4/14/16 Thursday (CST Schedule) Agenda

Go over Lit Terms from HW.

Add the term: Modernism to the list and then collect lit terms.

Modernism Discussion

The term modernism refers to the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War One period. The ordered, stable and inherently meaningful world view of the nineteenth century could not, wrote T.S. Eliot, accord with "the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." Modernism thus marks a distinctive break with Victorian bourgeois morality; rejecting nineteenth-century optimism, they presented a profoundly pessimistic picture of a culture in disarray. This despair often results in an apparent apathy and moral relativism.

SF Modernism Gallery

Nude Descending Staircase

Study the Nude Descending Staircase and discuss with your elbow partner why this piece should or should not be considered a Modernist piece of art. Discuss what you think the painting means?  What is the message/or ideas that the artist is trying to convey?

Provide three examples that prove that this piece of art should be considered modernist art or provide three examples that prove why it should not be considered modernist art. Provide a one sentence description about what the painting means to you.

Title your paper Nude Descending Staircase and be prepared to turn in at the end of the period.

HW=
1. Read e.e. cummings poem "anyone lived in a pretty how town" 
e.e. cummings reads the poem
Text for " anyone lived in a pretty how town"
2. Deconstruct the poem as we did in class for Prufrock and write a one paragraph description about what you think e.e. cummings was trying to say in his poem.  What does it mean in your opinion.  What do you think the poem is mainly about?  What is the message?
3. Study Unit 10 vocabulary for quiz tomorrow.
4. Read your LC book and remember that LC Analysis paper is due on Thursday 4/28/16.