Paper + Power Point presentation and talking points.

The Power point should not be just a recap of the paper.  They need to be a little different.  MLA format .  Subject is W.E.B. Dubois.

Mini-report:

 

 

10% of final grade

 

The mini-report consists of three components: 

 

1. The in-class team presentation lasting 5 minutes (2 ½ to 3 minutes each):  Each member of the two-person team presents half of the report.  You’ll want to exchange email addresses, phone numbers, etc. to coordinate your research, writing, and web design (if relevant). 

2. The write-up, posted to the appropriate Angel discussion forum:  You must  post as a team, so make certain each member agrees on the version you submit to me for grading.  Use MS Word to write a report of at least two full pages in Times New Roman, 12 pt. type, double-spaced, with 1” margins.  Copy and paste the finished write-up to the discussion list, providing appropriate attribution to each other, and to sources used.  Please do notattach the Word file since we don’t want to waste time opening extra programs to access information.  You must also submit a hard copy to me and an upload to Turnitin.com.

3. A handout:  The handout might be a chronology, an outline, a bulleted list, or a hard copy of your discussion list post.  Print enough for each member of your class – that’s roughly 26 (25 students, 1 professor).

 

Possibilities for this report include any of the following:

 

· Introduction to authors

· Discussion of one or more critical works relating to the era

· Background about the social and intellectual connections among certain groups of authors

 

Note that these are broad topics; you must tailor the topic you choose to fit your own interest and the time available.  Do not use encyclopedias and internet searches to gather data.  Research using books, online library databases, and articles from scholarly journals.

 

The Life and Legacy of Mark Twain

By:

David Wolfson

Early Life
1835: Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, MO. Haley’s Comet visible from Earth
1839: Moves to Hannibal, MO
1847: Clemens’s father dies
Drops out of school to become printer’s apprentice
1857: Becomes cub steamboat pilot, described in Life on the Mississippi
1858: Brother Henry dies in a steamboat accident on the Pennsylvania
1861: Civil War begins. Clemens serves 2 weeks with Confederate Army, then deserts.
1861: Brother Orion appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory. Clemens goes along as an aide, described in Roughing It
1862: Became a newspaper reporter in California.
1868: Meets Livy in Elmira, NY, and falls in love.
1869: Publishes first novel The Innocents Abroad which was his best seller.
1870: Marries Livy; son Langdon is born.
1872: Moves to Hartford, CT; publishes Roughing It; daughter Susie is born.

Twain’s Style
Mark Twain was the most celebrated writer of his time. He was a writer, humorist, adventurer and prankster.
Twain’s style captured the conscience of America by writing about his own history, political corruption, greed, slavery and the Reconstruction era.

Famous Works of Mark Twain
“The Innocents Abroad”, 1869
“Roughing It”, 1872
“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, 1876
“A Tramp Abroad”,1880
“The Prince and the Pauper”, 1882
“Life on the Mississippi”, 1883
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, 1885

“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”
The setting in this novel takes place in a small Mississippi River town of St. Petersburg, Missouri.
Characters-
Tom Sawyer- The Novels Main character, he is a typical young boy who’s mischievous attitude tends to always land him in some sort of trouble. But throughout the novel the reader will see his goodhearted ways and leadership.
Huckleberry Finn- Son of the town drunk and shunned by the town. He tends to be very superstitious and adored by all the boys in the town whom envy his freedom from society.
Aunt Polly- Aunt Polly is Tom’s Guardian, she is your typical kind hearted mom whom tries to juggle around the chores at home and also maintain a keen eye on her nephew Tom.
Sid- Toms younger half brother; he is the complete opposite of Tom in that he enjoys being “good” and getting Tom into trouble.
Becky Thatcher- The Judges pretty daughter who is able to catch the attention of Tom and stir up his romantic side. The two end up going to great lengths to try and make the other jealous.
Joe Harper- Joe is introduced as Tom’s best friend and the two tend to be always side by side. But through out the novel the two seem to split apart as Huckleberry Finn takes his place.
Injun Joe- A violent evil man who throughout the book commits crimes such as murder and theft. He is the villain in the novel.
Widow Douglas- Kind hearted old woman who is beloved by all the children of the town and is looked at as a friend by all. Tom saves her life in the novel.

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
This novel is the follow-up and sequel to “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”. Not long before the novel begins, Huck has been taken to live with the Widow Douglas and her sister. But Huck thinks life with the two sisters is too civilized.
In the novel that proceeded this, Tom and Huck were able to find a large stash of gold in a cave when they had there bout with Injun Joe. This led Huck to become quite a bit more wealthy in which he had put the gold into a trust fund at the bank.
Huck’s drunken father soon returned to town to kidnapped his boy to get his money from the trust fund. After a miserable time with his father, Huck escapes. While he is running away, he meets Jim—a slave of Widow Douglas’s sister—who has escaped too. The two set off together on a raft on the Mississippi River—and on one of the most famous journeys in American literature.

Emily Dickinson
Chaillie Wendt

* influenced poetry
Dec. 10, 1830
Amberst, Massachusetts
Brother, sister (middle child)
Successful family

*Lived with parents all but 1yr of her life
*Lost father, mother, nephew and a friend

Died May 15, 1886
kidney disorder: Bright’s Disease

Background info.
Spent most of life in the family house called the Homestead
Her & her sister never got married
School:
Attended Amherst Academy from 1840-1846
helped to develop her poetry & provided her with her 1st “Master”, Leonard Humphrey the principle. She left at age 15.
To Mount Holyoke where she could pursue a higher, final level of education for women.
did not complete last 3 yrs at the Female Seminary

†Religion†
When divided into 3 catagories during a class
“established christians” “expressed hope” & “no hope” was her placement
all those who want to be Christian rise… Emily remained seated, “They thought it queer I didn’t rise- I thought a lie would be queerer”…..
Expressed to a friend “Christ is calling everyone here, all my companions have answered, even my darling Vinnie believes she loves & trusts him & I am standing alone in rebellion”

Poetry consists of:
Startling imagery & excellent vocab.
pain & joy, the relationship of self to nature, spirituality, death (humor, honesty, curiosity), religion (piety & hostile)
*Love poems of at least 1 women & several men
not a confessional poet
Bible, classic English authors (Shakespeare, Milton), Longfellow, Holmes, Lowell, Hawthorne, Emerson… Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, & Tennyson… George Elliot, Elizabeth Browning

Poetic Freedom
Type of Writing…
7 beat lines broken into stanzas, alternating 4 & 3 beats
form of like nursery rhymes, ballads, church hymns
her poems are usually easy to memorize & follow, strongly rhythmical
She crafted a new type of persona for the 1st person
Likes to add dashes or syntactical fragments to her poems to add a sense of a deep pause
has dramatic scenes, conflicts (boundaries) between life & death, very high understanding of definitions and detail
Focus’s on speakers response to a situation rather than details of the situation itself

598
[632]
pg. 104
The Brain – is wider than the Sky –
For – put them side by side –
The one the other will contain
With ease – and You – beside –
The Brain is deeper than the sea –
For – hold them – Blue to Blue –
The one the other will absorb –
As Sponges – Buckets – do –
The Brain is just the weight of God –
For – Heft them – Pound for Pound –
And they will differ – if they do –
As syllable from sound –

1773
[1732]

pg. 109
My life closed twice before it’s closed;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.

Emily’s work
she wanted to be published but only had a few appear while she was alive
52 poems written 1858
366 in 1862
53 in 1864
1,147 poems discovered in cherry wood cabinet by her sister after her death
1st volume of her poetry published in 1890, 4 years after her death, edited by Thomas H. Johnson
Wrote anywhere from 1775-1800 poems on paper

Works cited
Emily Dickinson’s manuscripts are located in two primary collections: the Amherst College Library and the Houghton Library of Harvard University. The poems that were in Mabel Loomis Todd’s possession are at Amherst; those that remained within the Dickinson households are at the Houghton Library.
Dickinson Electronic Archives, http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dickinson/
Buckingham, “Poetry Readers and Reading in the 1890s: Emily Dickinson’s First Reception,” in Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response, edited by James L. Machor (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), pp. 164-179.