Humanities 9th (Period 5) Assignments
- Instructor
- Madison Howard/Kramer
- Terms
- Fall 2018
- Spring 2019
- Department
- Humanities
- Description
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9th grade Humanities is a course that introduces the ideas of growth, change, and maturation in the English and Language Arts setting. Students will be rigorously studying classic and contemporary literature spanning all genres, participating in discussion and finding meaning in the words they read, both on a personal and global level. Reading is including but not limited to: short stories, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, the novel, and Shakespeare. Students will be expected to master language and reading objectives for the Arizona AZ Merit standardized test. In particular, students will demonstrate an understanding of language terms (capitalization, punctuation, grammar, usage, and spelling) in the writing they complete for this class. Students will write in a variety of modes, such as descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive, for different purposes and audiences. In addition, it is expected that students are aware of current events in the news and use an academic vocabulary while in the classroom and in all assignments. Students will also be expected to pursue their public speaking and presentation skills.
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The whole center of Manhattan was a fabulous splay of electric lights. Wartime restraints had been lifted. Nobody had ever heard of an oil shortage. The office towers of mid-Manhattan habitually left all their lights on when the day’s business was over— cliffs, ridges, humps, mountains of light, which masked the night sky altogether when the weather was clear, and whose glowing reflections hung like a canopy on the air when clouds were low. In 1945, that year of ruin, it was perhaps the most astonishing spectacle in the world. It was a fantastic declaration and wealth and waste… The unimaginably expensive apartments of Fifth Avenue, Park Avenue or Sutton Place were complacently pointed out by dwellers in walk-ups, and the most admired statistic about almost anything concerned the cost of it. Everywhere in midtown was the patina of unembarrassed wealth— in the smoke of Cuban cigars, in the hauteur of uniformed doormen, in the behemoth Cadillacs purring by, in the scaled canopies which like wedding fitments, or arrangements for state occasions, crossed the sidewalk from the doors of any establishment aspiring to class.
Jan Morris
At this point, another apparent contradiction raises its head— namely why was The Catcher in the Rye, a novel fairly dripping with money and snobbery, so popular with readers who were attending colleges and universities on the GI Bill? These returning veterans were hardly the products of elitist prep schools such as Holden’s Pencey, nor were they likely to think of “home” as a swank Manhattan apartment. But, of course, Holden Caulfield is meant to be a sharp critic of such “phony” values, and his desperate search for a more authentic, more spiritual alternative linked him with other postwar rebels— despite his leather suitcase and fattened wallet.
Sanford Pinsker