November 30th and December 1st

1. By reviewing the Ancient India notes and reading, you will need to come up with ten general statements that you feel address the meaning and purpose of the information that you read...  Think of the most important things that come from this time period that reveals the bigger picture. Think of us sitting down at the dinner table and I am asking you what you learned about Ancient Indian Civilization from your reading. These will be YOUR statements... not the book's. You will put these 10 statements in your notes. Leave room.

2. Then you will need to gather direct evidence after you have made this statement.

This will look like this:

The literature from this time period was utilized by the people as a way to teach social, political, and historical guidelines.

- "India's great national epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, describe political struggles and also explain important social and religious concepts" (104).

- ". . . Kautila, wrote a 'how-to' handbook for emperors, called the Arthasastra" (105).

- "Around the first century B.C., the Laws of Manu set down a detailed code of conduct for Hindus" (107).

3. When you are done with this, you can start studying for your quiz on Friday.

Class: November 29th

1. Read pages 102-111 and 120-121. Take VERY good notes.  Remember ANNOTATION and CORNELL NOTES.
2. You will have a quiz on Wednesday/Thursday.

Class: Monday, November 28th

1. Adding to your notes on the EPIC and MYTH, please write down the next literary term:

Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication wherein knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved and transmitted orally from one generation to another. The transmission is through speech or song and may include folktales, ballads, chants, prose or verses.

Please read through the following handout... take notes accordingly.

Characteristics of ORAL COMPOSITION

2. You will be gathering specific evidence from the text of Gilgamesh. Notice you are developing on the idea that these components exist  and moving on to now what is their impact and how they interact. Your notes will look like big headings and bulleted supporting conclusions with specific evidence for the following two prompts....

How do myths, archetypes, epics, and the oral tradition associate with one another? How do they diverge? Closely examine the characteristics of each major concept and look for common ground in their make-up. How do they differ?

AND

How does HISTORICAL CONTEXT tie into these literary/cultural concepts?

This is a thinking exercise. You have been presented with a lot of new information and technical components that help you understand these concepts. This exercise is designed for you to start looking at the big picture and how these concepts interact with one another.

For class: Monday, November 21st

We will be adding two new literary genre/structures for Monday. As you review both, hopefully you will see how they link to archeytpes.

1.Open the link to EPIC notes... not that the notes are epic..  well, they kind of are... but they are notes on the literary EPIC. EPIC NOTES

The Epic
* A long narrative poem, derived from the ancient oral tradition, telling the deeds and adventures of a heroic or legendary figure, or the history of a nation.

Please have EPIC notes in YOUR epic notebooks for class on Monday, November 18th.

2. Please have the following notes on MYTH in your notes for Monday, also.

The Myth 

* Myth is a constant among all human being in all times. The pattern stories, even details contained in myth are found everywhere and among every one. This is because myth is a shared heritage of ancestral memories, related consciously from generation to generation.

1. Myth may even be part of the structure of our unconscious mind, possibly encoded in our genes. eg. "the Oedipus complex" and "the Electra complex"

2. Myth is a telling of events that happened before written history, and of a sense of what is to come.
3. Myth is the thread that holds past, present, and future together.

4. Myth is a unique use of language that describes the realities beyond our five senses.  It fills the gaps between the images of the unconscious and the language of conscious logic.

5. Myth is the glue that holds societies together; it is the basis of identity for communities, tribes, and nations.  (Hero worship and gender, social, national identity)

6. Myth is an essential ingredient in all codes of moral conduct.   The rules for living have always derived their legitimacy from their origins in myth and religion.

7. Myth is a pattern of beliefs that give meaning to life. Myth enables individuals and societies to adapt to their respective environments with identity and value. (Joseph Campbell--the power of myth)

PURPOSE:
Myths tell us about:
1. Our relationship with each other.
2. Our relationship with a god(s) and the cosmos.
3. Our relationship with the natural world and the species that inhabit it.

Class: Wednesday/Thursday, November 16th and 17th

1. Coming to class today, you should have your archetype notes on Lord of the Ring and Gilgamesh. You will be constructing a presentation in Google Slides addressing the following question:

How do archetypes provide a reader more insight/meaning to a text?

2. To do this you will need to utilize your notes and the examples you have discovered in the two texts. Your slides will need to address the following:

• Title slide with academic/MLA formatted title
• Introduction explaining the definition of archetypes.
• What is your answer to the above question- Write as a thesis statement

The bulk of your presentation will be the explanation of your 12 archetypes (What, how, why)

• Explain the "what": Explain each archetype type (the general purpose) 
• Explain the "how": Show how your answer is true with specific examples from the two texts. 
• Explain the "why": . Provide an explanation of how this archetype provides a reader with more insight into the text (supporting your literary argument). 
• Reflection upon this experience. What did you learn? How did archetypes frame your understanding of the texts.. people... situations.. life differently? 
• Images that promote your archetypes... characters... situations.... symbols
• Textual evidence that is cited correctly.  (Parenthetical citation)
• Works cited slide (last slide) 

How you break down your slides will be somewhat up to you. You may group by "types" of archetypes and dedicate a slide per example... include both texts.  Obviously, title, intro, thesis... will be in the beginning... Works cited at the end.

3. Presentations will be uploaded to Google Classroom by the end of class on 
Monday, November 21st

How to cite a film from the OWL: 

List films by their title. Include the name of the director, the film studio or distributor, and the release year. If relevant, list performer names after the director's name.

The Usual Suspects. Directed by Bryan Singer, performances by Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin, and Benecio del Toro, Polygram, 1995.

A Work in an Anthology, Reference, or Collection

Works may include an essay in an edited collection or anthology, or a chapter of a book. The basic form is for this sort of citation is as follows:

Last name, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection, edited by Editor's Name(s), Publisher, Year, Page range of entry.

Due: November 16th/17th

1. Make sure that your notes are complete with the archetypes (character, symbolic, and situational) and the examples from Lord of the Rings. Remember, to try to have 4 per type of archetype.

2. As I instructed on Monday, you should be looking for these identified archetypes in Gilgamesh. It doesn't mean that each archetype that you find in LOTR is definitively in Gilgamesh, but many will be found in both texts. When you find the archetype in Gilgamesh, write down the examples from how it is seen in the text in your notes. We will be using your notes for the assignment you receive on Wednesday/Thursday.

As always, if you need any help, come see me during Bronco Time!

Class today: November 9th

1. Mosul article questions due at the beginning of class.

2. Fellowship of the Ring presentation assignment.

Here is, yet again, a great list of major archetypes: Archetypes: Situational, Symbolic, Character

We will be watching J.R.R. Tolkien's, Fellowship of the Ring. As we watch, you will need to find examples of 4 Character Archetypes, 4 Situational Archetypes, and 4 Symbolic Archetypes.  As you find these comparable archetype examples in the film, you will need to also jot down specific examples of HOW these are specifically seen in the film.

When we conclude watching the film, we will be looking for the archetypes in Gilgamesh.  You will then be constructing a presentation explaining how archetypes are seen and utilized in Fellowship and Gilgamesh. 

Class today: November 7th

1.  Open Google Earth for Chromebook-   Find Mosul, Iraq.  Look around for a while. Think about what you have read about Ancient Mesopotamia. You will see the Tigris River running through the area.

2. Mosul- Wikipedia

3. Read the current article: Iraqi Forces Hit with Intense Fight- Mosul

    Write down the following questions and your answers on paper to turn in to me:

• What is the main idea/purpose of this article?
• Can you find/jot down the sentence or sentences that propose this main idea?
• What three points do you feel are the most important for understanding this article?
• What three examples do you feel are the strongest or most significant to this article?
• Does the author try to persuade you in any way? How?
• How do statistics and data support the author's perspective?
• Do you find the author's evidence convincing? Explain.
• What new information did you learn? How can you apply this information to an issue or problem in today's world?
• How did this new information change your way of thinking about this subject?
• What words, phrases, statements does the author use that caught your attention? Why? How did they make you feel? What did they make you think?
• Were there any photographs, illustrations, charts, graphs, or diagrams that were important? Select two or three and show what you learned from them and explain why you believe each one was important.
• Did the reading leave you with unanswered questions? What are these?
• How did you connect to the piece? Was it personal? Was it an issue that affects your community and the world? Explain.
• How do you feel that this article connects to what we are studying currently?

Class today: November 4th

We will be working with the literary device, ARCHETYPES, today.

The questions we will be addressing:
1. What is the archetype type?
2. Is it a character, situational, thematic, symbolic archetype? 
3. How is this archetype seen in Gilgamesh? 
4. What textual evidence reveal this archetype's usage? 
5. What is the significance or the implications of this archetype to the text's meaning? 
6. How can this archetype's usage be seen in another text similar to how it is used in Gilgamesh? 

As you see, the questions are color coded to our big 3 questions: WHAT? HOW? WHY? 

For Monday, November 7th: In Google Classroom, you will need to present 4 archetypes in this format. Upload a Google Document by class on Monday. 

Class today: November 2nd/3rd

We will be working with the devices: Historical Context and Archetypes today

1. Review the definition of Historical Context. Open the following assignment. You will use your notes from the introductory reading of Mesopotamia. (Again, this is why we start with notes on the reading).  We are looking at the historical aspects of Mesopotamia and starting to make the connections to the evolution of the Gilgamesh text. 

Historical Context- Mesopotamia Assignment

2. Now, in your notes, prepare the following questions:
- How do archetypes influence my understanding of a text? (what is a text, again?)
- Where have I seen examples of these archetypes in my world beyond a literary text?
Examples. Lots!

3.  FINALLY, In your notes, you will be collecting examples of Archetypes in Gilgamesh.  Collect of list of the different types of archetypes that you see.

In your notes, reflect upon the final question:
 How does the study of archetypes tie into my previous question about history, religion, art, culture, etc?

Class today: November 1st

Welcome to NOVEMBER!

1. In your notes, jot down some basic characteristics of the Mesopotamian/Egyptian/Hebraic eras- Meaning, how would you describe them, generally?

HISTORICAL CONTEXT: The influence of a time period on the author and his/her work.

ARCHETYPE: A repeated pattern found in art, literature, history, politics.

2. Read and take notes over the following link: Jung and Archetypes
- This is an author's personal website where he explains his research topics. This is a good introduction to Jung, the brilliant mind credited for the study of archetypes.

3. Now that your interest is peaked, review the following lists of archetypes:
Archetype list #1
Archetype list #2

*If you are needing a more general introduction and clarity on archetypes and/or Jung:
Jung- Wikipedia
Archetype- Wikipedia
(notice.. a turn to Wikipedia for generalized information)

WE WILL DO THE FOLLOWING AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS ON WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY:

4. Now, in your notes, prepare the following questions:
- How do archetypes influence my understanding of a text? (what is a text, again?)
- Where have I seen examples of these archetypes in my world beyond a literary text?
Examples. Lots!

5.  FINALLY, In your notes, you will be collecting examples of Archetypes in Gilgamesh.  Collect of list of the different types of archetypes that you see.

- How does the study of archetypes tie into my previous question about history, religion, art, culture, etc?