Unit 2: The Individual versus Society 1.

The Glass Castle - Mom and Dad identify best with which Transcendental category? a. Self-Reliance - Independence b. Nonconformity - Individual c. Nature Interconnected d. Confidence - Instinct 2. What does the Glass Castle represent? Include 2 literal and 1 figurative explanation. ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fill out this chart as it applies to your evaluation of the characters motivations in The Glass Castle. Action/Behavior by Character My Evaluation of Characters Motivation 3. Jeneatte is offended by the woman using the words poor family.

4. Dad unsuccessfully tries to quit drinking.

5. Mom is excited about the lack of artists in Welch, West Virginia.

6. Brian becomes a police officer.

7. What is the problem that arises when Mom gets a job teaching school? a. b. c. d. She has to teach her daughters class. She is not familiar with the subject matter to be taught. She has trouble budgeting her money. She does not get paid a fair salary.

8. Why do Jenneatte and Dad have such a close relationship? a. b. c. d. She didnt have another option. He calls her Mountain Goat. She thinks he can do no wrong. He isnt sure the other children are his.

9. Why does the family leave Battle Mountain? a. Dad gets a job offer in Phoenix. b. The family needs to live with and take care of Grandma. c. They get evicted from their house. d. The children are involved in a shoot out. 10. Erma doesnt permit this in her house: a. Laughter b. Alcohol c. Sweets d. Pets

11. Use this graphic organizer to gather, restate, and summarize the poets ideas in O Captain! My Captain! Beginning Middle End

Summary

12. Briefly explain the ship, prize, journey, and Captain that the speaker describes in O Captain! My Captain! ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________

DIRECTIONS: First, fill in the correct I word associated with each principle. Next, read these passages from Emersons essay Self-Reliance. Then, on the line provided, write the letter of the principle of Transcendentalism (from the list) that each passage best illustrates. Transcendentalism Principles A. Self-Reliance - _____________________________________ B. Nonconformity - ___________________________________ C. Free Thought - ____________________________________ D. Confidence - ______________________________________ E. Importance of Nature - ______________________________ Emersons Statements ____ 13. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. ____ 14. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. _____15. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. _____16. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and not but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. _____17. but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. 18. Emerson states in Self-Reliance that society values conformity above all else. Do you accept his statement, or do you find it inaccurate? Explain your answer with evidence. __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ 19. What does Thoreau mean when he writes, . . . a man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone? Provide a detail from the text that gives you a clue about where Thoreau is heading with this statement. a. Rich men can hire others to do their work. b. A man is rich by virtue of his appreciation of things in their natural state. c. Thoreau was so wealthy he could afford to take his time deciding what needed to be redecorated. d. Thoreau was perceived as rich by all of his friends. 20. As part of the construction of his argument for simplicity, Thoreau uses repetition to state both what people should do, and what they should avoid. Fill in the chart below listing three examples of each, using the text to assist you with details.

Thoreaus Argument: Simplicity

What people should do

What people should not do

21. In Patrick Henrys Speech to the Virginia Convention he relies heavily on this rhetorical appeal to make his point: a. Ethos b. Pathos c. Logos d. Metaphor 22. Read the following passage from The Gettysburg Address and identify the primary rhetorical device(s) used by Lincoln. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate--we cannot consecrate--we cannot hallow--this ground. a. b. c. d. Rhetorical question Parallelism Alliteration Antimetabole

23. Read the following passage from The Gettysburg Address and identify the primary rhetorical device(s) used by Lincoln. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here a. b. c. d. Rhetorical question Parallelism Alliteration Antimetabole

24. What is the purpose of concluding Patrick Henrys Speech in the Virginia Convention with the line, Give me liberty or give me death!? Explain how this supports transcendental thought. __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________

25. Whitman is known as the Father of what kind of poetry? How does this type of poetry supports transcendental thought? __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ 26. What does Henry try to express with the following line from Speech in the Virginia Convention? But different men often see the same subject in different lights a. b. c. d. Some people didnt have electricity at this time You tend to see what you are looking for Men can have different opinions on the same subject due to experiences None of the above

27. To whom does Thomas Jefferson refer in the following quotation: A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people, and what is the strong negative label he uses to define this person? The person referred to in this quotation: ________________________________________ The label used to define this person: ___________________________________________ 28. One of the most famous quotations from The Declaration of Independence contains the message that all people are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Which word most closely matches the meaning of unalienable? a. unable to be taken away; undeniable b. unable to be given to more than a few people at a time c. unable to be supported by law d. unable to be defined

DIRECTIONS: Underline the loaded diction in these sentences. Then, on the lines provided, briefly explain the emotional response each word evokes. 29. He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________

30. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered. __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________

Extra Credit Essay: Consider each piece of literature we have read in the unit Individual versus Society. In your opinion, which is more important? Must a person have strong individuality first in order to be a good member of society OR should a person give up their individuality in order to be a good member of society? Use at least 2 pieces of literature from this unit to support your opinion in a complete, well-planned essay. (10 points)

Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion. Our life is like a German Confederacy, made up of petty states, with its boundary forever fluctuating, so that even a German cannot tell you how it is bounded at any moment. The nation itself, with all its so- called internal improvements, which, by the way are all external and superficial, is just such an unwieldy and overgrown establishment, cluttered with furniture and tripped up by its own traps, ruined by luxury and heedless expense, by want of calculation and a worthy aim, as the million households in the land; and the only cure for it, as for them, is in a rigid economy, a stern and more than Spartan simplicity of life and elevation of purpose. It lives too fast. Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour, without a doubt, whether they do or not; but whether we should live like baboons or like men, is a little uncertain. If we do not get out sleepers, and forge rails, and devote days and nights to the work, but go to tinkering upon our lives to improve them, who will build railroads? And if railroads are not built, how shall we get to heaven in season? But if we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads? We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us. Did you ever think what those sleepers are that underlie the railroad? Each one is a man, an Irishman, or a Yankee man. The rails are laid on them, and they are covered with sand, and the cars run smoothly over them. They are sound sleepers, I assure you. And every few years a new lot is laid down and run over; so that, if some have the pleasure of riding on a rail, others have the misfortune to be ridden upon. And when they run over a man that is walking in his sleep, a supernumerary sleeper in the wrong position, and wake him up, they suddenly stop the cars, and make a hue and cry about it, as if this were an exception. I am glad to know that it takes a gang of men for every five miles to keep the sleepers down and level in their beds as it is, for this is a sign that they may sometime get up again.