Literature Analysis Blog: Period 4C/5A

Literature Analysis Blog: Due by Friday, January 11, 2013.

First: For your title, state the name of the book and the author.

Second: You will write a six paragraph literature analysis. Each of the following topic areas are required in your “blog” analysis. Write at least one paragraph on each of the topics:

• Plot Summary
• Characterization
• Setting
• Conflict
• Theme
• Point of View and Style

Finally: For full credit and after submitting your blog, read at least one other person’s analysis and make a two to three sentence comment. You are expected to use good grammar and spelling, so maybe type it in Microsoft Word before pasting and publishing it to the blog.

Note: If your blog is over 4500 characters, you will have to split it into two blogs, part one and part two.

Here is a break down on each topic:

Plot summary: The plot is a brief but thorough summary of the story. You should exhibit knowledge of the five stages of the plot in your summary (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution).

Characterization: The characters in the story are the people or animals that author uses to represent various events and actions. When discussing the characters, please, identify their physical traits and personality attributes and explain how each of them interrelates amongst one another in the story.

Setting: The setting of a story is usually represented by its depiction of time and place. While the author may state the original settings in the story, it is important that readers know that there could be various settings in the story as well. The expressions of events and actions do change from place to place and time to time.

Conflict: The conflicts that occur in a literary work are usually expressed as internal or external. Conflicts are the problems that the characters have as they interrelate amongst one another, and as they express their inner thoughts and feelings in a story. Please, make sure that you identify the internal and external conflicts in your story analysis; and make sure that you use references from the story to support your points.

Theme: What is the universal meaning that the story provides you? How do you explain the fact that you have gotten the message in the story? A theme is usually the universal message or idea that is identified by the reader or audience. In stating the theme of a story, you should be able to express how much meaning and impact that the story had on you. A story may have as many themes as possible; however, you should choose one theme that you can fully discuss, using evidence from the story.

The following two topics can be combined into one paragraph:

Point of view: The point of view of a story is usually the angle from which the author tells his or her story. It is usually expressed in either the first person, second person, or third person.

• In the first person point of view, the author or narrator tells his or her story; it is mostly used in autobiographical or eyewitness reports.
• The second person point of view is rarely used in narratives.
• The third person point of view can be expressed in either third person limited or omniscient.
• In the third person limited, the narrator is usually not included as a character in the story. He or she is detached from the story; however, he or she is able to narrate the story based on what can be determined from one character in the story.
• In the third person omniscient, the character is fully involved in the story. He or she is able to see everything that is going on in the minds of the characters and is able to tell the movement of the characters as they progress from stage to stage.

Style: The manner in which an author expresses himself or herself in writing.

• The language that the authors use to convey their thoughts. What kinds of words are used? Do you find them too lofty and difficult to understand? Do you find them easy to read? How are the words arranged?
• Figurative language. Is there lots of imagery? Is there flashback and foreshadowing used? Are there lots of literary devices used?
• What are the structure and organization of writing? Is it in letter form, does it have paragraphs separating main ideas? Are there lots of dialogues or just one long straight narrative? What does the title of the story tell you about what to expect?
• What Kind of grammar is used? What punctuation style do the authors use?

Literature Analysis Blog: Period 4A/4B

Literature Analysis Blog: Due by Friday, January 11, 2013.

First: For your title, state the name of the book and the author.

Second: You will write a six paragraph literature analysis.  Each of the following topic areas are  required in your “blog” analysis.  Write at least one paragraph on each of the topics: 

• Plot Summary
• Characterization
• Setting
• Conflict
• Theme
• Point of View and Style

Finally:  For full credit and after submitting your blog, read at least one other person’s analysis and make a two to three sentence comment. You are expected to use good grammar and spelling, so maybe type it in Microsoft Word before pasting and publishing it to the blog.

Note: If your blog is over 4500 characters, you will have to split it into two blogs, part one and part two.

Here is a break down on each topic:

Plot summary:  The plot is a brief but thorough summary of the story. You should exhibit knowledge of the five stages of the plot in your summary (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution).

Characterization: The characters in the story are the people or animals that author uses to represent various events and actions. When discussing the characters, please, identify their physical traits and personality attributes and explain how each of them interrelates amongst one another in the story.

Setting: The setting of a story is usually represented by its depiction of time and place. While the author may state the original settings in the story, it is important that readers know that there could be various settings in the story as well. The expressions of events and actions do change from place to place and time to time.

Conflict: The conflicts that occur in a literary work are usually expressed as internal or external. Conflicts are the problems that the characters have as they interrelate amongst one another, and as they express their inner thoughts and feelings in a story. Please, make sure that you identify the internal and external conflicts in your story analysis; and make sure that you use references from the story to support your points.

Theme: What is the universal meaning that the story provides you? How do you explain the fact that you have gotten the message in the story? A theme is usually the universal message or idea that is identified by the reader or audience. In stating the theme of a story, you should be able to express how much meaning and impact that the story had on you. A story may have as many themes as possible; however, you should choose one theme that you can fully discuss, using evidence from the story.

The following two topics can be combined into one paragraph:

Point of view: The point of view of a story is usually the angle from which the author tells his or her story. It is usually expressed in either the first person, second person, or third person.

• In the first person point of view, the author or narrator tells his or her story; it is mostly used in autobiographical or eyewitness reports.
• The second person point of view is rarely used in narratives.
• The third person point of view can be expressed in either third person limited or omniscient.
• In the third person limited, the narrator is usually not included as a character in the story. He or she is detached from the story; however, he or she is able to narrate the story based on what can be determined from one character in the story.
• In the third person omniscient, the character is fully involved in the story. He or she is able to see everything that is going on in the minds of the characters and is able to tell the movement of the characters as they progress from stage to stage.

Style: The manner in which an author expresses himself or herself in writing.

• The language that the authors use to convey their thoughts. What kinds of words are used? Do you find them too lofty and difficult to understand? Do you find them easy to read? How are the words arranged?
• Figurative language. Is there lots of imagery? Is there flashback and foreshadowing used? Are there lots of literary devices used?
• What are the structure and organization of writing? Is it in letter form, does it have paragraphs separating main ideas? Are there lots of dialogues or just one long straight narrative? What does the title of the story tell you about what to expect?
• What Kind of grammar is used? What punctuation style do the authors use?
  
  

 

Period 4A/4B -- Fahrenheit 451 #3 -- English 10

Fahrenheit 451 - Chapter 3 “Burning Bright”

AS OF 1/1/13, THIS ASSIGNMENT IS COMPLETE AND NOLONGER
CAN BE SUBMITTED VIA THIS BLOG. SEE MR. DAWURSK TO
COMPLETE AS AN ALTERNATIVE LATE ASSIGNMENT.

First, choose just THREE questions from the eight below and write at least a one paragraph response for each of the questions you chose. Put all the paragraph responses under the same comment. Include any evidence from the reading to prove your arguments (your point of views).

Next, after you have written your comments, then write a one to two sentence reply to someone else's paragraphs.

Finally, this blog assignment is due no later than 9 AM on Friday, December 7, 2012.

Here are the questions. Remember to choose only THREE to answer.

 

1. What is the explanation which Montag and Faber arrive at for how so very much could have happened within one week? Why?  Explain your answer.
2. Describe the effects of the war as Montag imagined them.  Why?  Explain your answer.
3. What is the promise at the end of the novel?  Why?  Explain your answer.
4. What’s up with those chapter divisions? Does the plot seem suited to its three-part format? What do you make of those chapter titles? Explain your answer.
5. Does the violence prevalent in the futuristic world of this novel comment in any way on our own society? Do we, in a way, love violence as well? Is there anything wrong with that? What’s healthy and what’s not?
6. Bradbury has stated that the novel is not about censorship, but since Captain Beatty cites censorship as one of the main reasons books ended up banned, we’re going to ask you this question anyway: where can we draw the line with appropriate censorship and shameless destruction of information?
7. Check out the cover image for the 50th Anniversary Edition. What do you make of the fact that a man, made of books, is being burned, rather than just a pile of books?
8. Bradbury says his novel is about TV replacing books, not about censorship. Does he get to say what his book is about? Is he “right”?

Period 4C/5A -- Fahrenheit 451 #3 -- English 10

Fahrenheit 451 - Chapter 3 “Burning Bright”

AS OF 1/1/13, THIS ASSIGNMENT IS COMPLETE AND NOLONGER
CAN BE SUBMITTED VIA THIS BLOG. SEE MR. DAWURSK TO
COMPLETE AS AN ALTERNATIVE LATE ASSIGNMENT.

First, choose just THREE questions from the eight below and write at least a one paragraph response for each of the questions you chose. Put all the paragraph responses under the same comment. Include any evidence from the reading to prove your arguments (your point of views).

Next, after you have written your comments, then write a one to two sentence reply to someone else's paragraphs.

Finally, this blog assignment is due no later than 9 AM on Friday, December 7, 2012.

Here are the questions. Remember to choose only THREE to answer.

1. What is the explanation which Montag and Faber arrive at for how so very much could have happened within one week? Why?  Explain your answer.
2. Describe the effects of the war as Montag imagined them.  Why?  Explain your answer.
3. What is the promise at the end of the novel?  Why?  Explain your answer.
4. What’s up with those chapter divisions? Does the plot seem suited to its three-part format? What do you make of those chapter titles? Explain your answer.
5. Does the violence prevalent in the futuristic world of this novel comment in any way on our own society? Do we, in a way, love violence as well? Is there anything wrong with that? What’s healthy and what’s not?
6. Bradbury has stated that the novel is not about censorship, but since Captain Beatty cites censorship as one of the main reasons books ended up banned, we’re going to ask you this question anyway: where can we draw the line with appropriate censorship and shameless destruction of information?
7. Check out the cover image for the 50th Anniversary Edition. What do you make of the fact that a man, made of books, is being burned, rather than just a pile of books?
8. Bradbury says his novel is about TV replacing books, not about censorship. Does he get to say what his book is about? Is he “right”?

Period 4C/5A -- Fahrenheit 451 #2 -- English 10

Fahrenheit 451 "Part 2: The Sieve and the Sand "

AS OF 1/1/13, THIS ASSIGNMENT IS COMPLETE AND NOLONGER
CAN BE SUBMITTED VIA THIS BLOG. SEE MR. DAWURSK TO
COMPLETE AS AN ALTERNATIVE LATE ASSIGNMENT.

First, choose just TWO questions from the eight below and write at least a one paragraph response for each of the questions you chose. Put both paragraph responses under the same comment. Include any evidence from the reading to prove your arguments (your point of views).

Next, after you have written your comments, then write a one to two sentence reply to someone else's paragraphs.

Finally, this blog assignment is due no later than 9 AM on Friday, November 26.

Here are the questions. Remember to choose only two to answer.

1. What is the meaning of the title of Part 2?
2. What is the importance of the “Dentrifice” commercial?
3. Why does Montag go to see Faber? What does Faber tell Montag about books?
4. What are the three things which Faber says are missing from society?
5. Describe the parlor women, their views, their conversational concerns.
6. Why does Montag read “Dover Beach” aloud to the ladies? How do the women react?

Period 4A/4B -- Fahrenheit 451 #2: English 10

Fahrenheit 451 "Part 2: The Sieve and the Sand "

AS OF 1/1/13, THIS ASSIGNMENT IS COMPLETE AND NOLONGER
CAN BE SUBMITTED VIA THIS BLOG. SEE MR. DAWURSK TO
COMPLETE AS AN ALTERNATIVE LATE ASSIGNMENT.

First, choose just TWO questions from the eight below and write at least a one paragraph response for each of the questions you chose. Put both paragraph responses under the same comment. Include any evidence from the reading to prove your arguments (your point of views).
 
Next, after you have written your comments, then write a one to two sentence reply to someone else's paragraphs.

Finally, this blog assignment is due no later than 9 AM on Friday, November 26.

Here are the questions. Remember to choose only two to answer.
 

1. What is the meaning of the title of Part 2? 
2. What is the importance of the “Dentrifice” commercial? 
3. Why does Montag go to see Faber?  What does Faber tell Montag about books? 
4. What are the three things which Faber says are missing from society? 
5. Describe the parlor women, their views, their conversational concerns. 
6. Why does Montag read “Dover Beach” aloud to the ladies?  How do the women react? 

Farrenheit 451 - #1: English 10 Blog

Farenheit 451 "Part 1: The Hearth and the Salamander"

AS OF 11/28/12, THIS ASSIGNMENT IS COMPLETE AND NOLONGER
CAN BE SUBMITTED VIA THIS BLOG.  SEE MR. DAWURSK TO
COMPLETE AS AN ALTERNATIVE LATE ASSIGNMENT.

First, choose just TWO questions from the six below and write at least a one paragraph response for each of the questions you chose. Put both paragraph responses under the same comment.  Include any evidence from the reading to prove your arguments (your point of views).

Next, after you have written your comments, then write a one to two sentence reply to someone else's paragraphs.

Finally, this blog assignment is due no later than 9 AM on Tuesday, November 20.

Here are the questions.  Remember to choose only two to answer.

1. What is the significance of Montag seeing his reflection in Clarisse’s eyes?

2. Clarisse causes Montag to recall a childhood memory in which a wish was embedded. What was the significance of the memory and the wish?

3. Find two similes Montag uses to describe Clarisse. Do the similes serve any purpose other than to characterize Clarisse? Explain your answer.

4. What is the significance of the refrain repeated by the woman whose house was burned? What did it mean? What is its effect on Montag?

5. What does “antisocial” mean? What does it mean in the society of Fahrenheit 451? To who is the term applied?

6. Summarize Beatty's explanation of how the need for firemen arose.