Wednesday and Block, 5/14-16 - Mod-urn Stories

• P&P

• Take a quick moment to do this senior survey.

• Now copy down the following notes:
• Modernism - an early twentieth-century artistic trend marked by the following characteristics: (1) the desire to break away from established traditions, (2) a quest to find fresh ways to view man's position or function in the universe [read "atheistic," (3) experiments in form and style, particularly with fragmentation--as opposed to the "organic" theories of literary unity appearing in the Romantic and Victorian periods (taken from Dr. Wheeler's Lit Terms)

• Irony

• Verbal
• Dramatic
• Situational (or Cosmic) 

• Tone (use link) 
• an author's underlying attitudes that control and color the story as a whole (both his characters and subject).
• Notice that the tone is an adjective: (e.g. formal or informal, playful, ironic, brooding, optimistic, hopeful, pessimistic, bitter, cynical, or sensual.) 

• Turn in your CWP Q4
• If I hand yours back, you'll need to reformat it and turn it in for a late grade.

• Poetry Recitations (any remaining?)

• "O, Dah-ling, these stories are so MAH-dahn!" Over the next two days we will be reading the stories below. Please feel free to take notes, jot down questions, record ideas, and ask yourself, "How is this story 'modern'?"

The Battle of London's Aftermath

• The Little Rascals, The Sandlot, you know the gangs you tried to start  when you were a kid . . . last year. Well, get ready for something (a gang) that's motivated by nothing (we'll explain later) by reading Graham Greene's (bio) "The Destructors" 

• "Should I stay or should I go?" Though England's punk band sent these sounds over the radio several decades ago, James Joyce's Evelin was asking the question long before. See what she ends up choosing as you read "Eveline" by James Joyce (bio)

• Ah, a fairy tale unlike any you've read before . . . unless you've read some of the original Brothers Grimm. Consider the moral of "Once upon a Time" by Nadine Gordimer (bio)

HW: I want you to read Gordimer's "Once upon a Time" (see the link above) and be ready to discuss it on Monday.