ENGLISH 4 LIVE LESSONS!

Spoon River Anthology and Collaboration

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• Take notes• Today’s session will be about 1 hour.

Session ObjectivesToday you will be able to:

•Work with other students.•Analyze the text to determine themes.•Understand different perspective.•Use compare and contrast strategies.

Why is this Live Lesson Important?

• LACC.RI.1112.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

• LACC.SL.1112.1a Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on- one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 11–12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

Which of the following applies to you?

A. I love social media and I post every dayB. I use social media but I only post occasionally C. I have a social media account but I rarely post

D. I could care less about social media

Social Media: Does it help or hurt relationships?

What do you think about relationships in the early 1900s compared to today?

A. Love was more genuineB. People were happier in their marriages

C. Divorce was frowned uponD. People didn’t marry for love

What’s going on in the picture?

How do you know?

Edgar Lee Masters, Playwright

Published in 1915

A collection of narratives from individual poems written as epitaphs from residents of a

small town in Illinois.

What’s an Epitaph?Pic up the mic and tell us what you know!

What’s an Epitaph?A phrase or statement written in memory of a

person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone.

VideoMr. and Mrs. Merritt and a (19 yr. old lover)

Video RecapWhat can we infer happened between Mr. and

Mrs. Merritt and Elmer?

VideoMr. and Mrs. Purkapiles

Video RecapWhat do we learn about Mrs. Purkapile’s

response to her husband’s lies regarding the sanctity of marriage?

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Comprehension Check

Which is true?A.Mr. Purkapile was captured by piratesB.Mrs. Merritt is responsible for her husband’s deathC.Mr. Merritt wanted to kill Mrs. Merritt’s loverD.I am unsure and still have questions. Help!

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Ollie and Fletcher McGee-third and fourth poems of Spoon River Anthology

Have you seen walking through the villageA man with downcast eyes and haggard face?That is my husband who, by secret crueltyNever to be told, robbed me of my youth and my beauty;

Till at last, wrinkled and with yellow teeth,And with broken pride and shameful humility, I sank into the grave.

But what think you gnaws at my husband’s heart?The face of what I was, the face of what he made me!

These are driving him to the place where I lie.In death, therefore, I am avenged.

Ollie

Have you seen walking through the villageA man with downcast eyes and haggard face?That is my husband who, by secret crueltyNever to be told, robbed me of my youth and my beauty;

Till at last, wrinkled and with yellow teeth,And with broken pride and shameful humility, I sank into the grave.

But what think you gnaws at my husband’s heart?The face of what I was, the face of what he made me!

These are driving him to the place where I lie.In death, therefore, I am avenged.

Underline words/phrases that reveal Ollie’s

thoughts regarding her relationship.

Underline words/phrases that reveal Ollie’s

thoughts regarding her relationship.

She took my strength by minutes,She took my life by hours,She drained me like a fevered moonThat saps the spinning world.The days went by like shadows,The minutes wheeled like stars.She took the pity from my heart, And made it into smiles.She was a hunk of sculptor’s clay,My secret thoughts were fingers:They flew behind her pensive browAnd lined it deep with pain.They set the lips, and sagged the cheeks,And drooped the eye with sorrow.My soul had entered in the clay,Fighting like seven devils.It was not mine, it was not hers;She held it, but its strugglesModeled a face she hated,And a face I feared to see.I beat the windows, shook the bolts.I hid me in a cornerAnd then she died and haunted me,And hunted me for life.

Fletcher

She took my strength by minutes,She took my life by hours,She drained me like a fevered moonThat saps the spinning world.The days went by like shadows,The minutes wheeled like stars.She took the pity from my heart, And made it into smiles.She was a hunk of sculptor’s clay,My secret thoughts were fingers:They flew behind her pensive browAnd lined it deep with pain.They set the lips, and sagged the cheeks,And drooped the eye with sorrow.My soul had entered in the clay,Fighting like seven devils.It was not mine, it was not hers;She held it, but its strugglesModeled a face she hated,And a face I feared to see.I beat the windows, shook the bolts.I hid me in a cornerAnd then she died and haunted me,And hunted me for life.

Underline words/phrases that reveal Fletcher’s

thoughts regarding her relationship.

Underline words/phrases that reveal Fletcher’s

thoughts regarding her relationship.

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Comprehension Check Fletcher viewed his wife as a hunk of sculptor’s clay means:A.He had power over her.B.He made it his mission to make her miserable.C.Both A and BD.I am unsure and still have questions. Help!

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Compare/ContrastDo you see changes in dynamics regarding relationships/marriages today in the 21st century, compared the couples in “Spoon

River Anthology?”

John & Abigail Adams 1800’s

John & Jackie Kennedy 1960

Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie 2015

Homer & Marge Simpson Timeless

Compare/Contrast

Are the changes you see in relationships good or bad?

ThemeWhat are some of the themes Masters is

portraying? Are these themes still relevant today? What do you think Masters would think

about social media and relationships?

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Comprehension Check

A.Women’s opinions were not important.B.Men did not have much respect for women.C.Both A and BD.I am unsure and still have questions. Help!

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Collaboration ProductWrite a paragraph response (5 sentences per paragraph in length) about the

literature we discussed today. Please answer the following question with specific details from the text.

Submit the date and time of the session you attended.

Collaboration ReflectionWrite a paragraph response (5 sentences per paragraph in length) about our session today and working with other students.

Be sure to answer all of the following questions.Submit the date and time of the session you attended.

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Congrats!In today’s session, you completed:

Collaboration Product and Reflection

What is a woman to do when, for the most part,

her only option is to endure?