The Yellow wall paper computer animation movie

Movie made in flash video by U.S High school students.

The Yellow wallpaper short video

We watched a short video on the yellow wallpaper today. We noted that there were several things that were very different from the video and the actual book.

Some things that students came up with were:

- The names were different Elizabeth in the video Jane in the story
-John does not faint in the movie
- No baby in the movie
-The woman's illness seemed very serious, as compared to the story
-Elizabeth unlocks the door at the end in the movie-different from the story in which she tells John to find the key under a leaf.

HOMEWORK:
-Yellow wallpaper word search
-Questions #s 1-7 due next class on TUESDAY.

Rest Cure

The powerpoint was about the rest cure that was widely used
by Doctors in the 18th century.

Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell developed the rest cure.
He essentially imprisoned women for up to two months, and gave them little contact with the outside world.
In the first few weeks, women were not allowed to engage their minds by reading or performing small activities.
Most were even not allowed to roll over in their beds, suggesting that they may have been restrained.
The attempt to do brain work sooner or later brings on symptoms of exhaustion he thought.

HOMEWORK:
Finish the Yellow wallpaper questions due Sept.27.

Setting:New England

The New England presentations were in most part

very well done.

HOMEWORK:

-Complete the description/symbol sheet

We shall talk about 19th century medical practices next class!

The Yellow wallpaper radio play

The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Dramatized by Laura Harrington
Directed by David Zoffoli

CAST

Ann/Narrator
Sandra Shipley

John
Jeremiah Kissel

Jenny
Sheila Ferrini

Dr. Weir Mitchell
Richard McElvain

PRODUCTION STAFF

Executive Producer.
Valerie Henderson

Sound Engineer
Jeff Whitehead

Literary Director Rachel Kadish
Associate Producer Scott Burnham

HUMANITIES ADVISORS

Joan D. Hedrick
James A. Miller

Funded by The Connecticut Humanities Council

We listened to the radio play of THE YELLOW WALLPAPER.

New England
A region of the northeast United States comprising the modern-day states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

HOMEWORK

-Find 5 facts that relate to any part of life during the 19th

century in New England USA. Include 2 pictures in your

paper.

-Half page to one page.

The Mark Twain House and Museum (Hartford, CONNECTICUT)

Throughout his career, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) published more than 30 books, hundreds of short stories and essays and gave lecture tours around the world. By the end of his life in 1910, Clemens had become known as the quintessential American author having captured in his works the spirit, character and even dialect of a diverse nation. His writing also served to voice his running commentary on American society. Thinly veiled behind the mask of humor and satire, Clemens' writing often critiqued social morals, politics and human nature, making his literature a unique reflection of the American experience in the latter part of the nineteenth century.

Listening to The Yellow wallpaper

We listened to the Yellow wallpaper today.

HOMEWORK:

-Read Biography:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

-Write half a page to one page about your room.

Try to be very descriptive and include as many of the 5

senses as you can in your writing.

Welcome back!

Glad you all returned safely to school.

The Mockingbird songs were reallywell done!

Congrats to all class members for your efforts!!!

In class we talked about the Yellow wallpaper in our groups.

Please do the following for homework next class.

HOMEWORK:

-Make a character list/describe them

-What point of view is the story in?

-Setting/where/when..etc.

-Basic plot events/highlights

-Conflicts/problems

WE SHALL LISTEN TO THE STORY NEXT CLASS!

The Yellow Wallpaper

You will be reading an American Gothic short story titled

"THE YELLOW WALLPAPER" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
The story details in first-person (in the form of a series of journal entries) the descent into madness of a woman suffering from what her physician husband describes as a "temporary nervous depression — a slight hysterical tendency." The story hints that part of the woman's problem is that she recently gave birth to a child, insinuating she may be suffering from what would, in modern times, be called postpartum depression.

The narrator is confined in an upstairs room to recuperate by her well-meaning but dictatorial and oblivious husband, but this treatment only exacerbates her depression.

The room is decorated with yellow wallpaper that becomes the focal point of her insanity. She devotes many journal entries to obsessively describing the wallpaper — its "yellow" smell, its "breakneck", scrawling pattern, and the fact that it leaves yellow smears on the skin and clothing of anyone who touches it.

She also obsesses over the hatred she believes radiates from the room, supposing that it must have once been a nursery, and that the children who lived in it hated the wallpaper as much as she. She describes how the longer they stay in the bedroom, the more the wallpaper appears to mutate and change, especially in the moonlight.

I was able to check your Final exams!
Please pickup your tests in the Teacher's
room pickup box.

6 students got 90% or better!!!!
Everyone did pretty good!

Try these online questions to study!

Try these and test yourself!

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking/quiz.html

OR

http://www.quia.com/rr/88170.html

GOOD LUCK IN YOUR STUDY!!!

How Prejudice Affects the Way Scout Sees Things in To Kill a Mockingbird

Things Are Not Always What They Seem. . . .

•Main Plot:
•Atticus defends Tom Robinson.
•Subplot:
•Attempts to get Boo Radley to come out of his house
•Mrs. Dubose’s sickness and death
•The burning of Miss Maudie’s house

Central Conflicts:

•Atticus’s decision to defend Tom Robinson goes against the conventions of the community.
•Scout must come to terms with her father’s decision and the community’s opinions.
•Scout must learn to understand other people and accept their differences.

What Scout Learns:

•People are not always what they appear to be.
•Boo Radley is not the murderous character the town makes him out to be.
•Mrs. Dubose’s nastiness was the result of her addiction to morphine more than anything else.
•Mr. Raymond is not the town drunk, but letting people think so makes it easier for them to accept his eccentricities.

Jem becomes upset when the jury finds Tom Robinson guilty of rape.

The children learn quickly that prejudices often lead to miscarriages of justice.

They learn just how heroic their father is, too, because Atticus knew when he took the case that he would lose.

Several characters are sacrificed in the name of prejudice—Boo Radley doesn’t physically die, but he does come out of his house.

If Scout had made his part in her rescue public, she would have sacrificed her new-found friend. Tom Robinson is the most obvious example of the innocent who is sacrificed because of prejudice.

Although many characters in the novel share Atticus’s belief in Tom’s innocence, Scout learns that prejudice kills him anyway.

Harper Lee introduces the symbolism of the mockingbird in Chapter Ten of the novel. When Atticus gives Jem and Scout air rifles for Christmas, he warns them not to shoot the mockingbird.

He knows that they will be tempted to shoot birds, but he reminds them that songbirds are off limits to them. Miss Maudie reinforces Atticus’s orders by explaining the innocence of the mockingbird. According to Miss Maudie, mockingbirds are innocent creatures put on this earth to harm no one. They bring pleasure instead.

Harper Lee creates several mockingbirds in her novel. The most obvious mockingbird is Tom Robinson. He did not cause harm to anyone, but the jury condemned him guilty. Trying to escape from the work camp, Tom was shot and killed. An innocent man died because of the prejudice that existed in the community.

Boo Radley is the second mockingbird in the novel. However, Scout has learned her lesson by the end of the novel. She wants to introduce her new-found friend, Arthur Radley, to the world, but she realizes that such exposure was just like killing a mockingbird. It would be the deliberate destruction of an innocent being.

Empathy is the ability to feel another person’s emotional experiences. The phrase “I feel your pain” best expresses the concept of empathy. Prejudices often exist because there is the lack of empathy.

Atticus begins to teach Scout this lesson on the first day of Scout’s schooling. After a particularly difficult time with the new teacher, Atticus reminds her that the way to get along with people is to understand them by walking “around in” someone else’s skin.

Early in the novel when Scout is ready to quit school after a particularly difficult first day, Atticus tells her that if she could learn to empathize with other people, she would get along much better in the world. Calpurnia also helps her learn this lesson when Scout wants to know why Calpurnia seems to have two lives—one in the world of white people and another, foreign world to Scout, in the black community.

Calpurnia tells her that it is necessary to live these double lives in order not to hurt the people with whom she lives. It is only when Scout learns to put herself in someone else’s skin and walk around in it, does she really understand what Atticus has been trying to teach her all along.

Although Jem and Scout began the novel with preconceived notions of what courage is, they end with a completely different definition.

Atticus shows them through example that it takes courage to stand of up for one’s convictions even though that person is standing alone in the midst of his or her society. After Mrs. Dubose dies, Atticus reminds them that she is the true example of bravery by trying to defeat an addition even though she was dying. He does not want them to think of Atticus killing the rabid dog as true courage.

Even Boo Radley serves as an example of courage for Scout. He had to leave the shelter and safety of his house in order to save Scout and Jem from Bob Ewell.
These examples of courage also help Scout to overcome her prejudices and become more open-minded. And this is what the novel is about—the courage to face prejudices and leave them behind.

*FINAL EXAM NEXT CLASS IN ROOM N-204*

Symbolism of Innocence

The Snowman:

•One of the most profound pure symbols of race relations in the novel revolves around Jem and Scout's snowman.

•Since Alabama winters don’t produce enough snow to allow them to build a snowman entirely out of snow, Jem makes a foundation out of mud, covering it with the snow the children could scrape together.

•More likely, this act is symbolic of a blending of the “clean” snow and the “dirty” mud, both of which are natural substances, showing how similar humans are.

•The substance created by the mixing is different than, although not necessarily better or worse than, either mud or snow.

•Atticus approves of his son’s ingenuity as he says, “I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea."

•It is the idea, after all, the act of thinking, that separates intelligence from prejudice.

The snowman changes yet again as Miss Maudie Atkinson's house burns to the ground, melting the snow and leaving nothing but a clump of mud.

•At least the snowman had a short life as a mixed “creature,” enjoying the best of both worlds.

•In a sense, the snowman is like a mixed race child who inherits the good qualities of his white and black parent, but who is scorned by a society that blames him for his parents’ choices.

Explaining of Symbolism

•Atticus said that Jem could shoot all the cans he wanted to, but not to ever shoot a Mockingbird. It is connected to Tom because all Tom does is help people the best way he knows how.

•Another thing was that the bird and Tom didn’t hurt anyone, so there was and or is no reason that they should be shot.

•Atticus most likely also wanted to explain to Jem the importance of not shooting that bird because he didn’t want him to turn out like one of the people from the jury.

•In the symbolism that Miss Maudie uses she was just saying that they sang their hearts out for us and we shouldn't’t kill them.

•This is connected to Tom because all he does is work his heart out, and what does he get in return? Nothing! At least nothing but trouble and grief.

Chapter 31

We talked about Chapters 29-31.
The slideshow you saw was about
Symbolism of Innocence in To
Kill a Mockingbird.

HOMEWORK:
-Finish the Scottsboro Trials
reading and Questions for next
class.

Chapter 31
Summary:
Scout asks Boo if he'd like to say good night to Jem. Boo doesn't say a word; he just nods. Scout sees that Boo would like to reach out and touch Jem, and tells him he can. She shows him how to gently stroke Jem's hair. After Boo does this, she perceives that he wants to leave, and she leads him to the porch, where he asks her in a near-whisper, "Will you take me home?" She accepts, and allows him to escort her down the block, just like a lady should. She leads him home and he goes inside his house and shuts the door. The narrator, speaking as an older Scout, says she never saw him again.

Standing on Boo’s porch, Scout look out over the neighborhood imagining how Boo must have seen it, and how, for all these years, he watched over "his" children. Back home, Scout sits with Atticus, who begins to read her one of the scary children's stories he has picked up, which ironically mirrors the story of Boo Radley. Scout says she wasn't scared by the night’s events, saying just as Jem had on their fateful walk home, that "nothing's really scary ‘cept in books." She falls asleep while Atticus reads to her, and wakes up while he carries her to bed. She tells him she was listening all the time, and that the book is about a character who was chased and caught and then found to be innocent and "real nice." Atticus tells her, "most people are, when you finally see them." Atticus then spends the rest of the night by Jem’s side.

Analysis:
Scout finally acts the part of the hospitable Southern lady in assisting Boo around the house and seeing him home. She interacts with him in a serious and grown-up fashion. Though she runs to tell Jem when she first discovers Boo is in their house, she reacts against this childish reflex and tactfully gives Boo his privacy. Scout has learned how to be a guide for others, as shown by her symbolic act of leading Boo to safety. She can visualize things from his perspective now, as Atticus once advised her to do, and from his front porch, she imagines how he has seen the years pass, and watched herself, Jem and Dill grow up. In this reflective moment, Scout also neatly summarizes the events of the book, reminding the reader of all that passed for her and her family to reach this point.

Scout shows that even though she has discovered that people (Mr. Ewell) can be evil in unfathomable ways, she still upholds her faith in humankind and can face anything with courage. Unlike Dill, she finds that the real world does follow patterns, and once one knows them, the world of fantasy and books is the only place where real fear can exist. Despite her growth and maturation, Scout is still a child at only eight years old, and we last see her as she falls asleep in her father’s arms. The author very carefully avoids giving the reader any information about Scout’s future. Instead, we are left with an image of Scout when she is discovering fundamental truths about the world. She understands that the world carries both good and evil, and has an unshakable faith in the inherent goodness of “folks”.

Chapter 30

Chapter 30
Summary:
The doctor returns and everyone moves to the back porch. Trying to be as friendly as possible, Scout leads Boo to the porch and assists him into a rocking chair placed in a darker corner, where she thinks he will feel most comfortable. As she helps Boo along, she feels the odd sensation of her fantasy about finding him sitting on the porch one day coming true. Meanwhile, the others are discussing who killed Mr. Ewell. Atticus thinks that Jem must have done it since Scout named Jem as her protector in her story. However, the sheriff insists continually that Mr. Ewell fell onto his knife and killed himself, which irritates Atticus, who wants Jem to be treated as fairly as anyone else and not have exceptions made. After much arguing, finally the sheriff yells out that he's not trying to protect Jem (he is trying to protect Boo). The sheriff urges Atticus, this once, to accept the situation even if it's not perfect according to law: Mr. Ewell was responsible for Tom's death, and the sheriff urges Atticus to "let the dead bury the dead." He says that it would be a sin to drag shy Boo Radley out into the limelight, and declares officially that Mr. Ewell fell on his own knife. Atticus, deeply moved by this revelation, asks Scout if she understands. Scout assures him that she does, explaining that having it another way would be like shooting a mockingbird. Atticus looks at Scout with a sense of wonder, and thanks Boo for the lives of his children.

Analysis:
Atticus is trying to uphold the law by demanding that Jem be brought to trial for the crime of murdering Mr. Ewell, not realizing that the sheriff is trying to protect Boo. As seen before in the case of the Ewell's, who are allowed to hunt in season, the law must be bent in order to protect certain people; in this case Boo needs protection. When Atticus understands the sheriff’s motivation, he relents, realizing that it is in everyone's best interests to allow Boo to unofficially punish the Ewell's for the crime of trying to send Tom to his death. By this point, the "mockingbird" theme has already been made clear, but this chapter rehashes the idea that the innocent should not suffer in the hands of the powerful. When Scout compares putting Boo on trial to shooting a mockingbird, she again demonstrates her newfound maturity and adult understanding. Scout understands it is necessary to prevent Boo from receiving excessive public attention, and that Boo should be allowed to live the quiet life he has always known. She knows that at heart, Boo is a good