Blogger #5 - Ivan Chen - Period 8 - 10/4/21

Aim:How does Kurt Vonnugut Jr.s’ background and choice of literary

devices provide greater insight and clarity to his work, “Harrison Bergeron”?

Do Now:Now that you’ve been introduced to Harrison Bergeron,with your teams create a possible alternative ending to the story.

Answer: Our group came to the conclusion that an alternative ending to the “Harrison Bergeron” is that he gets detained by the government and forgets about him.Other groups say that he gets shot and dies and another says Harrison starts a revolution against the government.

Literary Focus:

Theme: A central message, concern, or insight into life expressed through a literary work.

-Expressed in one or two sentences 

-Stated directly or indirectly

Dialect:is a spoken language used by a large group of people.

-Not specialize language but the way language is spoken

Conflict: A struggle between opposing forces

Internal Conflict: A struggle that takes place in a character’s mind

External Conflict: A struggle between a character and an outside force

External Conflict Examples:

Character Vs Character

Character Vs Nature

Character Vs Society 

Team Challenge:

Is it Internal or External

1. The Ruby Slippers - The Wizard of Oz Movie CLIP (1939) 

-External Conflict between Dorothy and the Witch

2. The Day After Tomorrow Movie Clip New York Storm Surge

-External Conflict between the Man and the Tsunami 

3. Alice In Wonderland Movie Clip

-Internal Conflict between Alice and her height 

4. A League of Their Own-There's No Crying in Baseball(1992) 

-External Conflict the Coach and everyone else 

Reflection

What did I learn?

In today’s lesson I learned about themes and dialects and most importantly conflict and the 2 types of conflicts.Which are internal conflicts and external conflicts.Internal conflicts are conflicts that happen to oneself such as dealing with mental illness.And external conflicts are conflicts that happen between you and an outside force, such as arguing with another person.

Why did I learn it?

Learning about Conflicts and its different types of it,can help us better understand a story and its characters that face the conflicts.And how they face each different type of conflict we can  learn more about the character and the world that pits the character into that conflict.

How will I use what I learned?

By learning how to identify the conflicts of a story,I can use what I learn to identify the conflicts faced by the different characters in “Harrison Bergeron” and learn more about the world and the characters.And after “Harrison Bergeron” I will identify the type of conflicts in subsequent readings we will do and other books that I read for myself.