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LiteratureEXPOSITION

– Describes the setting and narrator’s obsession with Sheila (Introduces the internal conflict)

– Describes Sheila and her suitors– Asks Sheila to a dance– Takes his canoe and fishing rod

RISING ACTIONNarrator desperately tries to conceal the rod with the big bass as Sheila chatters away, having absolutely no idea what is going on

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Literature CLIMAXThe narrator cuts the line

FALLING ACTIONSheila rides home with a college boy

ResolutionOlder, reflective narrator says it was a hard choice and a mistake he has never repeated.

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LiteratureCONFLICT

• Internal

– Narrator struggles with his courage to ask Sheila to the dance

– He struggles be-tween his desire to catch the bass and his desire for Sheila

• External– Narrator’s physi-

cal struggle with the bass

– Narrator’s verbal struggle to keep Sheila ignorant of the bass

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Literature

What if everyone were the same?

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Literature

Harrison Bergeron

By Kurt Vonnegut JR.

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Literature

AVERAGE

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Literature

CHARACTER

• Harrison Bergeron• George Bergeron• Hazel Bergeron• Diana Moon Glampers

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Italia

CONFLICT

HARRISON V.S U.S SOCIETY

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Literature

What makes something valuable?What do we take for granted?

1. Everyday Use2. Searching for Summer

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Literature

1. Everyday Use• What makes something Valuable? • an old watch from your father may be precious

to you, but to others, it may be considered as junk

• This “value” is mentioned because in the story, there are conflicts between the mother and two daughters depending on what kind of values they have.

Pages 44~59

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Literature In the story…• Characters: Mom(narrorator), Dee(Wangero), Maggie• Setting: Burnt house, moved to a new house, Dee

comes home with a man named Hakim-a-barber• Main conflict: Dee takes things she likes from the house and when she asks for quilts from grandma, mother refuses b/c she promised to give them to Maggie. Seeing this fight, Maggie says that Dee could have it. She always gives in to her sister. But! Mom takes the quilts and throws them into Maggie’s laps and Dee just goes out furiously.• Resolution: Mom and Maggie smile and spend the rest of the time just enjoying.

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Literature

Reading for information

Alice Walker on Quilting

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Literature

2. Searching For Summer

• What do you take for granted? Air, Water

• This is mentioned b/c in the story, it is a world where there is almost no sunlight. This means that we are taking the sunlight for granted. But since sunlight is so scarce, it is very important for these people

Pages 60~73

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Literature

In the story…• Characters: Lily, Tom, their relatives, Mr. Noakes, Mrs.

Hatching, William(blind son)• Setting/Background: a world where sunlight is very

scarce, Lily and Tom get married and they leave for a hon-eymoon and look for sunlight.

• Plot: On their way, their scooter goes wrong, so they stop. They meet Mr. Noakes, who is the owner of the pub. He makes fun of them because they said they were looking for sun. Lily finds out that an old lady left her bag, and they decide to return it to her. ~~

• Resolution: Tom and Lily decides to leave Mrs. Hatching’s cottage safe and unknown, and they leave from that town.

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THE END.

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Literature

The Johnstown Flood

• Charaters: Gertrude, James Quinn, Aunt Abbie, Libby Hipp, Maxwell McArchren, and the children.

• Setting: Johnstown, 1889• Mood: Urgent → imminent → despair →re-

lieved → disappointed

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Literature

The Johnstown Flood• Plot -The Quinn family starts to run for their lives after seeing the wave

coming. -Aunt Abbie and Libby Hipp went back into the house because

Gertrude did not wanted to put her feet in dirty water.-The three ladies waited in the highest floor of the house praying for

god to save them.-The big house get swallowed by the wave and only Gertrude gets out

of the house. -Trembling from the fear, she met a group of people dangling on the

long roof, but only one man jumped to save her and reached her while the rest of the people met a whirlpool.

-They met a rescue team, and Gertrude’s companion threw her to them.

-A lot of people came to see her, but no one was her family, so she was sent to live with the Metz family.

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Literature

Nine-year –old Amber Colvin Rides Out a Killer Flood in Ohio

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Literature

The race to save Apollo 13

• Characters: • Setting: April of 1970, in the space• Mood: imminent, anxious

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Literature

The race to save Apollo 13• Setting: -After the astronauts go out in the space, they face

a technical problem and decide to cancel the land on the Moon

-Electricity, Oxygen, Water, and heat almost runs out, so the the spaceship combines with the lunar module-life raft.

-The Apollo 13 rotates to start off to the way back to the earth, and the rocket burns out the back side of the moon.

-They made a successful failure.