English Notes

[elijahlee]

Hey guys, midterm on monday, use these notes if you want to that I typed up. Check out the background notes too on her site on this page: englishwithmsboyd.weebly.com/background-notes2.html
Good luck, happy studying.
Oh, and make sure to check out the textbook, and be able to answer 10 questions for all stories.
Check the attachment AT THE BOTTOM of this post if you can, the notes below are not formatted and are missing stuff.

Forms of Literature
Myth- explains unexplainable
 Creation Myth (Origin) e.g. Genesis, Creation Hymn
Heroic Lit., Epic – adventure of heroes
 Ramayana, Odyssey, Illiad, Gilgamesh, Hancock
Sacred Lit. – spoken to a god, performed during religious ceremony
 Psalms, Burial hymn
Wisdom Lit. – teaches something about morality and ethics in a specific culture
 Parables, Ruth, Poor Richard’s Almanac
Folk Tale – ordinairy people have extraordinary teachings happen, and contains humor, exaggeration, and magic
 Cinderella, Trickster Tales

6 Step Process
1) Predict – Predict what story is about
2) Question – there are 8/10 you should have
A. Form
B. Themes
C. Mood/Tone
D. Conflict (internal, external, how are they resolved)
E. Symbolism
F. Literary Elements
G. Culture
H. Author
I. 2 more critical thinking questions e.g. turning point and in character’s shoes
3) Visualize – movie happening in head, descriptive paragraph
4) Connect – 2/3 connections
A. Personal
B. Society
C. Other Literature
5) Clarify – Difficulties understanding, based on context -> new meaning
6) Evaluate – 5 paragraph essay
A. Argue something
B. Arguments based on theme

Ancient Egypt
Dynasty – period with ruling by series of rulers from one bloodline
Kingdom – series of strong dynasties
Intermediate / Transition period – series of weak dynasties
Old kingdom / intermediate period / Middle Kingdom / intermediate period / New Kingdom
King Menes – First king of first dynasty
 Unified upper and lower kingdom
 Scorpion king
Pyramids of Giza, Great Pyramids
New Kingdoms time of most prosperity
What makes a successful empire?
 Trade
 Strong leaders
 Strong military
 Education
 Conquering other territories
Life and the afterlife – live for the afterlife
All aspects of life connected with preparation for the afterlife
 Come up with a couple examples
Osiris
 Old Kingdom – pharaoh can only reincarnate as Osiris
 Middle Kingdom – pharaoh and nobility can only reincarnate as Osiris
 New Kingdom – anyone who has lived a good life can reincarnate as Osiris
Social Hierarchy
Pharoah divine, a god
Hatshepsut – Female pharaoh
 Baby boy too young to rule, took over
Rosetta Stone – greek, demotic, Egyptian
 Helped crack code of hieroglyphics
Katoush – jargon

Ancient Hebrews
Abraham
Moses
Exodus
King David
Solomon – Temple of Solomon, sacked by Assyrians, had 10 commandments inside
Hebrew land divided into Judea and Israel
Dead Sea Scrolls
Ethnically based / not geographically based
Abrahamic religions – Islam, Christianity, Judaism
Bible was library for Hebrews, kept writing in one book
How a kingdom falls:
 Internal strife
 Weak leaders
 Natural disasters
 Rebellion
 Weak to outside attack

Ancient India
3 major gods
 Vishnu – protector
 Creates incarnations to protect people
 Shiva – destroyer
 Phallux symbol
 Shiva stories, look some up
 Brahma – creator
Linga – linga itself is shiva
Ganesh – elephant head
Indra – god of thunder, rides white elephant and has scepter
 Gave charioteer to Rama
Hinduism v. Buddhism
 Buddhism rejects caste system
 Hinduism reincarnation until nirvana
Buddhism v. Jeynism
 Jeynism all living things have souls
 Ex) can’t even kill mosquitoes
Caste system based on purusha, the first man

 Brahmins / head / white
 Kshartriyas / arms / red
 Vaisyas / thighs / yellow
 Sudras / feet / black
 Outcasts are not part of body
 Dealt with excrement/dead things, had terrible duties in society, normally took jobs such as gravedigger and butcher
Women (p.107)
Rig Veda (pre-hinduism, Hinduism based on this)
 Mahabrata – epic
 Ramayana

Ancient Greece
Epics from heroic age
 Myceneans – Illiad
 Battle of Troy in 1250 BCE
City-state
Sparta v. Athens
Persian Wars
Peloponnesian Wars- Sparta v. Athens
 Sparta wins
Hellenistic Age – Alexander the Great
 Conquest started by Alexander the Great’s father, Phillip II
 Aristotle was Alex’s mentor
Aristocrats, nobility
Zeus – god of the sky and thunder
Hera – marriage
Apollo – sun and art
Ares – war
Politics – Sparta v. Athens
Sophists- teachers
Olympics- every 4 years, stopped wars to play these games
Perfection, achieving the ideal state
Parthenon – super temple
Acropolis – temple @ highest point of city
Women subordinate to men

19th century Norway
Women rights – 1907
Men rights – 1889
Used religion to reinforce subordinate position of women, same with Hebrews
 Women came from man’s rib. Thus, subordinate position in society

5th period random mishmash of information from presentations
Ganesh – elephant guy
 Polytheistic religion, karma

Achilles – Greek Religious festivals
Helots- foreigners
Pottery – painted
Bread/wine/fruit

Helen of Troy – Zeus, Queen Leta parents
Two stories:
 Leta wouldn’t cheat, Zeus disguised himself as swan
 Leta many lovers, pregnant by one, said to husband Zeus got her pregnant
Helen had her many lovers take oath to protect her. Out of lovers she chose Meneleus to protect her (the king of Sparta)
Helen portrayed as seducer
Olive oil and lead based makeup

Ravana –
sacrificial rites,
cows sacred
20 hands – desire for more in life
10 heads – intelligence

Vikings
Black death killed half population
 Nobles forced to work,
Social hierarchy
Evangelical Lutheran, 16th century
1884- women’s rights
Halling dance, oldest dance in N Europe, for weddings and other things

Doll’s House Maid
Gov’t subsidized farmers
Industrial revolution
 Middle class formed
Menstruation was a deformity
Pioneer of new expression – Scream (Edward Munch)
Realism

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[elijahlee]

sorry guys, going to bump this thread. and ask the fifth period class maybe to put up some notes about fourth period class presentations? just give an overview of what she wants us to know about 4th period pressentations, which i don't have.

[delmanykkfs]

Thanks man ahahahahaha

[sammy576]

Thanks Elijah you saved ma life!!