Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Analyze and Synthesize

Your Task

(A) Read Nathaniel Hathorne's short story "Young Goodman Brown."
http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/ygb.html

(B) Read Margaret Atwood's poem "Half-Hanged Mary."
http://www.emerycsd.org/webpages/dcarter/salem.cfm?subpage=1143672

(C) Analyze the rhetorical triangle in the following three pieces of artwork:
          * Leonardo DaVinci's  The Last Supper"
http://vanbreda.org/gallery/index.php/Origins-of-Accounting/The-Last-Supper-by-Da-Vinci  
 
          * Gustave Dore's painting of Canto 1 in his collection "Dante's Inferno"
http://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-dore/the-inferno-canto-32-2#supersized-artistPaintings-201983  
     
          * Norman Rockwood's "Freedom from Fear"
http://www.nrm.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Freedom-from-Fear_web.jpg

(D) Watch one PBS documentary on the the puritans or Joseph McCarthy or the Salem "Witch" Trials.
www.pbs.org

In well-organized paragraphs, comment (Blog) about the short story, the poem, all three pieces of art, AND the documentary you chose. Remember to include your observations and your analysis of the links and determine the central idea of the synthesized sources.