The Diary of Anne Frank By Frances Goodrich and Albert Hacket Literature Circle Packet Common Core Objectives: RL 2 Determine a theme of a text and analyze its development‚ including its relationship to the characters‚ setting‚ and plot. RL 10 Read and comprehend dramas. L 4 Determine and clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases Directions for this packet: Most of this packet is designed for you‚ the reader‚ to read and acknowledge the concepts listed
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Jonathan West The authors Jonathan Haidt and Cornel West are two authors that in fact happen to both be professors at major colleges that somewhat recently have written the works The Righteous Mind and “The Moral Obligations of Living in a Democratic Society”. A lot of similarities are found between the two authors; one of them being that their works are based generally about calling to action for change in America in how it functions but they do differ in the way they deliver their
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For this discussion‚ I will be analyzing the poem Anne Bradstreet’s‚ “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House‚ July 10th‚ 1666.” Anne Bradstreet was the first woman to publish a book of poetry in the British colonies. Anne Bradstreet goes to sleep one night and wakes up in the middle of the night saying fire. The sound that woke her up was the thud ring noise which was the sound of her house burning down. Anne Bradstreet leaves her house and watches outside her house and all of her
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Jonathan Swift’s Story “Satire is a sort of glass‚ wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.” What Swift is trying to convey through this quote is that when people are being satirical and expressing their comments of society‚ they tend to see all the flaws so clearly‚ like a glass. Yet‚ when people do this they don’t pay attention to what they are doing. Jonathan Swift is one of the world’s best satirist and poet‚ born in Dublin‚ Ireland to Abigail Erick Swift and
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Part I: Short Answer Answer the questions below on The Scarlet Letter and "In Reference to Her Children." Be sure to write your answers in complete sentences. 1. Explain the metaphor Bradstreet uses in the poem for her children. Give at least two specific examples from the poem. An example of a metaphor in Bradstreet’s poem would be that she compares her children as to baby birds that live in a nest. Another example is that she compares them growing up to a bird leaving the nest to take flight
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Death at an Early Age: The Review Brandon Kennedy I am reviewing Jonathan Kozol’s auto-biography‚ Death at an Early Age. This piece of literature provides the reader with an in-depth‚ personable account of schools of the 1960’s and the corruption that had flourished. Throughout this piece Kozol told of grim stories about public schools throughout Boston‚ Massachusetts; many of which would be incredibly disturbing. I believe Kozol’s thesis was the following: although legal segregation had been
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Allegra Borges Mr. Cunic American Literature Honors 801 20 September 2013 Prompt: Think about the major Puritan beliefs as you re-read this poem. What philosophical beliefs about God and the purpose of human life are reflected in Bradstreet’s poem? In the poem “The Burning of Our House‚” author Anne Bradstreet wakes up in the middle of the night to discover that her house has caught on fire. Anne Bradstreet was a woman born into a family of Puritans and then married a Puritan man. Being of Puritan
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Amber Kogut 10 AC Eng 2nd Period Mr. Evans January 16‚ 2013 The Diary of Anne Frank vs. Night The Holocaust was a terrible and devastating event that happened in the 1930’s that lasted until the 1940’s. This genocide‚ led by Adolf Hitler‚ captured many men‚ women and their children; this included Anne Frank and Elie Weisel. These two children were of many who suffered through the terrible occurrences of the Holocaust‚ and wrote about their experiences that were shared with the world. Their
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Anne Frank Book vs Movie In the movie Anne Frank it was very interesting. At first I noticed it really wasn’t the same as the book. The Van Danns had different last names and some people changed. I thought that the movie was good because I could see how everything was and I was able to have a picture in my head of what was going on. I liked seeing how it was back then and what they went through. In the beginning of the movie and book Anne was pretty wealthy. Once the war started they went into
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Rhetorical Devices used by Jonathan Edward In “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” During the Great Awaking on July 8‚ 1741 a minister named Jonathan Edwards preached a sermon of warning to all sinners called “Sinner in the Hand of an Angry God”. Edwards’s sermon brought people of all kinds to tears and to collapse in dread. In Edwards’s sermon he preaches the greats fear of all sinners‚ full of hellish metaphors‚ loaded diction‚ and vivid imagery to scare all sinners into being reborn. One
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