ELA Regent Part B

Task: Answer the following questions using the ELA regents part 2 on Wikispace.

What kind of texts do you expect to read?
I expect the text to be on fact, which can be graphed.

What is a graph, and what kind of information does it elicit?
A graph is a set of data that is put to show how the data compare or contrast with each other.

How can you compare the two?
You can compare the two by looking at the information given in the graph.

What are they asking you to do in this essay?
They are asking to write an essay that would explain why the Florida manatee are being endangered and how to save them.

Is this a persuasive or informative essay? Why?
This is an informative essay because it does not show the author trying to convince the reader to agree with their opinion.

What thesis statement can you possibly write for this essay?
A thesis statement I could write is "The Florida manatee are endangered but there are ways to help these animals from becoming extinct."

What if they wanted you to write a Letter to a senator, then how many paragraphs would you write?
If I would write a letter to a senator it would be 5-7 paragraphs.

August Wilson Fences classwork 12/10/07

Task- Write what was going on during the time period of Fences. Create a list of all the characters and what role they play, how are they related, protagonist, antagonist, conflicts so far,


During the time that Fences was made black people were beginning to join professional sports. They were given the chance to join sports that before only white people played professionally.

Characters
Troy Maxson- Troy is the protagonist and antagonist of the story. He's dreams of playing professional baseball

were ruined due to the fact that he was to old to play baseball.

Gabriel Maxson- Gabriel is Troy's brother who fought in the war. Due to the war he ended up getting a metal plate in his head so he acts like a mental person.

Rose- Rose is Troy's wife. She is mother of Cory.

Cory- Cory is Troy's and Rose's son. He is 17 through out most of the play. He's dream is to become a Football player.

Lyons-Troy's older son with he's first wife. He wants to be a musician. At the end of the play he ended up in jail

Bonnie- Bonnie is Lyons girlfriend. At the end of the play she had left Lyons


Tim Bono- Bono works with Troy as a garbage man. He is Troy's closet friend.

Lucille- Lucille is Bono wife.

Alberta- Alberta is Troy's mistress. She has a baby with Troy and dies giving birth to her child.

Raynell Maxson- Raynell is the daughter that Troy has with Alberta. Rose ends up being the mother of Raynell.

Mr. Rand- Mr Rand is the boss of Troy and Bono.

Miss Pearl- Miss Pearl is the landlord of Gabriel.

Coach Zellman- Coach Zellman Cory's football coach.


Conflict- Troy Maxson would never forget that he was turned down from major league baseball. Due to this he never let his son, Cory who was very good at football, get recruited for football. He was so wrapped around what happened to him that he did not realize that the times had change. He ended up cheating on his wife, Rose, with Alberta, and having a baby with her. At the end of the story he ends up dying.

August Wilson Biography

August Wilson real name was Frederick August Kittell. He was born on April 27, 1945, in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father was a German baker named Frederkick Kittell and his mother was an African American cleaning lady, her name was Daisy Wilson Kittell. He was the fourth of six children. His father was barely around in his life. His mother would take care of the family with her cleaning lady job.
When August was a teenager his mother married David Bedford. They went to live in Hazelwood, a suburban neighborhood. There the people were racist against black people. August dropped out of high school in ninth grade after his teacher accused him of plagiarizing a report he did on Napoleon Bonaparte. He would go to the library to get an education. At the age of 16 he would work basic jobs.
In 1965 August changed his last name to his mother's maiden name, after his dad died. He discovered the blues that Bessie Smith sang and he bought a typewriter and began to write poetry. In 1968 August and Rob Penny co-founded the Black Horizon, which was a theater located in the Hill District of Pittsburgh. There August was a scriptwriter and a director for ten years.
In 1969 August got married to Brenda Burton. The same year he got married was the same year his stepfather David died. August had one baby girl with Brenda. Her name was Sakina Ansari Wilson and she was born on January 22, 1970. August and Brenda marriage would only last three years because the marriage ended with a divorce in 1972.
In 1978 August moved to ST Paul, Minnesota. His friend Claude Purdy suggested August to move to St. Paul and he helped August get a job at the The Science Museum of Minnesota. August job was to write educational scripts.
In 1980 August received a $200 a month fellowship for the Minneapolis Playwrights Center, after he submitted his play Jitney. Jitney and Fullerton Street (another work of August), got produced at the Allegheny Repertory Theater in Pittsburgh. August got accepted in the 1982 National Playwrights Conference because of Jitney.
In 1981, August got married for a second time. He got married to Judy Oliver. Judy Oliver was a social worker. At the 1983 National Playwright Conference a man named Lloyd Richards, a director of the Yale Repertory, got interested by August, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom play. Lloyd Richards directed all of August's plays since then. August mother dies in 1983. In 1984 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom gets played at Broadway. In 1985 it wins August his First New York Drama Critics award. In 1987 Fences, another of August plays gets played at Broadway. Fences gains $11 million for the first year it played in Broadway.In 1987 August get a Pulitzer Prize for Fences. In 1989 August gets named the 1990 Pittsburgher of the Year by Pittsburgh magazine.
In 1990 August and Judy got a divorce. That same year August moved to Seattle.His play Piano Lesson also gets played in Broadway. He wins a Pulitzer Prize for Piano Lesson .
In 1994 he married Constanza Romero and had a daughter with her in 1997 named Azula Carmen Wilson.In June 2005 August was diagnosed with liver cancer. On October 2, 2005, August died in the Swedish Medical center in Seattle.

Bibliography
http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/anlistik/kerkhoff.ComtempDrama.WilsonAugust.htm
http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/august_wilson/index.shtml
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/wilson_a.htm
http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/19991216awtimeline9.asp

Critical Lens Essay Outline

Task: Make an outline for the Part 4 ELA Regents Critical Lens essay.

I. Introduction

The quote “To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.” by Bernadette Devlin means that in order to get something that is worth a lot for a person they would have to deal with having to lose everything else they have to get that thing. I agree with this quote. When a person gains something they have to lose something else. Two books that is related to this quote are, The Odyssey by Homer and Cinderella Hour,by Katherine Stone. The characters in these two books have to give up so many things in order to gain one thing that is worth all their lose and sufferings.

II. Body Paragraph 1
The Odyssey relates to the quote by Bernadette Devlin because of the character Odysseus. Odysseus has to give up twenty years of his life to return home to the ones he loves.
a. Odysseus loses all his men in his journey to return home.
b. He has to face monsters and almost loses his life.
c. When he returns home he has to face the suitors that want to marry his wife.

III. Body Paragraph 2
Cindererella Hour relates to this quote because of the character Luke. Luke has a hard life and to survive he has to lose many things.
a. Luke had to push himself farther then his limits to be able to live another day because his father might kill him.
b.Luke had to risk his life to save himself from a fire that his father did to kill him.
c.Saving himself ment losing his only family that was his dad and his home.

IV. Body Paragraph 3
Both novels have the characters lose something or someone they love in order to get what is really important.
a. Odessyeus friends die as they try to get back home and Luke's dad dies when his dad burns the house.
b. Both of them had to go throw many obsticle in order to stay alive.

V. Conclusion
a. Restate your opinion on the quote and why it is important.
b. The quote relates to real life because sometimes people have to make huge sacrafices to get to what really is worth it.

Part 4 of the ELA Regents Critical Lens

Task
Interpret the quotes given. Then write down two work of literature with the author that can be compare to the quotes. Then write your introduction paragraph.

"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”
—Bernadette Devlin
Interpretation

The quote “To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.” by Bernadette Devlin means that in order to get something that is worth a lot for a person they would have to deal with having to lose everything else they have to get that thing. I agree with this quote. When a person gains something they have to lose something else. Two books that is related to this quote are, The Odyssey by Homer and Cinderella Hour,by Katherine Stone. The characters in these two books have to give up so many things in order to gain one thing that is worth all their lose and sufferings.

"I like flawed characters because somewhere in them I see more of the truth.”
— Nicolas Cage,

Interpretation

"I like flawed characters because somewhere in them I see more of the truth" by Nicolas Cage, means that when people show their flaws they are showing their true self not like the people that show no flaws which make you think like they have something to hide. I agree with this quote. People that don't show their flaws are not showing their true self. Two books that relate to this quote are Foul Play by Tori Carrington, and Save the last dance for me by Dyan Sheldon. In these stories the characters hide their true self and when they are discovered they are the worst of the characters.

Outline of unified Essay

Part 3 Unified Essay Outline

I. Introduction
A. Controlling/main Idea
B. Background information (if possible)
C. Thesis statement
D. Name of passage one and passage two
E. Name of the authors of passages

II. Body Paragraph 1
A. Topic sentence ( contrast of passage one)

1.Supporting details
• Name and dates
• Direct Quotes
• Literary elements
  1. Characteristics
  2. Point of view
  3. Tone

III. Body Paragraph 2
A. Topic sentence (contrast passage two)

1. Supporting details
• Names and dates
• Direct Quotes
• Literary elements (Same as above)

IV. Body Paragraph 3
A. Topic sentence (compare passage one and two)

1. Supporting details
• Direct Quotes
  2. Literary elements (same as above)

V. Conclusion
A. Restate the thesis
B. Summarize what you have wrote without giving new ideas.

ELA Essay Part A

Your Task:
After you have read the passages and answered the multiple-choice question write a unified essay about the power of reading as revealed in the passages. In your essay, use ideas from both passages to establish a controlling idea about the power of reading. Using evidence from each passage, develop your controlling ideal and show how the author uses specific literary elements or techniques to convey that idea.

"Knowledge is power". This quote means that the more you know the more power you have of yourself and your surroundings. Books hold a great deal of knowledge. In books you can find many new ideas and things not known to you. Both passages, The Reader by Richard Wilbur and passage II by Itala Coluino, show just how books can make people gain knowledge.

The Reader is a poem, which shows how rereading a book can make someone wiser. In The Reader it says that the woman who reread the stories she liked as a child "meet them (the characters in the story) this time with a wiser eye." When she read the stories again she understood more of the propose of the character. Also when she reread the stories she read them with anticipation even if she knew that fate of the story.

Passage II is a short story that talks about how people that are closed minded open their minds to new ideas by reading books. In this passage the soldiers were sent to censor books. However they became so amused with what they were reading that the stopped reporting the books and began to just read them. The soldiers opened their minds to new ideas and did not censor the books that would contradict the "military prestige." As a result of this the soldiers were pensioned off for health reasons. However the soldiers kept learning new ideas by going to the library.

Both passages show how people can learn from books and the story they read. They see that the stories hold their own knowledge in which they can learn from. Their minds become open to many new things. They also can see things in different perspective if they reread the stories. They become wiser with what they learn from the stories.

Reading can bring knowledge to those who read. They learn new things and can also learn about themselves through the stories. They become open-minded to the ideas of other people. The passages show how people can come to accept and learn from the stories that books hold.

Effect of War on an individual

The Situation:
Your English class is studying autobiographical text of men who have served in war. For your project, you have decided to write a report about the effects that war have upon the individual. In preparation for writing your report, listen to an account by Tim O’Brien. Then use relevant information from the account to write your report.


War is a difficult situation to go through. It has different effects on those that are in the war. In Ambush by Tim O'Brien, the narrator had a life changing experience of which he would never be able to forget. He killed a young man during the war without thinking about it before killing the young man. He would live his life with regret, shame and a guilty conscience.

The narrator's nine year old daughter had asked him if he has ever killed someone. "You keep writing these war stories... so I guess you must have killed somebody." He was so ashamed of killing the young man that he told her that he didn't. However, he did say "someday I hope she'll ask again... I want to tell her exactly what happened what I remember happening and then I want to say to her that as a little girl she was right."He wanted to tell her the truth, but only when she was old enough to understand what happened.

As an effect of the war the narrator would write war stories. He said he would write them as a way of telling his daughter that she was right. He would write then as a way of remembering what happened the day that he killed the young man. His guilty conscience would make him remember what happened to him. As a result of his guilty conscience he would write the stories to have an ended that he would have preferred to have had himself.

The narrator had regretted killing the young man. He would feel guilty even when Kiowa told him that that it was a “good kill.” Kiowa told the narrator that the young man would have killed him, or the young man would have gotten killed later on. He would see the young man in his thoughts.. He says “I’ll look up and see the young man coming out of the morning fog and I’ll watch him walk towards me… he’ll walk within a few yards of me and suddenly smile at some secret thought and thin continue up the trail… up in to the fog.” In his thoughts he picture the events of what happened in the way he wished it would have happened. He regretted killing the young man and when he would see him in his thoughts he would see that the young man was alive.

The narrator’s life changed when he killed the young man. He was effected and lived with regret, shame, and a guilty conscience. He would see the man, and write about his experience. War comes with a great deal of effects. War effect vary from people to people. How much of an effect a war has on an individual depends on the mentality that individual has to handle what would or has happened to them.