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What did you find about the roles, expectations, portrayals, economic status, and/or literary representations of women in the Victorian Age?
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HOMEWORK What do we need to know about the conditions of life and labor, public health, race, class, and gender issues, education, etc., that will more than likely be reflected in the literature of this period. http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html
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Gender and the Victorian Era Female power Female powerlessness Objects of desire The Ideal woman
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What did you learn about Lewis Carroll?
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FeministFormalistPsycho- analytical Reader response 1234 5678 9101112
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Due Wednesday!!! Presentation on your chapters of Alice in Wonderland. WE WILL NOT PRESENT IN CLASS!!
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Chapter 8: The Queens Croquet-Ground By Raymond Miles Cook Jr. And Ryan Alan Shockley III
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Prior Knowledge Do you have any prior knowledge of the game croquet.
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Orient the Student Imagine living in the Victorian Age where order and rank is placed among everything else. Imagine playing a croquet game with a deck of cards.
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Rose Garden Alice enters a garden to see three gardeners painting white roses red. They were painting the queen wanted a red rose tree. The king and queen arrive at the garden with all of her soldiers.
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Queens Orders The queen demands to know the identity of Alice so she follows the order and introduces herself. Queen demands to know the identity of the 3 gardeners. The queen orders them to be beheaded for painting the roses but Alice secretly hides them in a large flower pot.
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The Croquet Game The queen forgets about the gardeners and invites Alice to play croquet. The balls were live hedgehogs, the mallets were live flamingos, and the hoops were the card people. People are playing out of turn and this makes the queen furious.
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Cheshire Cat The head of the Cheshire cat appearance which relieves Alice, because it is the only animal who treats her respectfully. The cat asks Alice about the queen and Alice says that she dislikes the queen. The king asks Alice who she is talking to. The cat and the king don’t get along.
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Execution The king orders for the cat to be beheaded. The executioner says that the cat can’t be beheaded because he only has a head and not a body. Alice orders for the Duchess to be brought forth. By the time the Duchess is brought forth, the cheshire cat has vanished.
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Victorian Elements Many references to nature with roses being painted and the croquet game being outside Hedgehogs and Flamingos are used to represent the common person being toyed and ordered around by the king and queen The Queen is very harsh and evil and this represents the reign of Queen Victoria
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Victorian Elements Supernatural Elements- deck of cards representing the people of the croquet game Many of the sentences were long, run-on sentences that were dragged on to gain a sense of
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Literary Connections Le Morte de Arthur-Nobility and the importance of the king and queen are similar Animal Farm- talking animals, and the animals represent government officials in real-life
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Analysis Alice soon realizes that although the people of the court are only a pack of cards that their nature does not make them any less dangerous The Court of Cards, like people in real life, rely on rank and costume for their status The theme of games, and learning their rules, is a central in this chapter
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Quiz 1. What animal represents the balls in the croquet game? 2. What was the name of the animal that treated Alice with courtesy. 3. What color were the gardeners painting the roses? 4. What represented the people of the Court?
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HOMEWORK “Jabberwocky” What the HECK? Find the poem, by Lewis Carroll, and provide a written summary of the poem
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Objectives Intertexuality syntactic context Morphology -
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Define the nonsensical words Brilig Toves Gyre Gimble Wabe. Etc., etc. etc…… Many of the words are similar to words we already know or they are onomatopoetic. Some you can figure out from the surrounding words (syntactic context)
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What are you using? mor ⋅ phol ⋅ o ⋅ gy a.the patterns of word formation in a particular language, including inflection, derivation, and composition. b.the study and description of such patterns. c. the study of the behavior and combination of morphemes.
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Doesn’t this story sound familiar? Familiar story pattern: Young man sets out on a quest to confront a monster
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Create a prose version Setting Characters Motivations Descriptive details Orient the reader!!!!
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