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Source:
“Dying, Death, and Body Disposal.” Encyclopedia of American Environmental History , Facts on File, 2010, online.infobase.com/hrc/search/details/208303?q=death. Accessed 12 Oct. 2016.
URL:
http://online.infobase.com/hrc/search/details/208303?q=death
Quote:
“Religion was an important element in several early American colonies. Christian services involved a religious service and burial. In some areas, churches denied Christian burials to “sinners” (unmarried pregnant women, adulterers, criminals, and non-Christians), disposing of their bodies in pits or unsanctified areas. Christians were often buried in yards adjacent to churches and set aside for burial. European American colonial grave markers were often flat with death’s head images referred to as memento mori that served as reminders that death was imminent.”
Paraphrase:
-Religion was a big part of Colonial America
-All Christians were buried
-In parts of Colonial America churches didn’t allow people who were sinners to g a graveyard
-Sinners included unmarried pregnant women, adulterers, criminals, and non Christians
-For those sinners, Christians would bury them in pits or unholy
-Christians were buried in graveyards next to the church
-On graves Christians put skulls and different symbols to remind the community death happens to everyone and there is no stopping it
My Ideas:
Christian burial in Colonial America is very similar to modern burial around the world. I can infer this is because Christianity is one of the dominate religion today. In the colonial society it was better to be a believer. You were looked down upon and punished for being a sinner. As well as shame, you also get a lot of privileges taken away from you. For example in the article it says, “In some areas, churches denied Christian burials” ( to sinners). Funerals are a very big deal and have been throughout all of time. Everywhere that you go in the world there is a special way of burying people. In fact most of the ceremonies involve God. So for a humans body to be cast aside in a pit it must mean that Christians had a zero tolerance level for atheism. I can infer that this is what kept the church in power. Not only did the church have money power and fame, they also have control of you in the afterlife. What point did the church lose its power? I find it fascinating that Christians were able to except death and face it head on. Maybe the reason why they put skulls on the graves was some kind of superstition?
History:
Created: 10/12/2016 07:16 PM

Name: Zach Humanities
7th Grade The Giver

Outline for GIVER LITERARY ESSAY

Themes: Control and Freedom ( Talk about Jonas when talking about freedom)
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Paragraph #1: Introductory Paragraph (GIT)

Grabber Statement (G): In a world where fear strikes through the souls of the citizens in the form of control, a young boy named Jonas searches for freedom. This is the the Giver by Lois Lowry.

Introduce Plot Summary (I): Jonas the main character is very thoughtful of his everyday life. He yearns for difference. On his 12 birthday he receives a job with great honor. This opens eyes,
the world he lives in is riddled with casualties.

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Thesis Statement (T): This society is a dystopia because the citizens are manipulated by the Elders and there is no room for freedom.
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Paragraph #2: Thematic Analysis

Topic Sentence (T): Control and freedom is something the community of the Giver struggles with.

Explanatory Sentence (E): In The book The Giver control is clouded by perfection. The Council of Elders uses the thought of perfection and or the thought of a “utopia’ for control. In this book freedom is imperfection.

Evidence (E): One example of that is this quote. “Of course our community can’t function smoothly if people don’t use precise language. You could ask, ‘Do you enjoy me?’ The answer is ‘Yes,’” his mother said. “Or,” his father suggested, “‘Do you take pride in my accomplishments?’ And the answer is wholeheartedly ‘Yes.’” “Do you understand why it’s inappropriate to use a word like ‘love’?” Mother asked. Jonas nodded. “Yes, thank you, I do,” he replied slowly. It was his first lie to his parents.” Page 106

Analysis (A): In this example of control, its emotion. Since emotion defines who you are, the elders created homogeneity. So now not only do the Elders control you, they also made you equal to everyone else. This makes it easier to take control of the community. All of the rules in the society were made around the thought of leadership. In a way the people of the giver are robots. They have no emotion, they don’t feel anything and they can’t even see color. The Elders made them this way so that they can program themselves into power.

Concluding/ Transition (C): The only way to have a perfect society is to have no freedom

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Paragraph #3: Thematic Analysis Continued

Topic Sentence (T): In the giver freedom is unable to coexist with the citizens.

Explanatory Sentence (E): The freedom to choose is what puts people in poverty. The choices that humans make in our world everyday that decisions their future. In The Giver’s society your fate is decided as soon as your our born.

Evidence (E): This shows most in The Giver on page 90. “‘They know nothing,’ The Giver said bitterly. Jonas was shocked. Since the first day in the Annex room, they had together disregarded the rules about rudeness, and Jonas felt comfortable with that now. But this was different, and far beyond rude. This was a terrible accusation. What if someone had heard?”

Analysis (A). In a world where everything is carefully thought out, emotions don’t fit in. Emotions are unpredictable. To keep these emotions in check The Elders have strategic rules in place. Rules in The Giver oppress freedom. The rule about rudeness gave Jonas a taste of freedom. As soon as he had a sliver of freedom he set out on a journey for more because he knew that he would not find any staying where he was.

Concluding/ Transition (C): Perfection is a great thing, but everything comes with a cost.

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Paragraph #4: Concluding Paragraph (ROC)

Reflection of Thesis (R): Choice does not have a place in a utopia and when there’s no choice that creates control by a dictatorship.

Overview of Main Points (O):

Concluding Sentence– Comparisons and Connections (C): The Giver makes forces readers to reflect on what is means to be a perfect world. Everybody on earth dreams to be rich and successful. Although some think the distribution of power and difference is unfair. Those people want equality. The Giver made equality but took it to a whole new level. To be equal is not being the same. The giver make you realise having the same privilege is not the same as being the same.

In a world where fear strikes through the souls of the citizens in the form of control, a young boy named Jonas searches for freedom. This world is The Giver by Lois Lowry. Jonas the main character is very thoughtful in his everyday life. He yearns for difference in a world of homogeneity. On his 12th birthday he receives a job with great honor behind it. This opens eyes, the world he lives in is riddled with casualties. This society is a dystopia because the citizens are manipulated by The Elders and there is no room for freedom.
Control and freedom is something the community of The Giver struggles with. In The book The Giver control is clouded by perfection. The Council of Elders uses the thought of perfection and or the thought of a “utopia” for control. In this book freedom is imperfection. One example of that is in this quote. “Of course our community can’t function smoothly if people don’t use precise language. You could ask, ‘Do you enjoy me?’ The answer is ‘Yes,’” his mother said. “Or,” his father suggested, “‘Do you take pride in my accomplishments?’ And the answer is wholeheartedly ‘Yes.’” “Do you understand why it’s inappropriate to use a word like ‘love’?” Mother asked. Jonas nodded. “Yes, thank you, I do,” he replied slowly. It was his first lie to his parents.” (The Giver, 106). In this example of control, The Elders use emotion to manipulate people. Since emotion defines who you are, The Elders created homogeneity. So now not only do the Elders control the community, they also made you equal to everyone else. This makes it easier to take control of the community. All of the rules in the society were made around the thought of leadership. In a way the people of The Giver are robots. They have no emotion, they don’t feel anything and they can’t even see color. The Elders made them this way so that they can program themselves into power. The only way to have a perfect society is to have no freedom.
In The Giver freedom is unable to coexist with the citizens. The freedom to choose is what puts people in poverty. The choices that humans make in our world everyday are the decisions that decide their future. In The Giver’s society your fate is decided as soon as your our born. This shows most in The Giver on page 90. “‘They know nothing,’ The Giver said bitterly. Jonas was shocked. Since the first day in the Annex room, they had together disregarded the rules about rudeness, and Jonas felt comfortable with that now. But this was different, and far beyond rude. This was a terrible accusation. What if someone had heard?” In a world where everything is carefully thought out, emotions don’t fit in. Emotions are unpredictable. To keep these emotions in check The Elders have strategic rules in place. Rules in The Giver oppress freedom. The rule about rudeness gave Jonas a taste of freedom. As soon as he had a sliver of freedom he set out on a journey for more because he knew that he would not find any staying where he was. Perfection is a great thing, but everything comes with a cost.
Choice does not have a place in a utopia and when there’s no choice that creates control by a dictatorship. The Giver forces readers to reflect on what is means to be a perfect world. Everybody on earth dreams to be rich and successful. Although some think the distribution of power and difference is unfair. Those people want equality. The Giver made equality but took it to a whole new level. To be equal is not being the same. The Giver make the reader realise having the same privileges is not the same as being the same.

Your overall goal with hatching is to convey movement. But at the same time depth. You can only go in one direction or else the flow is ruined. This is one of the four basic styles of value.

untitledI think our group worked well together but we could have split up the work more evenly. I think if we had completed this in a longer time it would have been better acted out and our accents would be better articulated. All and all I did the homework assignments. I think as a group we could have been more productive in editing before we handed it in to the teacher. If we had done this project again I would have given a longer time to do the assignment, I would assign different people different meals and I would give class time for practice specificle.

Over the summer I read a book called The Time Traveler, by H.G Wells. This book takes place in England in the 1890s, in the year AD 802,701, and more than 30 million years in the future. This book is about a man who builds a Time Machine and come back to tell his story to his peers. The Time Traveler is a very cunning and untrustworthy person. I think one of the main themes of the book is Time. Its obvious that the book is about time. But not in the way you would think. In this book it kept on throwing around big ideas about time and the way we look at versus the way it actually is.

My favorite project this year was the self portraits. I liked them because I was able to express and experiment with the different art styles we worked with in my whole art career. Also there were five different portraits so we were able to do five different projects.

I learned all of this stuff about the human body and yet it has all been happening inside of me this whole time. I also learned that it is harder to teach a class then it is to receive it. 21 kids can try to present all of the human body but we will only talk about half of it. We talked about the bigger stuff in the body, there are tons of other cells in your body.

Cast:

Armant: Lead Anchor (Does not have to memorise, it’s ok)

Gus: James Adams (Does not have to memorise, it’s ok)

Will: Dadi (Should memorise, thanks)

Konrad: Weather man (Does not have to memorise, it’s ok)

 

Intro: Theme song

Armant: Hello this is Zakariyya Darzi here at Global News. Business has been off the charts. Here in Pakistan we have seen the finest camels on the face of the earth. Oh, James Adams is down at the Sibi fair. Let’s go take a look.

 

Gus: Hello, I would just like to say that out here we have the finest camels. But by far there is one camel salesmen who trumps them all.

 

(Cut into interview)

 

Gus: Hello Mr. Abassi What is it that you do exactly to make your camels so great.

Will: Well you know it’s hard to train camels. But I don’t think of my camels as camels I think of my camels as family.

 

Gus: I have heard that you have been known to SLAP your daughter. Is this true

 

Will: Yes it is true. The reason I slap my daughter is because you need to teach discipline in some way. And I feel this way works just fine.

 

Gus: I was wondering why did you chose to become a camel farmer when you could have chosen any job?

 

Will: Well my father was part of the Nawabs Camel Corps and so I guess I always had a connection with camels and formed an unbreakable bond.

 

Gus: Thanks. Now back to Konrad

 

(cut back to Konrad)

 

Konrad: Hello, my name is Talib Omar and there is a humongous storm about to hit the Cholistan Desert. We advise staying in your huts and houses and not going outside at all costs. This is also is affecting businesses all around the desert. This is going to be a tough year for the camel business. All of the camels at the sibi fair or traveling back from the sibi fair will be decimated. Back to you Zakariyya Darzi.

 

(Cut to Armant)

 

Armant: Well that’s all for today folks thanks for listening and come back tomorrow for another report on this sand storm.

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