Tuesday, March 10 Ethan Frome Applying Literary Natualism to Your Own Life




.I can interpret words and phrases that are used in the text, including technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape the meaning
.I can determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.
.I can identify and determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.

Text link for Ethan Frome:https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4517/4517-h/4517-h.htm
Audio link for Ethan Frome:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-BZEa3WY0E&t=3s

Coming up: vocabulary quiz on Ethan Frome on Friday, March 13 (another copy below); please read chapters 1 and 2 (pages 23- 39) for Wednesday. Expect a short quiz. Please turn in your graphic organizer on Natualism from yesterday, if you did not finish in class.

In class: review of Naturalism and personal response. 

Open up a document. MLA heading, title Naturalism.
Review the following material and respond in approximately 300 words:  Share 2006630

Does determinism control our lives?
  
* Literary Naturalism approximately 1890-1915 (remember that these dates are fluid)
* Literary Naturalism is a movement that suggests that the roles of family, social conditions and environment play a main role in shaping our human character. 
* Environment determines and governs human behavior
* Naturalist works usually have characters surving in the harshest conditions.
* And only the strong survive
*DETERMINISM-everything in life has been determined for you, and nothing can change your destiny. (fate!) Basically you are changed to a destiny you may not want.
Pessimism-(a lack of hope or confidence in the future);  Naturalists had a pessismistic view of the world.
Humans are animals doing animal things.

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Ethan Frome Vocabulary Words    quiz on Friday, March 13 periods 3 and 9 only

1.  sardonic: adj. Scornfully or cynically mocking; sarcastic.

2.   colloquial: adj.  1. Characteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language or to writing that seeks
                            the effect of speech; informal.  2. Relating to conversation; conversational.

3.    innocuous: adj. 1. Having no adverse effect; harmless. 2. Not likely to offend or provoke to strong
                        emotion; insipid.

4.  reticent: adj. 1. Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself;
                              Restrained or reserved in style. 3. Reluctant; unwilling.
5. poignant: adj.  Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings: poignant anxiety; profoundly moving;  touching: a poignant memory.

6. wraith:  n. 1. An apparition of a living person that appears as a portent just before that person's
                            death. 2. The ghost of a dead person. 3. Something shadowy and insubstantial.

7. wistful:  adj. 1. Full of wishful yearning. 2. Pensively sad; melancholy.

8. undulation: n. 1. A regular rising and falling or movement to alternating sides; movement in waves.

9. tenuous:  adj. 1. Long and thin; slender: tenuous strands. 2. Having a thin consistency; dilute;   
          having little substance; flimsy: a tenuous argument.

10. throng: n. 1. A large group of people gathered or crowded closely together; a multitude.
                throngs  v.tr.  1. To crowd into; fill: commuters thronging the subway platform.2. To press in  
                    to gather, press, or move in a throng.

11. vex:   (verb) 1. To annoy, as with petty importunities; bother. 2. To cause perplexity in; puzzle.

12. laden:  adj. 1. Weighed down with a load; heavy: "the warmish air, laden with the rains of those
               thousands of miles of western sea" Hilaire Belloc.  2. Oppressed; burdened: laden with grief.

13. preclude:  1. To make impossible, as by action taken in advance; prevent. 2. To exclude or prevent (someone) from a given condition or activity: Modesty precludes me from accepting the honor.

14. succumb: (verb) 1. To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in. 2. To die.

15. foist:  (verb) 1. To pass off as genuine, valuable, or worthy: "I can usually tell whether a poet . . . is foisting off on us what he'd like to think is pure invention" J.D. Salinger.
    2. To impose (something or someone unwanted) upon another by coercion or trickery:They had extra work foisted on them because they couldn't say no to the boss. 3. To insert fraudulently or deceitfully: foisted unfair provisions into the contract.


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