Unit one

ELAALRL3 The student deepens understanding of literary works by relating them to their contemporary context or historical background, as well as to works from other time periods.


We should be able to read a piece of literature and relate it to ourselves in the present time, to other facts or ideas we know about the time period which the piece was written, and to relate it to other pieces of literature that reside in different time periods.

I believe we should master this standard because if we are not able to relate pieces of literature to ourselves we will feel no connection to it. It would also be very boring to us to read it. If we cannot relate it to other pieces of literature then the last standard is pointless because how u relate to other pieces is to use the evidence found throughout and what is similar.


RESEARCH

http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/ok3.html


I really like this example because it shows that people have always played pranks on other people but it also teaches a lesson that if you were to play a prank on the wrong person they might stop u from doing something you love to do. This story was about a rabbit playing a joke on two snakes in a river that have never met each other and losing his privledge to drink from that particular riverbed that he liked so much.


Differences

The Native Americans used animals to show an unnatural being. They could all talk and change forms, in my opinion they believed that these particualar animals were brought down to teach people lessons on how to behave properly and teach them other valuable lessons. Thats how they came up with all these stories that have the morals in them. Where as in the sermon, the person said that "god is only holding you over the pit of hell for his own amusement." He was saying that you either know how to act already or its going to end badly. Hence why he will only save those he wishes.


The Rationalists

The Puritans believed that everything that needs to be explained has been explained in the scriptures and other than that we shouldn't know what else is going on or how something worked. The rationalists believed that everything worked in a certain way and that it was up to the people to find out how and why everything works. A little bit from both of these cultures are still around some people believe that what the scriptures say are what goes and will not believe what science says on certain ideas like evolution. But of course we still have scientists trying to figure out alot of stuff concerning the entire universe but we have already at this point found out all the stuff the earliest scientists were trying to explain or we at least have and idea.


Franklin's Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin believed that people should find their own way to moral perfection and not to follow what the bible says about reaching moral perfection. Benjamin Franklin created his own virtues to reach this based on what he believed are his faults. He believed that you could only know what virtues you should follow on a self evaluation, not someone else telling you what you need to do to improve your own life. Such as, the bible saying that you need to follow the commandments.


My own Virtues

1. if something does not have to be said the do not say it.
2. respect your elders
3. Respect every person as an equal
4. you should not harm your own body.
5. Don"t let your mind go to waste.
6. One shouldn't waste just for the sake of wasting.
7. Respect others beliefs, even if you feel they are incorrect

as an overview some of these I need to work on myself but also i believe that these are some of the most important to treating others right and other people may have alot more that they have to work on.