Dillard herself is guilty of such an act and she reveals her mistake when she says I missed my chance. The supposition is that the eagle had pounced on the weasel and the weasel swiveled and bit as instinct taught him, tooth to neck, and nearly won. Unlike the rest of the group, he was highly intelligent and thought logically through the problems they endured. ! If we were all to live like the weasel does, where their mind set is to be wild it will benefit us in the long run. In the novel, The Flamingo Rising, Larry Baker clearly shows that Louises identity is created more by the environment than by the individual. What is the focus of her observations? To add-on to that, the amount of writing and the opportunities, has helped her as well., Piggy was brutally honest and wasnt afraid to express his thoughts and ideas. In other words, he believes that being in a group surrounded by uniqueness is unsafe because we will not be able to think by ourselves and we as humans will follow the group and be a follower in life. To illustrate this she tells about the weasels natural instinct to grab animals by their throat and hang on until one of them loses the battle. (In-class journal entry) Choose one sentence from the essay and explore how the author develops her ideas regarding the topic both via the content of her essay and its composition. The supposition is that the eagle had pounced on the weasel and the weasel swiveled and bit as instinct taught him, tooth to neck, and nearly won. There is one anomaly to the sea otter's widespread recovery. Without dignity(Q11) What was the purpose of Dillard coming to Hollins Pond? (Q7) Dillard is careful to place these opposing descriptions (of the natural and man made) side-by-side. I should have gone for the throatI should have lunged and mute and uncomprehending. (Q14) Dillard urges her readers to stalk your calling by plug[ging] into your purposeyet she describes this process as yielding, not fighting. What message is she trying to convey with these words? and the juxtaposition of humans with "primal" animals within "The Damned Human Race." By taking characteristics generally considered to be superior aspects of humans, such as patriotism, religion and reason, and revealing . But we don't. Combining a positive characteristic and its antithesis in a single sentence He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself, and cuts his throat if his theology isnt straightallows Twain to reveal inconsistencies within mankinds spotless, The movie I choose was Dances with Wolves. (Q10) When she sees the weasel Dillard says, I've been in that weasel's brain for sixty seconds. What did she find there? This appears to create difficulties for the notion of what it is like to be a bat. In a forest, Dillard describes the encounter with the weasel when they lock eyes; she then explains what is inside of the weasels brain, his habits and traits. Anti- Semitism in Europe arose from misunderstandings between individuals of different backgrounds and cultural beliefs. Some books we loved and even reread many times, and others - well lets just say did not even finish. (Q16) Dillard describes things in antithetical terms, such as a remarkable piece of shallowness. How do phrases like this help advance her observations regarding what it is like to live like a weasel? At first she believes that like her, the weasel is attempting to strike a meaningful exchange of introspective thoughts. She brings up the theme of freedom and describes the way a weasel lives their everyday life with no regrets or fear. Staffords poem, Traveling through the dark similarly recalls that the driver knew the doe had a living fawn inside of her, yet still pushed the doe off the cliff, killing the unborn fawn. Anne Dillard uses diction and juxtaposition in both "Living like Weasels" and "Sojourner" to establishes her distaste towards the actions and cognition of the human race. The vector is the hull of the ship which has been alienated. Studying how it lives its life. But bat sonar, though clearly a form of perception, is not similar in its operation to any sense that we possess, and there is no reason to suppose that it is subjectively like anything we can experience or imagine. Nevertheless, both novels prove that while some characters had to turn off their humanity in a horrific world like The Hunger Games and The Road, the two main characters of each book demonstrated how a barbaric world could not take that virtue from them. (Q9) Describe what is meant by being stunned into stillness drawing on evidence from paragraph 10. Why is it significance? She then moves on to describe a pond where humans and animals coexist, using imagery such as turtle eggs in motorcycle tracks. 4. Reading Task: Rereading is deliberately built into the instructional unit. Sentence Syntax Task: On occasion students will encounter particularly difficult sentences to decode. 4 Twenty minutes from my house, through the woods by the quarry and across the highway, is Hollins Pond, a remarkable piece of shallowness, where I like to go at sunset and sit on a tree trunk. 10 Our look was as if two lovers, or deadly enemies, met unexpectedly on an overgrown path when each had been thinking of something else: a clearing blow to the gut. He hopes to prove how animals very quickly learned the most basic survival technique to cohabitate where the man did not. Using academic diction, Rifkin develops his main idea with evidence such as Caledonian crows being able to make tools to complete a task. The topic of instinct is one she brings up several times throughout the rest of the story; in fact, one significant point she conveys through her writing is the value of one's instinct. "he lives in his den for two days". Another example is when Janies husband Tea Cake passed away, she took some seeds with her that reminded her of Tea cake and planted them. Juxtaposition is used by Dillard in "Living like weasels tocompare constructed and natural world where she says thatnatural world in pure and dignified. " " 1-7:Describe the varied syntax and its effects in these lines. 2. (Q18) Paragraphs 12 and 13 contain several questions instead of statements. They both focus on the natural world and human living. One naturalist refused to kill a weasel who was socketed into his hand deeply as a rattlesnake. However, in the novel, The Flamingo Rising, Larry Baker introduces Louise, a different type of person that will do anything to be the center of attention. We need to start look for more meaning in things because it will give us more understanding of what the, With her words to the hard of hearing you shout, for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures, Flannery OConnor explains her literary style (OConnor). latches to their throats. The second essay called "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. In the introduction to Dillards short story, she discusses a few basic facts related to a weasels life and behavior. ! A close analysis of this passage will examine how Dillard moves from literal to figurative descriptions of the impact of seeing the weasel and being stunned into stillness. In this setting, known as Hollins Pond, Dillard unexpectedly locks eyes with a weasel, and in this intense moment feels a pull towards the mindlessness of animal instinct. I was stunned into stillness twisted backward on the tree trunk. The goal is to foster student confidence when encountering complex text and to reinforce the skills they have acquired regarding how to build and extend their understanding of a text. I tell you I've been in that weasel's brain for sixty seconds, and he was in mine. Make it violent? We think, debate, and calculate each and every move while weasels just simply act. If you and I looked at each other that way, our skulls would split and drop to our shoulders. Through her vivid and truly descriptive imagery, one may see emphasize and glorification to the way of life these little creatures live. These questions push students to see the connection between the natural and the man made. His face was fierce, small and pointed as a lizard's; he would have made a good arrowhead. We keep our skulls. Dillard uses a vivid description of the landscape to draw you into her adventure. Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow? On the other hand, On a Hill Far Away focuses more on the issue of conscious choice: To let choice impact you or ignore it. thin as a curve a muscled ribbon brown as fruitwood his face was fierce, small and pointed as a lizards he would have made a good arrowhead This analysis sets up a later question on similes and metaphors and helps to establish a tone of close reading for the day. I find it really interesting that even though Dillard expresses her desire to live like the weasel, she constantly over-analyze and reflect on everything she sees. She starts by introducing the weasel in a general description of his lifestyle of sleeping, stalking, and fighting for life. I should have gone for the throat. Butler focuses the story on the poor and the homeless by only giving characters with this background a voice in order to show the reader that societys views and stereotypes of these groups are flawed. This is yielding, not fighting. Students answer text-dependent questions regarding the first seven paragraphs, exploring the juxtaposition of the natural environment with the evidence of human presence. I would like to live as I should, as the weasel lives as he should. a 55 mph highway at one end. Find a juxtaposition. Lines 19-21:Identify Dillards use of alliteration and consonance and describe their effect on, 3.Lines 3249: What instances of juxtaposition are in these lines? " ! One memory, like the encounter, can last for a moment, but not a moment longer. Down is a good place to go, where the mind is single. The cruel but alluring diction is done to illustrate Dillards fascination with the weasels willingness to cease from existence because of their commitment to its choices and lifestyle. In the novel Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler paints a picture of a dystopia in the United States in which the current societal problems are overly exaggerated into the worst-case scenario. There's a 55 mph highway at one end of the pond, and a nesting pair of wood ducks at the other. Through Dillard's use of descriptive imagery, indulging her audience, radical comparisons of nature and civilization and anecdotal evidence, this concept is ultimately conveyed. Dillard's purpose is to show that we should go after our dreams no matter the cost, in order to accomplish the . This question harkens back to the journal entry students wrote and helps to emphasize the alien nature of a weasels existence. 4 (Oct., 1974), 436, 438-9) PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 1 % & - . Dillard also uses very detailed language throughout the essay in describing her surroundings and thoughts, however; this further undermines her argument and ethos as she is trying to convince the reader that she could simply become as simple and single minded as the weasel she has focused her argument around. ##ction And Juxtaposition In Living Like Weasels And Sojourner, idea in a particular way? Read the passage out loud to the class as students follow along in the text. However, living in a world much like the one described in both The Hunger Games and The Road novels, some may argue that turning off ones humanity is a necessity. In her essay Living Like Weasels, Annie Dillard explores the idea of following a single calling in life, and attaching ones self it this calling as the weasel on Ernest Thompson Setons eagle had. It is critical to cultivating independence and creating a culture of close reading that students initially grapple with rich texts like Dillards novel without the aid of prefatory material, extensive notes, or even teacher explanations. The essays seem similar on the surface but use different types of analogies and examples to relate the two topics. We never fully live our lives because we are too caught up with avoiding risks. Teachers might afford students the opportunity to rewrite their essay or revise their in-class journal entries after participating in classroom discussion, allowing them to refashion both their understanding of the text and their expression of that understanding. I agree with Dillards idea that we "might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical senses and the dignity of living without bias or motive" (Dillard 210). It returns her to her own sense of self and provides a space for reflection - It startles her very self. -Juxtaposition is used by Dillard in "Living like weasels to compare constructed and natural world where she says that the natural world is pure and dignified.Juxtaposition is a concept where two images or two effects are placed side to side of each other. 2. It is critical to cultivating independence and creating a culture of close reading that students initially grapple with rich texts like Dillards novel without the aid of prefatory material, extensive notes, or even teacher explanations. I'd never seen one wild before. Each character presented in the short story represents natural human traits that can prove to be negative when greed and curiosity are involved. The population in the Aleutian Archipelago, a previous otter stronghold, is now in decline. This movie was about Lieutenant John J. Dunbar and his experience in befriending the Indians. In paragraph 15, Dillard imagines going "out of your ever-loving mind and back to your careless senses." Teachers can use discussions to model and reinforce how to learn vocabulary from contextual clues, and students must be held accountable for engaging in this practice. Furthermore, the salaries and bonuses received by men are higher than those received by women, which reinforces the fact that not only the society, but also companies are. The characters in the stories and movies "The Sociology of Leopard Man," "Two Kinds," and Dead Poets Society agreed that they would not change themselves in order to blend in with other people. Pursuit of Calling In Living Like Weasels, Annie Dillard recalls an encounter with a weasel and connects the weasels tenacity to the human pursuit of ones calling. [Read intervening paragraphs.] Nowlan portrays the idea that adversity is part of our lives, and this adversity shapes us as individuals. It felled the forest, moved the fields, and drained the pond; the world dismantled and tumbled into that black hole of eyes. Then I cut down through the woods to the mossy fallen tree where I sit. Sometimes he lives in his den for two days without leaving. In this way, Dillard is pushing readers to consider these questions on their own - to ponder them and to come to some of their own conclusions - much like she wants her readers to do with their own lives. 3 I have been reading about weasels because I saw one last week. Evil also personifies the earth with these conations stating that the once kind earth turns evil. Day Two: Instructional Exemplar for Dillards Living Like Weasels Summary of Activities Teacher introduces the days passage with minimal commentary and students read it independently Teacher or skillful reader then reads the passage out loud to the class as students follow along in the text Teacher asks the class to discuss a set of text-dependent questions and to complete another journal entry Text Passage under DiscussionDirections for Teachers/Guiding Questions For Students8 Weasel! This gives students another encounter with the text, reinforces the use of textual evidence, and helps develop fluency. What is the focus of her observations? Human beings are creatures of caution and fear. (Homework) In your journal, write an entry describing how Dillard connects the constructed world with the world of nature in paragraphs 5 and 6 of her essay. Explain how the images. two barbed wire fences. In Richard Connells short story The Most Dangerous Game, it tells of a hunter named Rainsford who got stranded on Ship-Trap Island. If students struggle with locating a sentence, here are some examples: The weasel lives in necessity and we live in choice, hating necessity and dying at the last ignobly in its talons I remember muteness as a prolonged and giddy fast, where every moment is a feat of utterance received If you and I looked at each other that way, our skulls would split and drop to our shoulders. If teachers assign this essay for homework, they could have a writing workshop the following day, where students provide feedback to their classmates regarding their essay. I would like to live as I should, as the weasel lives as he should. stalks his pray. Accurate and skillful modeling of the reading provides students who may be dysfluent with accurate pronunciations and syntactic patterns of English. Obedient to instinct, he bites his prey at the neck, either splitting the jugular vein at the throat or crunching the brain at the base of the skull, and he does not let go. The second essay called "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. And I suspect that for me the way is like the weasel's: open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will. 15 I missed my chance. Furthermore, there will be details explaining the evidence and it will be supporting the theme., Emma Lynne Rosser wasnt always the shy type of girl, shes confident since taking journalism and when it comes to communicating with other people. R r : Annie Dillard - Living Like Weasels - Grades 11-12 Learning Objective: The goal of this four-day exemplar is to give students the opportunity to use the reading and writing habits theyve been practicing on a regular basis to discover the rich language and life lesson embedded in Dillards text. People take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedienceeven of silenceby choice. The following stories vividly illustrate the instinctual nature of weasels to hold on no matter what, hinting at the final paragraphs, where Dillard encourages her reader to live like a weasel and choose a life that is worth holding onto. While many questions addressing important aspects of the text double as questions about syntax, students should receive regular supported practice in deciphering complex sentences. Dillard is showing that everyone see and picture thing differently from others. (Q13) In paragraph 15, Dillard imagines going out of your ever-loving mind and back to your careless senses. What does she mean by careless in that sentence, and how is that reflected in the rest of the paragraph? I come to Hollins Pond not so much to learn how to live as, frankly, to forget about it. The way that everyday. As students move through these questions and reread Dillards Living Like Weasels, be sure to check for and reinforce their understanding of academic vocabulary in the corresponding text (which will be boldfaced the first time it appears in the text). He was ten inches long, thin as a curve, a muscled ribbon, brown as fruitwood, soft-furred, alert. This correlates to everyone on Earths predetermined fate and the problems that an individual could face when greed overcomes their needs, even when it is for a better or worse life. The commanding officer gives Lieutenant Dunbar the horse he rode on in the line of fire and offers Dunbar his choice of posting. But that is not the question. Sometimes he lives in his den for two days without leaving. Dillard compares the life of a wild weasel to the life of humans. Incontrovertibly, one of the first things one may notice upon reading the work, is the use of highly explicit imagery connecting her thoughts and ideologies. Dillard, instead of pondering for ages as she did with the weasel, decided to flee before she could muddle over her thoughts. Teachers should circulate and perform over the shoulder conferences with students to check comprehension and offer commentary that could lead to on-the-spot revision of their translation of Dillards ideas. Describe what is meant by being "stunned into stillness" drawing on evidence from paragraph 10. In one specific instance, an eagle was shot down, and on its neck was a dry weasel skull, still clamped shut on the eagles neck. My final takeaway, Life is a blank slate waiting to be drawn upon or left blank depending on our internal perspective of the world around us (68). What instances in the text show a display of weasels being "obedient to instinct"? More than 80,000 otters - over 90% of the . Now, in summer, the steers are gone. In Living like Weasels, Annie Dillard, through an encounter with a weasel, explores the contrast between human reason and animal instinct. As the class stares at her, she overcomes this nervousness and takes control of the situation. To live without religion would be a life not worth living. A weasel doesn't "attack" anything; a weasel lives as he's meant to, yielding at every moment to the perfect freedom of single necessity. I'd never seen one wild before. She is one of the few characters who can be identified through several viewpoints. The man could in no way pry the tiny weasel off, and he had to walk half a mile to water, the weasel dangling from his palm, and soak him off like a stubborn label. The whale was an example of a person that lived much slower and eventually left to feel more secluded and away. A weasel is a creature of action and instinct. meaning: the claw of a bird of prey (n.) related words: talus . The man could in no way pry the tiny weasel off, and he had to walk half a mile to water, the weasel dangling from his palm, and soak him off like a stubborn label 1. ! " (Q1) What features of a weasels existence make it wild? What would your advice be? What comparisons does Dillard make to describe the weasel in paragraph 8? $ $ " ! I would like to live as I should, as the weasel lives as he should. However, he refuses to get it amputated and attempts suicide by riding his horse through a line of fire during war. She saw small subtleties, and she wants students to see them too, for these are the details that will eventually bring her message together. The process of journaling brings to the fore the tension that Dillard is exploring in her essaychoosing to live like a weasel (in the moment and unreflective) while writing about that choice (in a highly reflective and self conscious way). 17 I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. I was stunned into stillness twisted backward on the tree trunk. Print., Annie Dillard ' Living Like Weasels" Summary and Response. Then even death, where you're going no matter how you live, cannot you part. What is the effect of using this many comparisons instead of one or two? "he had to walk half a mile to water, the weasel dangling from his palm, and soak him off like a stubborn label". I waited motionless, my mind suddenly full of data and my spirit with pleadings, but he didn't return. In summary, the author imposes that with weasels, much more freedom is granted through instinctual living, rather than as humans, who live with choices. Louises limp becomes obvious because she is nervous. y z 8d 7$ 8$ H$ ]8^gd>: m$ d ^gd>: m$ 8d ]8^gd>: m$ ]^gd>: m$ $ d 7$ 8$ H$ gd>: m$ 4 d 7$ 8$ H$ gd>: m$# gd>: m$ # ; K . I come to Hollins Pond not so much to learn how to live as, frankly, to forget about it. Reread lines 32-49 to identify instances of juxtaposition and explain how the images suggest a contrast between broader ideas. he had to walk half a mile to water, the weasel dangling from his palm, and soak him off like a stubborn label a man shot an eagleand found the dry skull of a weasel fixed by the jaws to his throat (Q3) At what point does the author start speaking about herself? As transcending, and as divine as some memories are, the fact of the matter is, they unfortunately dont last. She speaks about how weasels live in necessity while humans live through choice. As much as she would like to stay, it was her understanding that she belonged to a different world, just as the weasel belonged to another vastly different world, which caused her to leave without second thought. (Q8) What comparisons does Dillard make to describe the weasel in paragraph 8? ! In The Most Dangerous Game, the author uses imagery, setting, and characterization to suggest that instinct is better than reasoning. All in all, the details of a persons life is examined differently whether the person chooses to live the type of life where they look at the details or. Write a list of reasons you can give to your friend in order to be convincing. In the book, Wild, the author Cheryl Strayed made very interesting rhetorical appeals that both hurt and benefit her effectiveness to relate with the reader. Macdonald fancies herself a changeling born of another world, the world of man being nothing but a place of discomfort and pain, she sees her only chance at a reprieve to return to a place of swaying trees and impenetrable fog where goshawks rule the sky, where wildness dwells and reigns supreme. Good answers will identify the way in which natures uses humans and humans use nature; excellent answers will also include how Dillard, at the end of paragraph 6, employs manmade adjectives like upholstered and plush when describing the natural world. He ultimately ends up wanting to join them by being able to break into blossom (26-27), but he is unable to do so because he reached the maximum threshold of the union between humans and nature. like a stubborn label a fur pendant thin as a curve a muscled ribbon brown as fruitwood his facesmall and pointed as a lizards he would have made a good arrowhead Dillards point in describing the weasel through metaphors is two fold; first, she cannot see what it is like to be a weasel, as there is no conscious mind there comparable to a humans; second, she wants to describe the weasel vividly in order to make her ultimate comparison of what it would be like to be a person living like a weasel. His journal is tracks in clay, a spray of feathers, mouse blood and bone: uncollected, unconnected, loose leaf, and blown. We keep our skulls. He sleeps in his underground den, his tail draped over his nose. Annie Dillard - "Living Like Weasels" - Grades 11-12 (updated with Mini-Assessment) Learning Objective : The goal of this four-day exemplar, with a mini-assessment on day five, is to give students the opportunity to use the reading and writing habits they've been practicing on a regular basis to discover the rich language and life lesson . 8 Weasel! $ 9 " " " ! At first she believes that like her, the weasel is attempting to strike a meaningful exchange of introspective thoughts. People take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience-even of silence-by choice. Perhaps, people who try to dwell on the incomprehensible and the choices they have to make will end up being oblivious to their one necessity: survival. A yellow bird appeared to my right and flew behind me. Living Like Weasels Exemplar TextVocabulary1 A weasel is wild. Or did the eagle eat what he could reach, gutting the living weasel with his talons before his breast, bending his beak, cleaning the beautiful airborne bones? Dillard then moves on to tell about her first encounter seeing a weasel. The water lilies have blossomed and spread to a green horizontal plane that is terra firma to plodding blackbirds, and tremulous ceiling to black leeches, crayfish, and carp. The mystifying comparison between the daunting fear of nature and its impeccable beauty is in fact Olivers purpose., Nature captivates any human by its sheer beauty, however others may not see its beauty, rather its unnerving side. With these techniques, her whole impression of the essay establishes an adversary relationship between the natural world and the human world. Whatever avenue students choose, they must cite three pieces of textual evidence and clearly explain the connection between their evidence and how this supports their ideas on the essays title. Then even death, where you're going no matter how you live, cannot you part. 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