Transcript File - Kearney English 3

THE PURITANS
Bradford, Bradstreet, Taylor, Edwards and Miller
What is Drama?
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List five things that you think make a drama unique.
Drama
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Elements of Drama
To be performed by actors
 Action presented through dialogue
 Plot: ordered sequence of events
 In a play, plots are usually divided into acts and then scenes.
 Dialogue: conversation between characters
 Stage directions: notes on how to run the play
 Soliloquy: speech where character reveals thoughts and
feelings to audience. Thinking aloud
 Aside: an address to the audience of character’s thoughts.
Other characters “don’t hear”
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Drama
Tragedy -- In general, tragedy involves the
ruin of the leading characters usually through a
character flaw or death. Modern tragedy may
not include death but a depressing and dismal
life. Starts high and ends low.
 Comedy -- is lighter drama in which the
leading characters overcome the difficulties
which temporarily beset them. Starts low and
ends high.
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Examples
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Write down an example of a tragedy and a
comedy that you have seen as a film or play.
Drama
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History plays: plays that are based in historical, past events
Tragicomedy: both tragic and comic
Political drama: the author seems to have a strong opinion on political
issues that comes through in their screenplay.
Problem Play -- Drama of social criticism discusses social, economic, or
political problems by means of a play.
Farce -- When comedy involves ridiculous or hilarious complications without
regard for human values, it becomes farce.
Comedy of Manners -- Comedy which wittily portrays fashionable life
Fantasy -- A play sometimes, but not always, in comic spirit in which the
author gives free reign to his fantasy, allowing things to happen without
regard to reality.
Melodrama -- Like farce, melodrama pays almost no attention to human
values, but its object is to give a thrill instead of a laugh. Often good
entertainment, never any literary value.
Government: Critical Thinking
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Theo: means god in Greek
Cracy: means government or rule.
Vocabulary
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Theocracy: a form of government in which God or a
deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the
God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the
ecclesiastical authorities. ...
Parallel Structure
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Defined: Two or more words, phrases, or clauses
that are similar in length and grammatical form.
Use the same verb tense for each:
Mary likes hiking, swimming, and bicycling.
Mary likes to hike, to swim, and to ride a bicycle.
OR
Mary likes to hike, swim, and ride a bicycle.
DO NOT mix.
Mary likes hiking, swimming, and to ride a bicycle
To Do and Not To Do
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Not Parallel:
The production manager was asked to write his report quickly,
accurately, and in a detailed manner.
Parallel:
The production manager was asked to write his report quickly,
accurately, and thoroughly.
Not Parallel:
The teacher said that he was a poor student because he waited until
the last minute to study for the exam, completed his lab problems in
a careless manner, and his motivation was low.
Parallel:
The teacher said that he was a poor student because he waited until
the last minute to study for the exam, completed his lab problems in
a careless manner, and lacked motivation.
Satire
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Satire: Mocking something in order to call attention
to an issue or bring about a change.
“A text or performance that uses irony, derision, or wit
to expose or attack human vice, foolishness, or
stupidity.”
Parody: Mocking something because it is funny to do
so.
“an imitation of the style of a particular writer,
artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for
comic effect.”
Satire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzSQqlH8
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 Obesity in Baseball
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4
m-g Monty Python: She’s a witch!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Otla5157c
YOLO
Monty Python: Parody or Satire?
Irony
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the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally
signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
 "“Don't go overboard with the gratitude,” he rejoined with heavy
irony"
a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to
what one expects and is often amusing as a result.
plural noun: ironies
 "the irony is that I thought he could help me"
a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the
full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the
audience or reader although unknown to the character.
noun: dramatic irony
Scapegoats
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Two goats selected for an offering every year.
One was killed and it’s blood sprinkled on the Ark
of the Covenant
This was an offering for the people’s sins.
The second goat was allowed to live and the
people tied a red cloth on it’s neck to symbolize
their sin.
Then the goat was set free into the wilderness and
became known as a scapegoat.
Puritan Beliefs
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Puritans believed that if one member sinned, misfortune could befall the entire
community.
Blame was a way to deal with misfortune.
All aspects of life must be guided by the Bible
Schooling was important because they wanted to read the Bible
God’s law provided a plan for living
Reject the worldliness of society
Convert or leave
Actions spoke louder than words. Therefore actions should be controlled.
Predestination: worked to be chosen as the elect
Puritan work ethic: work hard and you will be blessed
Devil behind all evil, therefore you must be on constant watch
Drama, religious music and erotic poetry were banned. The first and third for
immortality. The music because its dreamy state did not allow people to think
seriously about God
First free education: to teach about God
First children’s books
Puritan Children’s Books
JANEWAY’s
Token for Children: Being
an account of Conversion,
holy and exemplary lives
and joyful deaths of
several young children.
Puritan Children’s Books
But at last it
pleased the
Lord too give
him some
small hope
that there
might be
mercy for him,
though he had
been the chief
of sinners…
McCarthyism Review:
 What
is communism?
 What was the cold war?
 Why do you think they reacted the way they did?
 What is the problem with accusing people who
opposed Communist hearings?
 IS that just? Do you think Justice was winning?
 How is this similar/different to the witch trials?
 What do you think Miller is trying to say about the
HUAC trials?
 What is our motto in justice? Innocent until proven
__________? What was it then?
Compare…what do they have in common?
Guilty By Suspicion/HUAC
The Crucible
Inversion, Allusion, Personification
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Inversion: Reversal of the normal order of words, typically for
rhetorical effect but also found in the regular formation of questions
in English:
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Allusion: A passing or casual reference, mention of something
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“Sit you down”(Miller 9).
Parris
“I think not, or you should surely know that Cain were an upright man,
and yet he did kill Abel”(Miller 85).
Parris
Personification: Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things
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“An everlasting funeral marches around your heart” (Miller 52).
Proctor
Simile and Metaphor
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Both are comparisons
Simile: a figure of speech involving the comparison
of one thing with another thing of a different kind,
used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
A comparison using like or as.
Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a word or
phrase is applied to an object or action to which it
is not literally applicable.
WITHOUT using like or as.
REVIEW: Find the Similes/Metaphors:
Owl City: Hello Seattle
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Hello Seattle, I am a mountaineer
In the hills and highlands
I fall asleep in hospital parking lots
And awake in your mouth
Hello Seattle, I am a manta ray
Deep beneath the blue waves
I'll crawl the sandy bottom of Puget
Sound
And construct a summer home
Hello Seattle, I am the crescent moon
Shining down on your face
I will disguise myself as a sleeping pill
And descend inside of you
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Hello Seattle, I am a cold seahorse
Feeling warm in your sand
I sing about the tide and the ocean surf
Rolling in the evening breeze
Hello Seattle, I am an albatross
On the docks and moored boats
I sail above your inlets and interstates
Through the rain and open wind
Hello Seattle, I am an old lighthouse
Throwing beams of bright lights
Red in the morning, blue in the evening
sun
Taking heed for everyone
September 27, 2011
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Characters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0SRzKTrPuY
What is your first impression of this guy? His hair?
Dress? Attitude?
Discussion Starter
What role do you think fear plays in the distribution
of justice?
Justice: Harry Potter
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obHCH0CbnyI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC_jddH_0MI
How do these examples remind you of McCarthyism
and the witch trials?
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three parallels.
Communism Propaganda
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How to Spot a Communist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkYl_AH-qyk
Witch Hunt Documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-dA4LIqifc
September 30th: Journal Prompt:
Compare the two pictures and write a caption for each. Then
compare the two captions and say how they reflect different
feelings and different times.
1692
2000
The Final Scene
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Eel02K-WPo
Why doesn’t Proctor confess? Why did he consider
it?
What do Parris, Hale and Danforth want him to do?
What does Elizabeth want him to do?
How do you feel about this ending? Who is the true
winner here? Why?
Anti-Communist Propaganda
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Anti-Communist Propaganda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4yjAb6eoCw
Look at the examples of American propaganda around the
room
Respond
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1 paragraph comparing American, Russian and Nazi
propaganda. What do they have in common? How do they
differ?
1 paragraph explaining the impact of propaganda on hysteria
and explaining what form propaganda might have taken in
Salem.
Overview of Cold War (HUAC at 10:55)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C72ISMF_D0
Write an Epilogue
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Extend the story. Tell us what happened afterwards.
Pick at least one character and follow either them
or their family after the trials.
Use 3 quotes from The Crucible to make explain
their choices.
EX: “That women would never lie…” and then
connect that to how she becomes (or doesn’t
become) a liar because of her experience with the
trials.
This should be 1.5- 2 pages handwritten.
Thoughts On Witches
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What do people today think about witchcraft?
Witches? And not just the Harry Potter kind.
Ask them:
Would you attend a séance?
 Would you attempt folk myths to determine what your future
life would look like?
 If you met a witch would you take them seriously?
 Do you believe that there are still witches out there? If so,
do you think they can actually do magic?
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Ask 3 people these questions. Return and write 1.5-2
pages using quotes from your interview. Answer those
four questions in your paper.