"The Lottery" - English 3

Link to an E-text of "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson

http://www.americanliterature.com/Jackson/SS/TheLottery.html

Twelve Angry Men ~ Themes & Motifs

Themes

• Justice
• Duty
• Formality
• Poverty
• Family
• Compassion
• Loss
• Logic
• Resolution

Motifs

• Coping with bigots
• Seeking consensus
• Assuming the role of leader
• The triuph of reason over bias

The Catcher in the Rye - Novel Project

After you are assigned a partner and your chapters, you will complete each of the three assignments below on ONE poster-sized paper.  All three assignments must be on the same paper; do not complete three separate assignments.  This will be a TEST grade.

1.  Choose one quote per chapter that you believe to be essential to your chapters.
2.  Summarize the entire chapter (beginning to end).
3.  Present a visual image of your chapter by creating one of the following:

• A collage of images that appear in the chapter (using magazine pictures, articles, newspaper clippings, etc.)
• A drawing that depicts specific events in the chapter

This project is DUE on Friday, March 18, 2011

Themes - The Catcher in the Rye

Themes - The Cathcer in the Rye

•  Youth and Innocence
• Loneliness and Isolation
• Sexuality and Sexual Identity
• Madness, Depression, and Suicide
• Wisdom, Knowledge, and Academic Success
• Lies, Deceit, and Phoniness

         ***   “Phony” is the most frequently repeated word in this novel. Holden applies “phony” to anything hypocritical, shallow, superficial, inauthentic, or otherwise fake. “Crazy,” “madman,” and “depressed” rank close behind it.   *** 

American Cultural History - The 1940's

•The 1940's were dominated by World War II (1939-1945).

•US isolationism was shattered by the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.

•War production pulled us out of the Great Depression.

•World War II changed the order of world power; the United States and the USSR became super powers.

•Women were needed to replace men who had gone off to war, and so the first great exodus of women from the home to the workplace began.

•Rationing affected the food we ate, the clothes we wore, the toys with which children played.

•The successful use of an antibiotic, penicillin, by 1941 revolutionized medicine.

•After the war, the men returned, having seen the rest of the world.

•The GI Bill allowed more men than ever before to get a college education.

Women had to give up their jobs to the returning men, but they had tasted independence.

The Catcher in the Rye - Vocabulary (Chapters 1-3)

1.  hemorrhages
2.  foils
3.  ostracized
4.  grippe
5.  chiffonier
6.  lagoon
7.  compulsory
8.  falsetto
9.  hound's tooth

The Crucible Essay

English 3

To think about as you view the movie... 

Money, power, and greed have been motivating the actions of people for hundreds of years and are still great motivators today. 

After viewing the movie...

In a 4-6 paragraph essay in which you use specific and vivid details from The Crucible, explain how and why this is true.