Hey guys!
What I want you to start with today is the reading and summarizing of "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
After you're read and summarized the story, go ahead and complete the "golden quote" activity.
Then, complete the features of Realism activity.
Finally, if you have time left, go through the "golden quote" comments and comment in response to a few of your classmates' quotes and descriptions.
We will be in the computer lab again on Monday when I am back, so if you have a few minor things to finish up with this activity, you'll be okay.
See you on Monday! Don't forget to email me if you have any problems!
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ReplyDeletehinkers like Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud are becoming important and influential. What views are they espousing? Darwin says it's natural selection, not a divine blueprint of some sort, that determines which organisms live and die in the world -- it's mere "survival of the fittest." Marx says the masses are at the mercy of a capitalist economy, which more often than not brutally exploits them. And Freud says we're all at the mercy of dark internal drives and desires we can scarcely hope to control. All these guys believe our fates are determined, or shaped, by the types of big forces we were thinking about in the "naturalism" section above. And writers of the time are listening.
ReplyDeleteNot only is the U.S. population growing at a staggering rate at the end of the 19th century, but millions of people are settling into densely crowded urban areas (New York and Chicago especially are booming) where they seem to be living and working more and more like insects, basically. In these places, it becomes apparent (some thinkers and artists feel) that there's not a whole lot of difference between humans, who we like to think are individualistic and have free will, and animals, who of course live in flocks, herds, and schools and have to run on instinct.
Capitalism is running rampant and unchecked in the United States. The late 19th century is the age of the "robber barons," or fantastically wealthy industrialists (e.g. Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan) whose personal fortunes are skyrocketing as ever-growing throngs of workers (many of them immigrants) put in hundred-hour weeks for pennies in urban "sweatshops." That so many people have to suffer miserably while a lucky few live in opulent luxury is more evidence to naturalists that the vast majority of people are pawns to gargantuan forces (money, in this case) that toss us around as they please.
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