ISACS Survey
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ISACS Survey
• On the Edline homepage, there is a link to the survey
• All answers are – Important– Anonymous
• 20-45 minutes
DNP: 10/21/2013
• Clear your desks for WWW #37
• Pick up a marker
• Period 4: Turn in your paper revisions (with your original drafts)
Homework:
• Read “The Devil and Tom Walker”– Make sure you can answer the reading
comprehension questions
• Topics for discussion:– Role of the setting, specifically the forest– Examples/purpose of satire
DNP: 10/22/2013
• Notes out ready to go.
America after the 18th century…
• Optimistic
• Democracy empowers the individual
• Clash of ideals and reality– Writers explore both extremes• Individualism• Darker sides of a fragmenting society
• Economically prosperous MATERIALISM
The Romantics’ Relationship with Nature
• Elevate nature as a sanctuary– Pure, not artificial
• Often illustrate the egotistical, futile and destructive aspects of their questing heroes
• Concerned with the loss of the frontier– “Manifest Destiny”
CONTRAST with the PURITANS who viewed nature as a fallen “wilderness” full of
“savage” Indians
1800
1820
SATIRE IN “THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER”
A Definition
• SATIRE – Literature that uses humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to exposes or mock the stupidity or recklessness of people or societies
Satire in the Tall Tale
• The main object of Washington Irving’s satire is greedy people, especially those whose wealth is ill-gotten or gained through the bad luck of others.
• Irving pokes fun at this type of person through his exaggerated characterization of Tom and his wife.
In your groups…
• Find textual examples where Irving satirizes greedy people.
• Compile these quotes in a google doc and share it with me ([email protected])
• Save your doc as Group Names Irving Satire
Homework over Fall Break:
• Get into the text…– Option 1: Using the descriptions from the story, visually
recreate (through drawing, diorama, mobile, etc.) the setting, capturing the wild potential of the wilderness
– Option 2: Write a short (1-page, double-spaced typed) newspaper account of the Walkers’ mysterious disappearances that incorporates each of the underlined vocabulary words in the story
• Grammar review packet – verbs & adverbs