Ms. Gokturk
Trends in Lit
Pamela Zoline’s
“The Heat death of the Universe” Show & Tell Pre-Reading Research Activity
Use our online databases through the Portnet
site [library à
reference à
Worldbook
Encyclopedia or try PWPL Port Washington Public Library sites and seek
encyclopedias like Britannica Online.
Use the Internet only if databases do not help. Be careful
that you are using a legitimate site. CROSS REFERENCE when using the Internet:
don’t just assume the first answer is correct.
Visit multiple sites and compare and then synthesize!
Explain using your OWN words. Wherever possible, please print an image to
illustrate the term. Next class we will share your findings. Synthesize
is the key word!
Terms/Words/Names
to Define
- King
Solomon’s Judgment [see two mothers’ story]
- Boyle’s
Law [physics, simplified]
- J.S.
Bach [type of musical style, form, brief bio]
- Fugue
[define the different kinds of fugues]
- Definition
of cognitive estrangement.
- Transparent
eye; Emerson’s “Self Reliance” reference – what does the eyeball mean?
[Find a sketch and analyze]
- Entropy
[explain in human language!]
- Metastasis
- Yin
and Yang Signs [get a picture; print it large enough to show the class;
what does it represent?]
- Saint
Veronica [see Shroud; get photo; what is history?]
- Baba
(Wooden Russian Dolls) [get a picture; print it large enough to show the
class) What are they?
- Definitions
of Reproduction
- Definition
of generic
- Manna
- Dada
(Dadaism)
- Marcel
Duchamp (related to Dada)
- “elle a chaud
au cul” LHOOQ (related to Dada) [get a picture;
print it large enough to show the class; why is it significant?]
- Picabia [Related to Dada]
- Definition
of avant garde
- Salvador
Dali’s painting “Persistence of Memory” [get a picture; print it large
enough to show the class] What is represented?
What does it mean?
- Tantalus
[know story of his crime and punishment; find a depiction of it in art and
print graphic]
- Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa [get a
picture; print it large enough to show the class; for what is it famous?]
- Duchamp’s
Mona Lisa (Dada) [get a picture; print it large
enough to show the class; why is this significant?]
- Definition
of Pop Art. Find visual examples.
- Gibbs’
Universe [simplify as best you can!]
- “Fire
and Ice” by Robert Frost [summarize/explain]
- Turtle
Symbolism [hint: look for meaning in look in mythologies around the world.
What does it mean?]
- Cosmic
Egg [this appears in several creation myths; get a picture; print it large
enough to show the class]
- What
is Mrs. Beeton’s
Book of Household Management and how would you describe it? Time
period?
- First
Wave Feminism
- Second
Wave Feminism
- Third
Wave Feminism
- Overview/importance
of Betty Friedan’s 1963 The Feminine Mystique
- Description
of Sue Kaufmann’s 1967 The Diary of a Mad Housewife
- Metaphysical
Conceit
- The
Absurd
- Existentialism