WLC+Sally

Class 39 World Literature Circles - Meeting #1 Pages / Chapters Due: 1~50 Since July's People is a difficult book, we discussed about what happened in each chapter to clarify what was happening. We talked about the ironic system of the whites running away from the whites, and talked about how racism and unjust systems could lead to chaos and uprisings from discriminated ones. We Also talked about the odd writing style of the author, how it starts off in present day, and then goes back in time and how the other uses dash instead of quotations in dialogues.

Class 41 World Literature Circles - Meeting #2 CHANGED BOOK **THE TIME MACHINE Pages / Chapters Due: 1~44 pg. 30: Indeed, there was something in these pretty little people that inspire confidence- a graceful gentleness, a certain childlike ease.

This is pattern 10a, because it has a dash that sets off the appositive (echoed idea, or second naming) It has an independent clause before the dash. The appositive is not an independent clause.

REFLECTION: The most interesting topic we discussed today was "Why does the author try to hide the Time Traveler's identity?" This was a mystery and was very puzzling, because the author never states the real name, but uses the name "Time Traveler." When another character asks where he is, "Where's _ ? naming our host." (pg.15) the author literally uses "_" blank to name the protagonist. This makes this book a unique book where the author does not use the protagonist, the main character and most important figure's name. It is puzzling and leaves the reader thinking... Class 43 World Literature Circles - Meeting #3 Pages / Chapters Due: 44~84 -The interesting question that we talked about was if the underworld or the upperworld was evil. It is described in the book that the underworld creatures are carnivorous, scary creatures while the upperworld is always portrayed peaceful and happy. However, the underworld are being isolated from the rest of the world and have to stay in a dark area and have to eat rats and other disgusting animals to survive. It might be that the upperworld are discriminating the creatures who are different like in Things Fall Apart. The twins or people with the white disease are isolated and left to die. They are counted as white people and are hated, and disrespected. These people are not evil, but the tradition and the social conscious makes them evil. Weena even cries when the Time Traveler goes in the well to the area where the underworld people live. Therefore, no one can really finalize that the underworld are evil, because there is always a potential that the upperworld are evil. **

Class 44 World Literature Circles - Meeting #4 Pages / Chapters Due: 84~123 CONNECTION (Animal farm VS The Time Machine) -In both Animal farm and The Time Machine, there is class difference which causes an uprising by the oppressed. In animal farm, there is class difference between the people and the animals. The animals always work for the people, but all they get is being killed. Therefore, due to the little freedom they have, they create a rebellion. In the Battle of Cowshed, they are able to hurt the people and kick them out of the farm. Similarly in The Time Machine, there are class difference between the upperworld creatures and the underworld creatures. The upperworld creatures have a lot of food, and lives in a good environment, while the underworld creatures have to live without abundant food, and have to be isolated from the society. Therefore, the underworld starts an uprising by being cannibalistic and eats the upperworld creatures. This connects directly to the theme of how the when there is an oppressed and oppressor, the oppressed will mostly rebel to gain more rights. Also, H.G Wells criticizes capitalism and communicates to the reader that if capitalism continues in the future in the case of this book, it will cause class difference which will eventually lead to violence.

Preview** your book by answering the following questions on your wiki page: > 1. With your world lit. group, list the time period, location, and as many historical details and figures as you can identify from the first section of your book.
 * What do you think this novel will be about based on the cover art? (complete sentence)
 * warm story that happens out in the nature
 * READ THE FIRST PAGE ALOUD IN YOUR GROUP
 * What is the POV (provide evidence)?
 * 3rd POV "July bent at the doorway."
 * What conflict is introduced?
 * milk was given to everyone except me.
 * What characters are introduced?
 * July, and two other people in the hut.
 * What do you learn about each of the characters (provide textual evidence)?
 * July is their servant "July, their servant" pg.1
 * What is the setting (time, location)?
 * mud hut, in the day
 * What do you think this book will be about? (complete sentences)
 * I think it will be about July and his people will fight against their owners.
 * Victorian Era
 * -Queen Victoria
 * Great Britain
 * Reform Bill
 * shift in classes

TOPIC: Victorian Era URL: [] __ SUMMARY: Victorian Era was mainly in the reign of Queen Victoria where it prospered in literacy, art, social, religious, political movements. During the Victorian Era, social classes were reforming, and the middle classes were rising while the lower classes were slowly starting to complain, and wanted more change. They were complaining because the conditions were bad (such as child labor) and therefore, there were reform bills. In addition, this era was a period where scientific ideas flourished mainly thanks to Darwin’s voyage to find out about evolution. Technology, industries, medicine and physical science was improving. The fashion industry was changing, and so did novels (cultural department), and arts. Victorian era is a complex time period where people started changing, and understanding more aspects in life (modernization). RELIABILITY: This source is reliable because at the bottom, it states a reliable job of the author (history professor.) This site is full of interesting words, and all grammar and spellings are correct. The site is organized with a column of links on the site, has the author’s name, and the page title. The content is useful, and easy to read because it has a introduction, and all the paragraphs relate to the thesis and all body paragraphs has a topic sentence and the page ends with a good conclusion.