...It was the summer of 2008 and my family of seven went up north to a rustic cabin on a sparkling blue lake. I woke up one morning to the smell of crisp bacon and fluffy eggs. Logan and I were super excited to go fishing off the dock. We quickly ate our breakfast, so fast that we got yelled at and had minor stomach aches when we were done. After scraping our plates and placing the dishes in the sink, we rushed outside to put our hooks and bobbers on our fishing poles together. To start putting our poles together, we had to get the tackle box with the hooks, bobbers, extra line, and so on. We started putting our poles together and I poked myself with the knife-like hook. Logan was working on his own pole and when he noticed that I accidentally poked myself, he said, “Here, let me help you. Go ask dad where he put the worms and grubs.” As I was walking into the cabin I was stopped by a voice. “We will be out to the dock in a few minutes.” It was my mom. I replied with an okay. While searching for my dad, I glanced at the table and the grubs and the worms were sitting on the table. They smelt like dirt that came from a pond that has not ever been cleaned. With the grubs and worms in my hand, I ran back out to Logan....
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...I, as a second grade girl, had never seen something so gross, foul smelling of something decaying through the crisp summer breeze in Wisconsin, and seeing blood splatter everywhere throughout the little cabin that my family was staying at. Going through the little cabin, finding more disgusting things about it like seeing cockroaches scurrying around the wooden floors. I knew this was going to be the horror of all vacations. Knowing that family had a problem as soon as we got out of the Ford red mini van that this place is a disaster like a tornado went through it. Soon after getting out of the car smell foul scent of the lake water and seeing a sign that was stating, “Beware pregnant, elderly, and young children do not eat the fish that...
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...We were vacationing in the mountains in Dahlonega, Georgia, and had been talking about floating down the river weeks leading up to this trip. I woke up early one morning being tackled by my brother in law, Perry. I looked at my phone and read that it was only 7:00 am. He drug me out of bed and I grumpily followed him down stairs. When we reached the first floor of the cabin, I immediately noticed my sister, Hannah, and I could tell by her expression that she was not too happy about the fact that he had woke her up too. We made breakfast and got ready to head to Walmart so that we could buy some floats. We headed out the door and went and loaded up in the car. After getting lost looking for Walmart, we finally found our way back to the cabin. By that time everyone was awake and upset that we ate all the bacon. When we read up on the cabin before we decided to stay there the site said that there was a bridge just up the road that you can get in the river easily. So, Hannah, Perry and I got in the truck, and daddy took us to the bridge. After ten minutes, we reached at the...
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...Video games today have evolved from the basic structures of Pong and Space Invaders to have complex and film-like narratives. In many ways, games and film are very similar. Despite the similarities, how do video games approach storytelling differently than film, and does this affect the audience? The critical difference between storytelling in games and movies is how each medium engages its audience. Games transform the simple observer to a grand director. With active engagement, versus passive engagement, follows a number of other differences, including interaction, variable outcome, and player agency. The horror game Until Dawn is an applicable example of how the active engagement makes a game stand out from horror films with its outstanding...
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...Stowe decided to share her personal beliefs in what was going on around her by writing; so she gathered first hand accounts, news articles, and personal narratives with the help of her friends and family to begin the writing of her first work, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Harriet’s story was first published in an abolitionist newspaper titled, The National Era in 1851. It was later published as a two volume book in 1852. The novel became a highly controversial subject throughout the United States, selling 300,000 copies within the first year of being published. After reading this eye-opening piece of work, many Northerners began to realize the horrors of slavery and altered their opinions on the matter, while down South, Stowe was given an overwhelming amount of criticism and hatred for writing such lies. All in all, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, contributed to the disunion of the U.S. by having an extremely powerful impact on millions of Northerners and Europeans and their perspectives on the morality and action of slavery; and riled up the firm Southern believers with accusations of untruthful statements...
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...The Impact of American Literature American Literature, which may seem like a worn out topic taught in school, actually contains various vital lessons for all. Writers find an emotional outlet in their work, therefore giving readers an insight into the minds of the authors. This was proven at the time that slave narratives were written, when the authors used their work to share the saddening realities they faced. In many instances, readers have used this literature as a guide to assist in experiences similar to what they are going through. JD Salinger’s, “Catcher in The Rye,” is a good example of how American Literature, past and present, can teach readers empathy and understanding. Furthermore, it aids in the display of the evolved culture in our country. American Literature allows both parties to find an emotional outlet from life experiences, it supplies readers with compassion, and it showcases the changes in our society in a distinct way. There is a common belief that people write what they know, meaning that most writing comes...
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...career by publishing stories and essays for magazines. She went on to write travel books, biographical sketches, poems, children’s books, and a biography book with her sister Catharine. Then eventually wrote her first book, The Mayflower, in 1843. Her best, well-known novel is Uncle Tom's Cabin which portrayed the life of slavery of African-Americans. Discussion Uncle Tom’s Cabin is the initial American sequence of events to contain an African-American leading role. She was an abolitionist and creator. Her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, depicts existence intended for African-Americans below slavery (Elliot, 25-60) she was the daughter of honest spiritual principal Lyman Beecher and Roxana Foote, an extremely spiritual lady. Her mother died when she was only four years old. Her family unit was not wealthy, and consequently, she endured many personal tragedies in her lifetime. Her writing career began when she won a contest for the Western Monthly Magazine. Not long after that, she began hearing of the horrible stories of slavery and after the death of her infant son, she felt compelled to put it down on paper. She wrote her most famous anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, but critics said it was not authentic. She wanted to prove her critics wrong, so she wrote and published her second anti-slavery novel. This novel was called Dred. Stowe was offered a book deal even before she was finished writing her series due to all the attention these...
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...After two years of watching over the family in the cabin and gaining the courage to introduce himself, he expresses to De Lacey, “‘How can I thank you, my best and only benefactor? From your lips first have I heard the voice of kindness directed towards me; I shall be forever grateful; and your present humanity assures me of success with those friends whom I am on the point of meeting’” (Shelley 137). The monster’s initial impression of humanity—one of kindness, warmth, and peace—is tarnished when Felix instinctively attacks the monster as the monster laments, “I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope. But my heart sunk within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained. I saw him on the point of repeating his blow, when, overcome by pain and anguish, I quitted the...
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...Personal Narrative Most people’s goal for a bible camp is not to get in trouble ,but on the other hand I am not like most people. I was not actually planning on getting in trouble ,but if you would have seen my tribe you would understand how we were able to get in trouble and still have much fun. Most grades had a huge spread out from girls in 6th grade to 9th grade. For us though we had about all 9th graders so we were all very wild and fun. Well it was the third day of camp and we were suppose to be having an overnight in the woods ,but since it was raining like crazy we could not. The two Maras, Olivia, Shelby ,and I still made fun out of the rain including making a slip and slide with only the ground and ourselves. We were...
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... |Themes, authors, primary texts |Critical reading | |Feb 8 |Introductions | | |Feb 15 |The Puritan Imagination I |IAS: “New Founde Land” | | |From: Mary Rowlandson: The Sovereignty and Goodness of God. |CHLUS: “Jonathan Edwards […] and the Great Awakening | | |From: John Winthrop: A Model of Christian Charity. | | | |From: Jonathan Edwards: Personal Narrative. | | |Feb 22 |The Puritan Imagination II. |IAS: “New Founde Land” | | |Anne Bradstreet: “The Author to Her Book,” “The Prologue,” “Upon the |CHAP: “Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor” | | |Burning…,” “To My Dear…” | | | |Edward Taylor: “Huswifery,” “Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold,” | | |...
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...issues of slavery by telling his story in his autobiography “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” Douglass uses his personal account to falsify the idyllic American perception of slavery by revealing its dehumanizing effects on both African-Americans and white people by utilizing first-hand evidence,...
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...Choice, Sports, Stem Cell Research, Steroids, Terrorism, Violence, War on Drugs, more... Business - Advertising, Business, Buy Web Sites, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, Sell Websites Education - ADHD, Learning, Philosophy of Education, Privatization, Public Schools, School Violence, School Vouchers, Teaching, Technology and Education, Test and Testing, Writing English Composition Essays - Analitical, Autobiographical, Argument, Cause/Effect, Classification, Compare/Contrast, Comparison, Conversation, Creative+Writing, Critical, Deductive, Definition, Descriptive, Description, Dialog, Division, Exploratory, Expository, Informative, Interview, Inquiry, Journalistic, Narration, Observation. Personal Narrative, Place, Profile, Process, Proposal English Literature and Literary Analysis - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A & P, Antigone, Apocalypse Now, Araby, The Awakening, Barn Burning, Beowulf, Beloved, Bible, Birthmark, Blade Runner, The Bluest Eye, Candide, Canterbury Tales, Catcher in the Rye, Cathedral, Chrysanthemums, A Clockwork Orange, The Color Purple, Comparing Literary Works, Crime and Punishment, Death of a Salesman, Death in Venice, Desiree's Baby, A Doll's House, Dr. Faustus, Epic of Gilgamesh, Everyday Use, A Farewell to Arms, Frankenstein, The Grapes of Wrath, Great Gatsby, Great Expectations, Glass Menagerie, Gulliver's Travels, The Handmaid's Tale, Heart of Darkness, The Iliad, Invisible Man, Jane Eyre, The Joy Luck Club, The Lottery, ...
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...G U I D E T E A C H E R’S A TEACHER’S GUIDE TO TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE BY SOLOMON NORTHUP bY Jeanne M. McGlInn anD JaMes e. McGlInn 2 A Teacher’s Guide to Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup Table of Contents SYNOPSIS......................................................................................................................................3 ABOUT THE AUTHOR...............................................................................................................3 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY GUIDE............................................................................3 MEETING COMMON CORE STANDARDS.............................................................3 THE SLAVE NARRATIVE GENRE...............................................................................3 HISTORICAL OVERVIEW..........................................................................................................4 DURING READING.....................................................................................................................6 SYNTHESIZING DISCUSSION QUESTIONS.......................................................................9 ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES.......................................................................................................9 ACTIVITIES FOR USING THE FILM ADAPTATION........................................................ 11 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES.....................................................................................
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...of the log cabins by Puma lake. This scene develops into an interrogation-like scenario, as Marlowe pries subtly into, or rather allows for the personal life of Bill Chess to be stated outright, with the detective mentioning the occasional hint or question to allow for a fuller explanation and understanding of the recent occurrences involving the disappearance of Crystal Kingsley. We learn much about both characters in this extract, allowing us to form a good idea of their personalities and mannerisms. “The Lady in the Lake” is a detective fiction novel, and elements of this genre shine through within this extract alone, from the almost interrogation-like scenario by which Bill pours out his story to Marlowe. In this extract we find Marlowe taking almost a step back from the scenario and acting essentially as a pair of ears tuned in on the monologue presented from Bill - the kind of subtle yet acute manner you would expect from a detective, and this lends itself towards the confirmation of the genre of detective fiction. This confirmation is heightened through the organisation of the extract; secrets are subtly unearthed by the detective, with the possibility of a death having occurred with the discovery of Muriel Chess’ note reading “…I’d rather be dead than live with you any longer. Muriel.” This deepening in severity of the situation opens multiple possibilities as to where the plot could lead the reader; in true detective fiction manner. With the narrative perspective...
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...Personal Narrative “RYAN!” My sister shouts from the lake as I spray on sticky sunscreen. “Hurry up, we’re about to leave!” Hurriedly grabbing my towel, I swing open the screen door of my grandma’s remote Minocqua cabin, bounding down wooden steps to a similarly wooden pier. As I clamber onto the boat after my siblings and parents, I check what’s in it- a rope, a handle, waterskis, and a few fishing rods- we’re ready! Once I untie us from the dock, my dad pushes off and we chug across North Placid Lake .I’m 11 years old, and today is the first day I will try to waterski. I’m not sure what to expect- will it be easy? Difficult? Will I get dragged, unable to let go? My worries fade away into calmness as I observe the serene woodlands I’ve become...
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