Academic Exercise

Read Judges chapter 19. Explain how this allusion adds meaning to “Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates. (10 minutes)

Today in A.P. Senior English

Academic Exercise (10 minutes)Joyce Carol Oates and

Contextual Information (20 minutes)Group Work/Presentations/Discussion

(50 minutes)

Monday October 8, 2007

Core Content

RD-09-3.0.6 Students will analyze the relationship between a speaker’s or character’s motivation and behavior in a passage, as revealed by the dilemmas.

RD-09-5.0.3 Students will analyze the author’s

use of literary devices in a passage (e.g., symbolism, irony, analogies, imagery, figurative language).

Joyce Carol Oates

“We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”Henry James quote above the desk of Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

•Grew up in the countryside of Lockport, New York•Working class upbringing•One room schoolhouse in elementary school.•Received typewriter at 14 and began writing “novel after novel”

J.C.O.• Valedictorian Syracuse Univ.• Master’s in English at Univ. of Wisconsin• There, she met and married her husband,

Raymond Smith, after 3 months• Settled in Detroit• 1968-78 published 2-3 books/year while

maintaining full academic career at Univ. Windsor, Canada

• 1978 – present – began teaching at Princeton Univ.

Fun Facts

• Has written some books as “Rosamond Smith” and “Lauren Kelly”.

• Mentored Jonathan Safran Foer during his time at Princeton.

• Dedicated “WAYGWHYB” to Bob Dylan.

Joyce Carol Oates - Major Works

• http://jco.usfca.edu/awards/index.html

Article from Life Magazine

Scan this handout and look for similarities in today’s story by Joyce Carol Oates and this 1966 Life magazine story of Charles Schmid, a serial killer.

1960’s CultureThe sixties were the age of youth, as 70 million children from thepost-war baby boom became teenagers and young adults. Themovement away from the conservative fifties continued andeventually resulted in revolutionary ways of thinking and realchange in the cultural fabric of American life. No longer contentto be images of the generation ahead of them, young peoplewanted change. The changes affected education, values,lifestyles, laws, and entertainment. Many of the revolutionaryideas which began in the sixties are continuing to evolve today.

Music in the 1960’s

• America was ready for a change • Tamla Motown Record Company came on the

scene, specializing in black rhythm and blues, aided in the emergence of female groups as well as some black men

• Bob Dylan helped bring about a folk music revival, along with Joan Baez and Peter, Paul & Mary.

• The Beach Boys began recording music that appealed to high schoolers.

Music (continued)

• The Beatles, from England, burst into popularity with innovative rock music that appealed to all ages.

• Drug scene greatly influenced music• Acid Rock, highly amplified and improvisational, and the

more mellow psychedelic rock gained prominence. • Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead grew out of the

counterculture in 1967. Woodstock, the musical phenomena of the decade -three day music festival -drew 400,000 hippies and featured peace, love, and happiness...and LSD.

• Folk music contributed to the counterculture. • The modular synthesizer (aka moog synthesizer), marked

a major change in serious music.

It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue by Bob Dylan

• You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last.But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast.Yonder stands your orphan with his gun,Crying like a fire in the sun.Look out the saints are comin' throughAnd it's all over now, Baby Blue.

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense.Take what you have gathered from coincidence.The empty-handed painter from your streetsIs drawing crazy patterns on your sheets.This sky, too, is folding under youAnd it's all over now, Baby Blue.

All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home.All your reindeer armies, are all going home.The lover who just walked out your doorHas taken all his blankets from the floor.The carpet, too, is moving under youAnd it's all over now, Baby Blue.

Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.The vagabond who's rapping at your doorIs standing in the clothes that you once wore.Strike another match, go start anewAnd it's all over now, Baby Blue.

J.C.O. on Dylan’s Song

• http://jco.usfca.edu/ondylan.html

• (click on JCO picture)

Discussion on the Academic Exercise

• A woman’s adulterous elopement from her husband.

• His reconciliation to her.• Journey he took to fetch her home. • Her father's kind entertainment of him. • Decision to travel to Gibeah • Natives from the city would not invite them in. • A man who was not a native of the city invited

them to stay in his home. • Making merry, they were interrupted by the

men of the city requesting that the old man give them the man to rape him.

• Old man offers his own daughter and the man’s concubine.

• They take the concubine and gang rape her to the point of death.

• Man chops her body in 12 pieces and gives them to all of the coasts of Israel.

How does the allusion of Judges Chapter 1add meaning to the story?

Group Work

Each group will be given a topic for discussion. In your group you will:1. Identify text that relates to your topic. 2. Discuss how it creates meaning in the story.

Topics from the Story

• Music• Language (Connie, Arnold, Narrator, etc.)• Child’s perspective• Connie’s changing• Connie’s detachment• Car imagery• Physical description of Arnold Friend• Use of space (when she’s inside, outside, spatial relationship

between characters)• Role of her big sister

Homework

• Make sure that you submit your personal literary portfolio piece by 11:30 p.m. tonight.

• Read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” and complete a story card.

• Read very carefully, perhaps twice.

References

www.jco.usfca.edu/life/www.time.com/time/magazine/article/

09171,899071,00http://www.ccel.org/ccel/henry/mhc2.vii.xxwww.christnotes.org/commentarywww.greatdreams.com/lessons/oldtesthttp://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade60.html