WLC+Joon

Reading Assignments: Divide your novel into four sections - by pages or chapters. **Post the schedule below on your wiki page with your pages/chapters due filled in for each class.**

Class 39 World Literature Circles - Meeting #1 Pages / Chapters Due:

Class 41 World Literature Circles - Meeting #2 Pages / Chapters Due:

Class 43 World Literature Circles - Meeting #3 Pages / Chapters Due:

Class 44 World Literature Circles - Meeting #4 Pages / Chapters Due:

Living in a cold place.
 * Preview** your book by answering the following questions on your wiki page:
 * What do you think this novel will be about based on the cover art? (complete sentence)
 * 1) It looks like nothing.
 * READ THE FIRST PAGE ALOUD IN YOUR GROUP
 * What is the POV (provide evidence)?
 * First person view; everything is in a first person view.
 * What conflict is introduced?
 * No conflict so far
 * What characters are introduced?
 * Orderlies, Shukhov
 * What do you learn about each of the characters (provide textual evidence)?
 * They live in a cold environment and Shukhov likes to go the latrine.
 * What is the setting (time, location)?
 * Night, somewhere cold
 * What do you think this book will be about? (complete sentences)

WLC 1


 * What was the most interesting idea or insight that was discussed in your group meeting today?**

I think our group's most interesting idea is the themes, how we clashed each other with the two themes of individualism over power and my theme of dehumanization how they have numbers as names, there one goal; to get their neccesity in life and how they do not really live, but just survive. That is an animal, humans want more from life, a chance to excel, and luxuries such as light, books, etc. His theme of individualism and numbers is weaker to actual power, even if wielded by a select group of people.


 * Research**


 * your topic of research: Location
 * a URL link to your reliable source: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/denisovich/context.html
 * state why you think the source is reliable:It is unbiased factual information on the location of the book. It also uses historical evidence like figures and events to solidify the reliability of the information.
 * write a one paragraph summary of your source (5-8 complete sentences)

It gives an overview of where and when A lexander isaevich solzhenitsyn was born and what he did and how he got education and how he is a model for the book. It talks about his early life and his school life. The important part is his involvment in the war and how after; during the great Purge, Stalin put him in a gulag with a personal letter. Also, it tells of him writing this book and other books such as __Full Circle__ about the time in Russia. The most accurate representation of the location would be a Russian gulag.


 * be prepared to share with your group and the class

-Pattern 10: The kitchen was run by two people- the cook and a sanitary inspector. pg 57

They describe more ways to live in the gulag such as the package system and bribing the authorities to get something or for something to be done. Unfairness and dehumanization are shown in a deeper way and they show a day in the life of Shukov and such how they need to gang together to stay alive and the brittle system of survival in the gulag camps.

WLC 3

We talked about themes; such as the harshness of a situation can make anyone emotionless and selfish such as Shukov wants some tobbacco or some sort of luxury and he never really tries to be nice, and etc. also, he doesn't share. I believe that another theme which is important is power over numbers and which resorts to the prisoners doing whatever possible to do something to help themselves while going against the mainstream.

--- WLC 4

We thought about power over numbers and we think Metamorphasis and this book has a large connection. When the sister gets the power, he is repected, and etc. while the other family members sort of give her a berth and a little reserve. And in this book the admins with the food and power have power over thousands while the actual admins are probably only in about 20-50 people that have control over the thousands.