ISACS Survey

• On the Edline homepage, there is a link to the survey

• All answers are – Important– Anonymous

• 20-45 minutes

DNP: 10/21/2013

• Clear your desks for WWW #37

• Pick up a marker

• Period 4: Turn in your paper revisions (with your original drafts)

Homework:

• Read “The Devil and Tom Walker”– Make sure you can answer the reading

comprehension questions

• Topics for discussion:– Role of the setting, specifically the forest– Examples/purpose of satire

DNP: 10/22/2013

• Notes out ready to go.

America after the 18th century…

• Optimistic

• Democracy empowers the individual

• Clash of ideals and reality– Writers explore both extremes• Individualism• Darker sides of a fragmenting society

• Economically prosperous MATERIALISM

The Romantics’ Relationship with Nature

• Elevate nature as a sanctuary– Pure, not artificial

• Often illustrate the egotistical, futile and destructive aspects of their questing heroes

• Concerned with the loss of the frontier– “Manifest Destiny”

CONTRAST with the PURITANS who viewed nature as a fallen “wilderness” full of

“savage” Indians

1800

1820

SATIRE IN “THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER”

A Definition

• SATIRE – Literature that uses humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to exposes or mock the stupidity or recklessness of people or societies

Satire in the Tall Tale

• The main object of Washington Irving’s satire is greedy people, especially those whose wealth is ill-gotten or gained through the bad luck of others.

• Irving pokes fun at this type of person through his exaggerated characterization of Tom and his wife.

In your groups…

• Find textual examples where Irving satirizes greedy people.

• Compile these quotes in a google doc and share it with me (lparson@amdg.brebeuf.org)

• Save your doc as Group Names Irving Satire

Homework over Fall Break:

• Get into the text…– Option 1: Using the descriptions from the story, visually

recreate (through drawing, diorama, mobile, etc.) the setting, capturing the wild potential of the wilderness

– Option 2: Write a short (1-page, double-spaced typed) newspaper account of the Walkers’ mysterious disappearances that incorporates each of the underlined vocabulary words in the story

• Grammar review packet – verbs & adverbs